Anthony Atkielski
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Sony Support has reproduced this problem and has told me that it will be forwarded to the development team, so perhaps it will eventually be fixed (although no commitment was made by Sony).
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I agree with Stephen: 380 watts is dramatically underpowered for anything that is going to come close to doing any video editing work. A very simple PC that just does basic e-mail and Web surfing could get away with it; but it’s hard to imagine any usable configuration for video editing that could get by on so little power.
I hadn’t seen the part about it crashing immediately; that does indeed tend to exclude overheating.
An overloaded power supply can do bad things to the rest of the machine, so don’t delay in getting more power. You can just remove the PSU and replace it with a more powerful one and that should be fine.
PSUs consume only the power needed to run the PC, so getting an overpowered PSU won’t cost you any more in terms of operating costs. Remember that some CPUs can consume 125 watts while operating at 100%, and some GPUs require more than double that amount.
PC manufacturers use the cheapest stuff they can get away with. I built my last few PCs myself. That way you get exactly what you want, no more and no less. You don’t necessarily save money, but the money you spend is better spent than with an off-the-shelf machine.
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A system crash during a test like Prime implies overheating problems, a CPU hardware failure, or a PSU failure or overload. It tends to exclude problems with Vegas, device drivers, disk drives, or the dreaded Microsoft .NET.
Open the case and verify that all fans are running (including CPU, PSU, and GPU or disks if applicable). Turn off the computer and disconnect the power cord and blow out any dust in the case with a can of compressed air. Add up all the power requirements of all the components in your computer and make sure they don’t exceed 80%-90% of the rated power output of your power supply.
If it’s not overheating or an overloaded power supply, and given that you’ve tested all the RAM and it works, the CPU would be the next suspect. CPUs usually don’t fail unless they overheat, but it’s remotely possible.
In all of these cases, I’d expect other CPU-intensive tasks to crash the system, too. But there aren’t many things that are more CPU-intensive than video editing or video games, so it may be that you have nothing else on the system that puts the same load on it.
A blue screen or spontaneous reboot could be a software issue. If the machine simply freezes solid, it could be software or hardware.
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Well, hopefully Sony isn’t going to tell me to spend another $600 on Vegas Pro just to fix a bug.
It’s not a huge, huge deal, but since I have some experience with typography and electronic publishing, it just peeves me whenever I see non-typographic quotation marks. Fortunately, I don’t think there are too many cases where you absolutely have to have quotation marks in titles. I was thinking in particular of music credits, where typically you’d put the song title in quotes, but there are alternatives, such as typeface or font changes.
I hope that Sony will treat it as a bug and fix it sometime in the future (but maybe by then I’ll have saved up enough for Vegas Pro).