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g45 chipset
Does the G45 Northbridge Chipset offer any advantages for Premium Pro CS4 (or After Effects), or is the P45 a better alternative?
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Some more information:
I’m building 26 machines for a classroom setting. I’ve read that the G45 chipset works with H-264 streams (as well as MPEG-2). If Premiere Pro can take useful advantage of this, it would eliminate the expense of providing 26 separate graphics cards. These students aren’t going to be doing anything fancy–no multi-cam, multi-stream projects–just the basics.
Gigabyte and Intel offer mATX mobos with G45/ICH10R chipsets, which would allow for small footprint workstations. Now, I know these boards are designed/positioned more for the Home Theatre markets.
But—If PP CS4 can take advantage of the on-board graphics, and it provides some speed/efficiency edge, then I can save $$ (and space and heat) by skipping the added graphics cards, and transfer those funds into faster Duo 2 Quad (Q6600) CPUs.
So, my question is: Can PP CS4 make use the on-board graphics of the G45 Northbridge, or should I step across to the P45, and fill the graphics card slot?
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