[Eric Richner]

[Peter Garaway] “While you wait for the release check out this video demoing some of the new features in 7.1

https://vimeo.com/76726030

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro”

It’s like you guys added another 3 inches to glass at the candy store and setup lawn chairs outside for us to sit in.

[Eric Richner]

This may be what you are looking for:

https://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F4U055

$299

[Eric Richner]

Thank you for the advice regarding the RAM and which disks to utilize.

My biggest issue is staying within my budget, but if planned right, I will be able to get them most out of it.

Here are some links regarding using Graphics Cards in the new CS5 Premiere:

GTX 480 performance in Adobe Premeire Pro CS5

You can essentially use any GTX 240 and up card with more than 768mb Video RAM; all you have to do is apply this simple hack:

Premiere CS5 – Mercury GPU Acceleration on the cheap

Which works these cards:

GeForce GT 240
GeForce GTS 240
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 275
GeForce GTX 285m
GeForce GTX 295
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GTX 480

So for $229 I got myself a 1GB GTX 460 and used the hack and BAM the Mercury Engine works like a charm.

[Eric Richner]

Yea, thats the one bottleneck I can tell off the back. Unfortunately there are no AMD motherboards that can support 24gb of RAM with USB3 and SATA 6gb/s built-in right now, the only ones with that technology available support a maximum of 16GB of RAM.

I am about to upgrade my motherboard with one that does have SATA 6gb/s and USB 3.0 built-in ($109), add 2x 4GB (8GB) 1600 RAM ($239), and get an all-in-one water cooler CORSAIR H70 ($107).

That’ll set me back around $470ish with tax and shipping. Currently have only $500 left in my budget of $7,000 for all the new equipment I’ve purchased to start up my own production company.

PS If anyone is interested in buying a Quad-Core 2.6ghz AMD CPU + Aftermarket Cooler/Fan, Motherboard, and 4GB performance ram; let me know 🙂