[Martin Hoefner]

Sounds right and I am looking at a i7 2600 machine with 8 Gb Ram
now, I installed Vegas Pro 11 on my laptop with Vista SP2 today and am blown away by the rendering speed of that compared to my stationary
machine! The laptop has a dual core T5670 1.8 Ghz CPU but it still
renders i1080 AVCHD at twice the time of the video, (as compared to surely 7-8 times the video length with my stationary running Vegas HD Platinum 11 on XP Pro.) And the i7 rig ought to do this job very much faster still…

[John Rofrano] “Vegas is very good with more cores so I would recommend the i7-2600 quad cores over the i5 dual cores. As David pointed out, you need to also configure them with enough memory. The rule-of-thumb for servers is 2GB/core. That means if you have a 4 cores you should have 8GB of memory. I’ve seen people misconfigure their machines, for example, with 4 cores and 2GB of memory which is only 512MB per core which is hardly enough for video work. Ultimately a Hex core with 12GB of memory would be even better.”

[Martin Hoefner]

Thanks for great replies guys and this pretty much confirms what I thought, I´m considering getting one or two new machines dedicated
for rendering.

Any thoughts on what CPUs are the business for video rendering today? I´m looking at the available Intel i5-2500/i7-2600 machines right now.

Martin

[Martin Hoefner]

I run Vegas Movie Platinum 11 (32 bit) on Windows XP Pro SP3 with no problem whatsoever and have been doing the same with Vegas 7, 9 and 10.

So apart from the possibility that it might or might not be faster or more efficient on newer OS´s there is in no problem in doing so!