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Making choices – Q6600, Q6700 or Q8200?
I am in the midst of upgrading (seems like I have been saying that for a while). The prices, surprisingly have gone up since I have been waiting, but not much I can do about that.
I want to upgrade from my Dual Core to a Quad Core for use with NLE’s and with AE. Right now I am running on an AMD 5000+ BE. I have been using AE to work on some project with 2.5D and it is very slow to render and motion blur is next to impossible to use.
What does AE really look for in a system?
Presently I have 8 gig of RAM and an ASUS P5Q-E motherboard and 8gig of RAM DDR2 sitting in a box ready to be put together. Now I need the CPU.What is a good choice?
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[David Del] “What does AE really look for in a system?”
this is generally the order of importance for after effects:
- processing power — both cpu speed and number of cores
- ram — cs3 and up can use as much as 4gb per core, 2gb/core is highly recommended
- drive speed — you’d like to have a fast drive array on a separate drive bus from the main/boot drive for your media/renders, something like sata2 raid but even firewire is ok… as ae gets more adept at using multiple cores, the drive is becoming more of a data bottle neck particularly if using hd clips when compositing. having a separate drive bus for your media drive will allow you to enable disk caching to the main drive to help in rendering, otherwise you’ll get a performance hit if you enable it.
- graphics card — personally i don’t put much faith in a gpu helping much in ae (i usually turn opengl off), but more and more effects are tapping into the gpu, so it’s worth mentioning.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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Thanks, that is a great place to start.
Any other suggestions? -
I have a Q6600 and its good but not too pricey
However I think it is better to consider your GPU too
What graphics card are you using ?
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