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New hardware – is this a good choice?
I’m still having problems with Vegas rendering out of sync. Gary suggested it must be a hardware problem, as Vegas is pretty reliable in this regard. (I’m running Vegas 6 on a system with an AMD 1.8GHz processor.)
I’m looking at a hardware upgrade along with getting Vegas 7, and I’m hoping someone more knowledgeable about the guts of computers can advise me whether the following is a good choice of components:
Intel D946GZ Socket 775 mATX Motherboard
Intel Duo Core E6600 2.4 GHz 4M processor
2G DDR2 PC4200 RAM
Radeon X1550 512MB PCI-Express video card
Non-RAID 7200rpm SATA II drives (The second 500G drive partitioned into three segments, and dedicated to media capture. Partitioning will allow me to keep different projects on their own drive segments, and then allow formatting of just that segment when a project is completed.)I’m kinda on a budget here, and the above is available for around $1,600. Good deal to go with Vegas 7, or no?
John
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looks good to me
recently upgraded to similar system myself, self-built. don’t know your mobo, but mine (Asus P5B-E Plus) came with esata port, which oi reckons will be increasingly useful. Yes, one can get a PCI card for that, but my 2 PCI esata cards on the old system wouldn’t work with my external esata Raid 0, but this mobo handles the connection just fine
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I recently built a similar system. I would recommend the top of the line Intel ‘BX’ board. The extra 80 bucks for the better board will allow you to pop in a Quad-core chip in the future – this board has been absolutely stable so far… I’m running the e6600 chip for now btw.
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It’s good hardware…but Vegas will run just fine on much less capable systems…including systems with 1.8 GHz Athlon processors. The only difference will be that rendering will be slower, and you’ll see less realtime performance while editing.
I’ve never seen Vegas lose A/V sync during a render, so I can’t tell you whether it’s hardware, or your source material, or some software setting…but if your current system is properly set up, and Vegas is properly set up, it ought to work. What I’m saying is, don’t go out and buy a whole new computer system until you are SURE that the problem is with your existing hardware, and can’t be fixed.
Regards,
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Thanks, Doug. Vegas will print to tape in sync okay; it’s just the .avi file renders or DVD renders (through DVD Architect) that are out of sync. .avi files end up about 11 frames out of sync, DVDs in sync at the start, out of sync by the end. Source material is DVCam, in sync of course. What possible software setting would result in out of sync .avi files, but in sync print to tape? Gary Kleiner couldn’t think of one, which is why he suggested there could be a hardware glitch.
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