[Dave Osbun]

Did you just do a new/fresh install, or an update to an already installed version? What version of Vegas? Did you enter the serial number in or are you using a demo version?

[Dave Osbun]

I wonder if your video card drivers might be the cause of this issue. Do you have the latest Radeon drivers (ver. 13.1)? If you do, maybe you’ll want to try the latest beta drivers, which were released yesterday (13.2). Here’s the link, if you’re running Windows 7:
https://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

Intel i5 3570K Ivy Bridge 3.40GHz quad core
Asus P8Z77V-LK
16gb RAM
ATI Radeon HD7850 2gb
Crucial M4 SSD + Seagate Barricuda 7200rpm
Windows 7 Pro 64

[Dave Osbun]

Give Sony Creative Software a call. They were easily able to find me from when I originally registered, although my Vegas software was many versions newer than yours.

Their # is 800-577-6642.

[Dave Osbun]

Corsair makes quality products. I installed one of their power supplies in the system I just built over Christmas.

[Dave Osbun]

If the system you are looking at has extra physical space for an additional hard drive, it would be MUCH CHEAPER to buy a 7200rpm sata hard drive and install it yourself. Most laptops have panels on the underside, or trays that slide out the front, for installing extra hardware. I swapped the hard drive out of my mother’s laptop and it took about 2 minutes.

[Dave Osbun]

So are you saying that the laptop ONLY has a 64gb SSD drive? After the OS install and antivirus software, you aren’t going to have much room for anything else. Most hardware ‘experts’ recommend a minimum of 120gb. I’ve never ran programs off an external drive, only used it for storage. It’s probably only going to cost you around $50 (if that!) to bump up to 120 or 128gb SSD drive, which is lower than the price of any external eSATA drive.

If the system you are buying doesn’t have a secondary internal hard drive, I think you’re making a big mistake.

Dave

Intel i5 3570K Ivy Bridge 3.40GHz quad core
Asus P8Z77V-LK
16gb RAM
ATI Radeon HD7850 2gb
Crucial M4 SSD + Seagate Barricuda 7200rpm
Windows 7 Pro 64

[Dave Osbun]

I don’t think your power calculation is correct. A 450 watt power supply is mainly used for very basic system (ie- no video card, one hard drive, etc). You are way too small on the power supply! I’m surprised your system isn’t experiencing any crashes.

This is the only item i’d replace in your system. Everything else is fine. Do you think your system is underpowered??

Dave

Intel i5 3570K Ivy Bridge 3.40GHz quad core
Asus P8Z77V-LK
16gb RAM
ATI Radeon HD7850 2gb
Crucial M4 SSD + Seagate Barricuda 7200rpm
Windows 7 Pro 64

[Dave Osbun]

Are you wanting to do mono audio?

[Dave Osbun]

Stephen,
I did read about the new Intel i7 processors and their integrated graphics architecture. I’m not too sure about their claim (like you) about it being able to completely replace PCIe graphics cards. If the integrated graphics allows you to ‘borrow from’ the system RAM, it will have a detriment on system performance if, for example, the system has 8gb RAM and you allocate 25% of that to graphics. Plus, what if you wish to run dual-displays, or even 3 displays? For the casual user integrated graphics will be fine, but I don’t see add-on graphics cards becoming obsolete anytime soon.

[Dave Osbun]

You might want to look at the website https://www.tomshardware.com. This is a superb ‘techie’ site that does regular comparisons of different types of hardware. When they test processors, they do a few different tests that are of importance to video editors. Their latest test showed that the Intel i5 3570k performed better than many of the i7 processors. This is because the 3570k uses Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge architecture. The only processors that were faster were the latest i7 processors (using Ivy Bridge instead of Sandy Bridge).

Here is the link to the ‘meat’ of the comparison:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-performance-comparison,3370-15.html

This should help you with your CPU choice.

Personally, I would never go with integrated graphics processing.

Regarding RAM- since it’s so cheap nowadays, why even consider running less than 8gb? Especially since you want a laptop, which offers minimal upgrade options.

Dave