Dave Osbun
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The Ivy Bridge processors offer faster rendering than the Sandy Bridge CPUs. I haven’t read much on the new Haswell CPU (I don’t even know if it’s available for sale yet).
Since you’re building a new system, get yourself a SSD hard drive, 512mb minimum, for your system drive. Spend the extra few $$ of the Samsung 840 Pro for your system drive. You can spend less on additional system drives, if you want SSD, like the Curcial M4 (which is superb and cheap).
Regarding the motherboard, any brand name will be fine. I would spend the extra money and make sure it has four 6gb/s SATA ports (SATAIII). Make sure all the hard drives you plop in are 6gb/s as well. Most new drives are.
I don’t think you have to worry about the video card, since the new CPU is where you’ll get your speed improvement.
16gb RAM is where I would go, so you’re thinking is good here.
Dave
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What are you rendering to? It doesn’t really matter what anyone else is getting, as most of us are using the Pro version of Sony Vegas.
You’re not going to get blazing fast render speeds since your footage is 3D, and you admittedly have a computer system that is not equipped for ultimate performance.
If you’re looking for faster renders, you need to upgrade to an Intel i7 Ivy Bridge processor at the very minimum.
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Are you trying to do this effect as a transition, between two events?
Dave
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+1 on what Steve said. Lower the resolution. With that resolution the video contains too much ‘stuff’ and your hardware can’t handle it. No reason to have the resolution that high. I bet if you try it at 1920 x 1080 it’ll be MUCH smoother!
Dave
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With your quoted budget, absolutely no reason not to go with dual Xeon processors. Another important factor for absolute performance is making sure your motherboard of choice has AT LEAST 4 6gb/s SATAIII connections. That way each of your high-speed hard drives is being utilized at its maximum available performance.
Dave
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Aren’t those areas Region 1? Google will be your friend on this question.
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I have only 1 startup program: antivirus software
You do not need to have any other program ‘pre-start’ on boot up. Uncheck everything except your antivirus software. Even though you don’t have too many running at startup, a few of those may be resource suckers.
Dave
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What John said is key: a HARDWARE RAID
You’ll want whatever box that you go forward with to have an integrated RAID controller. Never use software-based RAID, as it’ll never perform as expected (even with today’s incredible SSD drives).B&H should have a decent selection to choose from, with competitive pricing.
Dave
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Quite possibly one of the eSata cables became loose during transport? I’d reinstall all cables and see if it shows up.
Also- are these drives striped together? If so, then they will show up as one drive.
Dave
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My opinion: integrated graphics (where the GPU is built into the CPU) is strictly for basic computing use. It’s fine for my retired mother who just uses her computer to read cooking websites and read e-mails. Serious computer users should have a dedicated graphics card. Even a $90 graphics card will be better than integrated graphics.
If you really like the i5 Dell (personally, I wouldn’t buy it), you could always install an aftermarket nVidia or Radeon graphics card (and disable the integrated GPU in the system BIOS).
Dave