Ultimate Vegas Machine?

[Matthew Jeschke]

#3… I have not opened the CPU yet. Am considering exchanging it for the one you mentioned. I’m curious will this cause issue with the PCIe NVMe drive I got? From what I hear you saying it sounds like the processor may divide up bandwidth between the graphics card and any other PCIe devices including the NVMe drive.

… I’m thinking this old Radeon 5450 I have laying in my scrap pile would run a 4k monitor but not confident.

FYI ~ You’re awesome, and yes marketing SUCKS. They only tell you the wiz bang stuff that makes no difference, not what you really need to know. Years ago I designed processors in Graduate School. There’s so much information that never makes it to the marketing materials.

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[Matthew Jeschke]

Uh oh… Never mind, I just realized the processor you mentioned is $1000? ☹ If that’s really the case, I may have to wait 6 months until they are obsolete and then buy one ☺

My first editing machine was an old number crunching box from work. They were throwing it away. I was amazed at how well it worked for what it was. The processors were antiquated when I got it. I believe they were older AMD operteron processors. I had two processors with dual cores each. It worked extremely well for what it was. Unfortunately, it got taken out in a lightening storm ☹ When I built a newer system based on AMD FX processor setup it wasn’t much if any faster than the old antiquated setup I had.

Thanks again for your awesome help!

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Aaron Star]

The 5930 is a 6 core version that is half the price of the 5960, but it still has all the PCI lanes of the 5960.

[Matthew Jeschke]

All their model numbers, and suffixes, prefixes, and worthless spec sheets get confusing lol

Would this be the processor? I’m going to try and exchange mine.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117403

They put a K at the end of the model number ?

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Ole Kristiansen]

The K means that the processer has a unlocked mulitiplier and can easily overclocked to much higher frequencies !

[Matthew Jeschke]

Nevermind, I anwered my own question. I’m having computer problems will not let me view your old posts. You put the full model number in there, i7-5830K

Thanks!

PS. I cannot figure out how to edit or take down an old reply. Did they remove that feature form the form?

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I do Architectural Photograph & Cinematography as a part of being a Residential Real Estate Consultant.

Some of my work can be seen at,
https://www.youtube.com/keystoaz/
https://www.vimeo.com/matthewjeschke/
https://www.keystoaz.com/

PS. It\’s an excellent excuse to ride off what I love, Camera equipment 🙂

[Ole Kristiansen]

Hi Aaron Star

“If place two AMD GPUs in your system, you could leave one GPU with no monitors plugged into it. Then have all monitors plugged into the other GPU. With no monitors plugged in, Windows will not include that card in the Display system. That leaves the open card free of display overhead.

Inside Vegas, you can choose the free card as your OpenCL compute device under preferences.”

Can you show how to do and where in Preferences ?

Best,
Ole

[Aaron Star]

If you have more than one GPU that is capable of operating as a compute device, or what Vegas terms GPU acceleration, you can select from your GPUs by going to:

Options–>Preferences–>Video Tab–>Then use the drop down select your GPU.

Verify operation by using a GPU heavy FX like Min/max, and monitoring GPU load during playback.

If you have an AMD GPU. AMD makes a nice “system monitor” application that shows both CPU and GPU in one task manger. You can also use GPU-z, or Windows Performance Analyzer if you are feeling really geeky.

[Ole Kristiansen]

Hi Aaron

Thanks for the answer !

best,
Ole

[James Redmond]

Aaron, Thanks for all the great information! Your information about setting up a second graphic card just for rendering was amazing!

I am also considering rebuilding my system to speed up rendering in Vegas 13 (haven’t installed 14 yet). Generally I do a lot of editing then have several projects that need to be rendered. So I am always looking at ways to speed up the rendering.

Questions:

Thinking of the Radeon Pro WX-5100 graphic board for only rendering as you recommended. Would it work well with Radeon RX 480? I will use the 480 for display with 2 monitors. I currently have a GTX 970. Would that work or are you recommending both graphics card to be AMD?

I currently have a i7-5930k. Thinking of the i7-6950 with 10 cores instead of the i7-5960. Looks like it does 40 lane processing. Is it worth a 50% increase in price over the 6900k? Looks like it is a 15% increase in performance.

I have with 32 gigs of DDR4-2401 (1200 Mhz). How much ram would you recommend and what speed?

Currently have a Asus x99 Deluxe version 1 motherboard. Thinking of switching to the MSI Extreme Gaming Intel X99 LGA 2011 DDR4 USB 3.1 Extended ATX Motherboard (X99A GODlike Gaming ). Seems to have more USB 3.1, which is becoming pretty standard.

Thanks for all your advice! James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA