Vegas 10 – Building a Computer to Spec

[David Shirey]

[Lance Bachelder] “As far as CPU’s and display cards – please stick with Intel and nVidia – don’t fart around with AMD/ATI stuff for Vegas or CS5! And Avid won’t even launch on an ATI card.”

Well for editing I’d definitely stick with Nvidia, but that doesn’t mean you have to use Intel. Bill’s original recommendation of the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T is good. I’m currently using one at the office and it’s nice. At home I have an i7 920 and that’s great too. I’ve never had a single problem running an Nvidia card on an AMD motherboard, or an Intel one for that matter. Unless you’re going for a budget PC I would stick to standalone cards an not onboard video.

[Bill Mash]

System recommendation is on the last page.

https://www.guru3d.com/article/phenom-ii-x6-1055t-1090t-review/1

~Just because you can doesn’t mean you should~

[Davd Keator]

I just wrote an article comparing everything that I had.

Spec Computer:

1: FASTEST quad core you can afford. Gigaherts is where it’s at with Vegas.
Vegas Seems to use 4 cores to the max. More cores just helps multitasking while rendering. I have the 980x with 12gigs. I render two files at a time just to use most of my computer resources!
2: 8 to 12 gigs or ram. Vegas likes 6 gigs these days in 64bit land.
3: 2 HD’s One for your System/boot and one for your work projects.
4. Get a dock station or use portable 2.5″ HD to save your clients work on when finnished.
5: Video cards for multiple monitors 3 monitors is GREAT! 1920×1080.
6: CUDA – SMUDA, I’ve tested the AVC encoding boost, can’t find it on my GTS 250 with 1gig ram. I get 2-5% GPU usage, no effect on encoding times… must be the transfer lag to the cuda processors.
SONY VEGAS must actually change their source code on their rendering engine no updates in ages!

I’m not a PPro user, so I just tried it for kicks, the CUDA hack to allow my GTS 250 worked fine, the hack allowed me to scrub and watch the playback almost as well as Vegas does with out nay special hardware or reworked code. Vegas beats Adobe most of the time… I just love their MediaCoder..I use that in the back ground while working in Vegas…
7: CASE – Who cares, one that holds your componants – I like the Antec specials.
8: Blu-ray, they all blow, constant firm wware updates required everytime you use them…yet they all work, just anoying…

Hope I helped…