New computer

[Brian Louis]

I’d get at least 8gigs of memory, and I’d loose the 9800gt as its getting long in tooth, and get something with more cuda cores like a Fermi 470 which also has faster video ram(DDR5)

[Nick Leigh]

I am now going to build a custom computer from scratch. I am wondering a couple things before I choose my specs…

Will I see a big difference between the AMD Phenom II 3.2 GHz X6 and X4?

I would like to buy a 150GB 10000RPM Hard drive as my system drive and then 2 1TB hard drives set up with raid 0, will that be sufficient? Or will I not see a difference if I go without the 10K RPM drive?

I will be installed 8GB of ram (2 x 4GB) with the plan to add more if needed.

On the adobe site the say to use GeForce GTX 470 or the 285 but will the GTX 460 work? Or will I see a big difference using the 470 or 285?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Nick

[Brian Louis]

[Nick Leigh] “Will I see a big difference between the AMD Phenom II 3.2 GHz X6 and X4?”
Particularly with rendering.

[Nick Leigh] ” will I not see a difference if I go without the 10K RPM drive?”
The 10k drive will load the system and apps fast, once loaded into memory it doesn’t matter, also will speed up virtual memory but not by much, if there is enough ram it doesn’t matter too much.

[Nick Leigh] “but will the GTX 460 work? Or will I see a big difference using the 470 or 285?”
If you use the hack: https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm4
just be sure you have good cooling, there are a few dual fan cards, I use the hack with a GTX260 and have compared it with a quadro 3800 and also a 465, and the only one that made a difference was the 465 and that was because of the DDR5 which the 460 has, read the article, also till they are using all the cores spending money on high end card for a editor that basically uses 100cores and the rest for the card mostly for display is iffy

[Nick Leigh]

Hey Brian,

Thanks for your help. I have just purchased the following from Newegg.com today.

Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T(3.2GHz)
Processor Main Features: 64 bit Six-Core Processor
Cache Per Processor 6 x 512KB L2 Cache
Memory: 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333
System Drive: 60GB OCZ Agility 2 Internal SSD
Hard Drive: 2 x 1TB SATA 6.0Gb/s 7200RPM HDD in Raid 0
Optical Drive: LG 10x Blu-ray Burner SATA
Graphics: Palit GeForce GTX 470(Fermi) 1.25GB PCI Express
Audio Sound card: Integrated
Power Supply: 650W
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD PRO
Chipset: AMD 890GX
CPU Type: Phenom II X6
CPU Speed: 3.2GHz
L2 Cache Per CPU: 6 x 512KB
L3 Cache Per CPU: 6MB
CPU Socket Type: AM3
Graphics Interface: PCI Express 2.0 x16
Memory Capacity: 8GB DDR3
Memory Speed: DDR3 1333
Form Factor: DIMM 240-pin
Memory Spec: 4GB x 2
Memory Slot Available: 4
HDD Interface: SATA 6.0/Gb/s && SATA 3.0/Gb/s
LAN Chipset: Integrated
LAN Speed: 10/100/1000Mbps
Front USB: 2
Front IEEE 1394: 1
Front Audio Ports: 2
Video Ports: 2 DVI, 1 HDMI
Rear USB: 6 x USB 2.0
Rear IEEE 1394: 1
Rear Audio Ports: 6 ports
S/P DIF: 2 port

So I should have the new computer built by the weekend with windows 7 installed. Can’t wait to get CS5 production installed after that.

Nick