[Lee Hayward]

im actually now looking at building one myself, with some help of course from a friend, if i dont i will most likly go with ibuypower but building it myself i can get a power machine alot cheaper

[Lee Hayward]

yes ive been looking at ibuypower pcspecialist and other build your own pc websites, and im looking at a intel 2quad core 2.83ghz, 8gb ram 64bit vista base unit, no monitor and cheapest so far is around £540 , would you reccomend these sites they seem to come out quite a bit cheaper but i wonder why?

i prresume a quad core at 2.83ghz should be more than enough to carry out the task. what is overclocking, i have some basic info on it and it allows the processor to go higher thans it stated eg. 2.83ghz overclocked to 3.00ghz for a short period, is this correct.

[Lee Hayward]

youtube and burning to disc, in HD, just rendering to wmv in either 720p or 1080-60 template. videos around 10mins but complex with many clips(all in wmv) fxs, pictures, pngs… multiple songs, text.

so quad core at 2.66ghz thanks for that it should come handy the dell stuido 540 quad was only 2.33ghz but to play safe i might look for a quad core higher than 2.66ghz.. i just hope i dont get the same problem because then i would be stumped and have to put it down to sony pro vegas as many people are also getting these errors hopefully 9.0b is a fixes the issues.

[Lee Hayward]

well ive been looking around and i tried a programe which allow vegas to use more than 2gb ram but it didnt work, but ive read alot about 64bit pcs.

so im gonna stick with my laptop for personal uses and but a 64bit baseunit ( just the tower no monitor) and hook it up to my tv and use that as my monitor.

so im now looking for a 64bit quad core pc with 8gb ram(x64 bit will use all 8gb ram.)

and only install sony pro vegas 9.0a and will update when necessary

looking around the £400-500 margin.( only base unit/ tower)

dont know what manafacture i want, i like dell, cant afford HP workstation, any suggestions

what i cant understand is when i render my cpu usage goes to 100% but my ram/memory doesnt go past 2/2.5 gb out of 3gb which means it has more memory to use.

[Lee Hayward]

is there a decent quad core workstation for under £500(im gonna look around now), because thats pretty much my limit, also i would like to know more about the partion drives, what would you reccomend the partion drives to be and how do you do it, as its a little bit confusing.

[Lee Hayward]

to fix issue ive bought on a 7 day trial a dell studio 540 tower ( montior is my tv) to use it,its brand new, its quad core, 4gb ram Q4000 all at 2.33gHz, and exactly the same error message occurs, when open and rendering, my ram never goes past 2.gb out of 4.gb yet my cpu usage ( on both quad core pc and dual core laptop) goes through the roof to 100%, is it my footage? my fxs its edited well but not extremely edited like every clip, i really dont understand what the damn problem is, and i am extremely angry, i just have the urge to pick up the pc and through it through my window. any help.

on my quad core pc it occurs instantly
the laptop either instantly to 5 mins tops.

[Lee Hayward]

thanks for the reply,
ive been looking around and wow these laptops are definately out of my price range by a mile.
i dont get why my pc is playing up so i got all the files and put it on a brand new laptop straight out of the shop 3gb ram core duo, and exactly the same thing happens so ive came to the conclusion that sony pro vegas 9 takes up alot more memory than pro 8 and because of this, it cannot render in HD also this project has much mre FX’s to render and the footage is all prerendered in clips rather than raw files.
so im trying to compress it and send it off to someones quad core pc, but all the files needed comes to 2GB with 115 files in 1 folder which when compressed is still 2GB.
so i stumped and a very frustrated as this should of been done ages ago. but thanks for the replys i gonna look at some ‘cheap’ but powerfull desktops to render and use for editing and either keep my laptop or sell it.

any desktops you recommend for HD editng and rendering in pro 9.
i dont want any problems like my laptop because it is an extremefully frustraing thing.

[Lee Hayward]

i cant render still, i am thinking of buying a new laptop to handle this type of situation what would you reccoment im thinking of something along the lines of a laptop with 8gb ram and a quad core.

that sound good? because a quad core must have its benefits over a dual core when editing and rendering HD.

any websites and laptops you would think could be ideal for this, also for normal activtys such as browsing the web and photoshop…

[Lee Hayward]

thanks, today though i tried rendering back in normal (non HD) and it didnt work so now i cannot render at all, i am losing my mind, i will give this ago though.

if only i could send my project to someone, but its never that easy is it. haha(crys in anger)

thanks
lee

[Lee Hayward]

hi,thanks

i posted a new thread to get more responses and simply state that i cannot render in HD.

thanks for the information i have already tried rendering with the performance on and ‘pretties’ off and it didnt work.

i like the 4gb ready boost idea, is there any threads or sites you could give me so i can read up on it and maybe buy one.(what prices am i looking at here)
so what your saying this usb device is almost like ram when connected i can assgin an extra 4gb ram to my laptop giving me in laymen terms 7GB ram which should render it all together or have i got the wrong end of the stick.
if im right can i use it all the time or just when i need it i.e rendering,editing in sony pro vegas.

( i also tried rendering in 8 bit rather than 32 bit floating point but it made no change. )

thanks lee