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Need sage advice to buy right CS5 PC
Need help finding the right CS5 Prem Pro PC. Please help
Gents:
Based on recent developments, I’ve finally decided to have a PC specifically built to for an upcoming upgrade from Premiere Pro CS3.2 to CS5. Since I can’t build it myself, would you please be willing to offer some recommendations for online solutions that are: safe, reliable, reputable, reasonably priced, fair and offer some kind of a guaranty or warranty?
I’m thinking that a custom configured system from one of the major manufacturer would be overly pricey part per part and offer limited choices. My budget is roughly $1,000-1,200.
For parts, (considering I don’t want to spend $1,500 or $2,000 for a top of the line or upper end machine) please list in detail what combination would you choose if you were in my shoes that would meet the following goals/criteria:
It doesn’t have to have the best and speediest components, just be reliable, stable, yield smooth playback quality and render well at a reasonable speed. I’m not a power user by any means so it will receive moderate use, the CPU won’t be maxed out.
What questions should I have asked or important considerations that I should keep in mind when making my choice?
Another objective is not only to buy a full-fledged & dedicated CS 5 machine for myself but another unit with lesser firepower that my wife can use and also function as acceptable back-up in case something goes wrong with the first.
I noticed “Dell 7 days of deals” started today. I’m not yet attracted to what they have but wanted to just list the core specs of a couple of their “deal” systems and leave them to you experts to critique and offer suggestions as to what I should do, not do, why and steer me along the right path.
1)Studio XPS 7100: AMD Phenom II X4 945/ATI Radeon HD5670 1 Gig VRAM/8 gigs memory.
2)Studio 8300: i5-2300 @ 2.8ghz/ATI Radeon HD5450 1 gig VRAM/6 gigs ramAre ATI Radeon cards up to the demands of CS5 or are Nvidas card the way to go? How does one differentiate on card from the next within NVIDA?
I was wondering how a variation of or an upgrading of these key components would potentially fit my needs, expectations and budget. I had asked a similar question about 6 months ago however the parts market and choices has changed,
Thanks for any and all help offered. Please contribute and get this discussion started!
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2 Replies
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$1200 is a bit low for a decent Premiere Pro CS5 system with GPU acceleration: it must have one of the supported NVidia GPUs, or least one that has to be “hacked” for it, and the power supply must have enough juice to support such a GPU. The least expensive officially supported GPU is GTX-470, street price around $280; power supplies that support it – $100. Dell Studio desktops can’t support those cards.
If you look at integrated systems with GTX-470 included, they start at $1600 for base configurations (no monitors, no 2nd HDDs).
Without GPU acceleration, $1200 will get you a decent configuration with 8GB RAM and a mid-range CPU, but don’t expect it to be optimized for Premiere Pro performance.
Alex (DV411)
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Here is a thread discussing entry-level system configurations optimized for CS5:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/907873
HTH
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