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System set up
Hi,
I was wanting some advice on some people in the know about my systems ability to run Adobe premier cs3 or cs4 before i buy the software.
This is my system
Dell dimension 5150
WindowXP sp2
Pentium 4 cpu 3.00ghz
1gb ddr2 ram
80gb hard drive (quite samll i know)Radeon x300 se 128mb Hypermemory and
I run cubase so m audio delta 2496 soundcard
Like I said I a want to buy premier for simple editing of footage and considering the creative suite 4 (Student edition) so would maybe think in the near future about after effects, flash and illustrator work.
Is the system I am running sufficient? If not
What improvements should i make? and to which parts?
Should i just get a full new pc?Any help will be greatly appreciated
Many thanks in advance
Mark
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3 Replies
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This is a very old system now. I’d look to purchasing a new system, upgrades won’t last long. This is a limited Hard Drive desktop too IDE is not sufficient SATA is the norm. Hard Drive size and speeds are crucial for Video Editing so the 80Gig will only fit the OS and the Adobe software. Video Editing is never recommended to run from the same physical drive (not on partitions) as the one holding the software. P4 was a great intel cpu, but way behind nowadays. Especially for CS4. You’ll be best to run with a Core2Duo minimum.
Work out your budget and repost with the kind of work you want to do, hours of video you expect to work with, DV or HDV footage?
– Jon 😉
Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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Hi Jon,
Thank you for your quick response 🙂
I am actually looking now for an interim solution until i can afford a new pc. Reason being i have the use of uni pcs until Jan and need a comp to do some editing work. The work will be nightclub footage that will be condensed from 2 hrs or so to 2 – 8 mins of footage.. See http://www.roughhill.co.uk homepage for an example)
I have tonight managed to get a free 4gb ram upgrade from a friend who had/has a 5150 and now has a new pc so it’s going spare (its the recomended upgrade from dell and works great apparently)
So i was thiking that now i can buy parts that would be transferable to a new pc build in the not so distant future.
Seagate 500GB Barracuda SATA II 3007 200rpm 32MB cache Hard Drive @ £40 and
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI-E OEM @ £100
Like i said both transferable to a new build pc (i believe???)
Would this be sufficient for the mean time in your opinion? And for the money is that the best graphics card to get to run cs4 software?
Again in advance many thanks for any advice/help
Regards
Mark Stacey
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Hey Mark,
The 4gb of RAM should help you out a descent amount from where you were, same with what you are getting for the future. Your rendering speeds will not be very fast at all, you would want to get a newer faster processor like Jon suggested. But if you are handling regular DV footage, what you have and about to have should do the trick.
Chaddix
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