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mid level PC built for AE and Premiere….. any suggestions??
So I’m in the market for a new PC but I want to build it myself and I have a budget of about 400 dollars. (funny huh) I would like it to be able to handle AE CS4, PS CS4, And premiere pro, and maybe be able to handle some games. I just basically need advice on what mobos ,CPUs, RAM, and video cards are good and whether or not to go with XP64 or VISTA64. I have a case, power supply, hard drives, and copies of vista64 and XP64.
I’m shooting for a good mobo and then deicent CPU, vid card, and RAM, that way I can just upgrade later. I’d like to go quad core but I’ve heard that AE doesn’t even use all of the cores?? I don’t know… I don’t really care if its AMD or Intel, as long as they can push the apps.
I built my own PC in 2003 when the barton first came out, and back then I could talk anyone’s ear off about mobos and CPUs and such. But nowadays im in somewhat in the dark, but I still understand the nerd speak.
I use this site a lot https://www.sharkyextreme.com/guides/WCPG/article.php/10705_3801021__3 and https://www.pricewatch.com/public/ So I know its almost possible.
So at this point any advice or people setups would be a great help.
Thanks in advance!!
J
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You shouldn’t take my answer as the complete answer to your question since I’m sure others more knowledgable will chime in and, personally, I think hardware changes too much day-to-day to suggest specific models … you’re probably better off to research yourself.
I would first caution that $400 is unlikely to get you a strong AE machine even though you have some parts already, but it seems you know that already.
Based on my personal experience and that of other editors I’ve known over the course of 20 years, I’d suggest at least match Adobe’s AE RAM specs, a good Nvidia video card (vs. ATI, which always seems to have more issues) and it’s hard to go wrong with an ASUS motherboard.
If you’re a pro and this is the machine that’ll make your livelihood, I’d recommend against even installing any games on your video/graphics workstation unlkess you’re talking about Pac-Man. However, if you’re just doing personal stuff and can afford extra time for troubleshooting your work apps, it should be fine.
I hope my generalities are helpful to some degree.
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I am registering an interest in the answers to this question.
To date, I have had a mixed experience with building a machine for Adobe Premier. Two machines were prepared both with about 2G memory and AMD Athlon 64 3200 processor. One machine worked well enough with Premiere CS4; the other would not. The machine that worked with CS4 was fine for SD but hopeless for HD.
The rules as gleaned but neither validated or endorsed seem to be:
Memory: Fast 800M DDR2 or better: at least 4G; 8G, 12G or 16G are progressively better.
OS: Vista 64 bit to allow more than 4G of memory. there are dark comments about 64 bit drivers for all sorts of devices.
Disk: sustained throughput of between 5 and 10M per second that can only be achieved by a Raid of at least two disks (Bit hard to believe as SATA II interface is 300M and disks at 7200 rpm with 32M cache give 50M/sec in bench marks)
CPU: Intel Dual E8500; Intel Quad Q9300. Apparently the quad is significantly better than the dual at “Rendering”
Graphics Card: nVidia 9800 GT 512M or even 1024 M
Mobo: Asus or Gigabyte seem to be recommended but I don’t know which models.
I’ve found it very difficult to quantify how much hardware grunt is required and it almost seems as if the latest and greatest hardware can be pushed to the point where it is not really adequate.
Well that’s the end of my limited research. Can anyone shed some light on a hardware set that will do the business without costing an arm and a leg?
Thanks in advance
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