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April 8th, 2006, 08:17 PM | #1 |
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Help me choose- Which new pc for HDV editing.
I have an immediate need to pick up a faster pc for HDV video editing
to fit into my already exisiting standard definition digital video post-production suite incl. Premiere Pro 1.5 & Encore and soon Aspect HD from Cineform. I like Dell's and have great experience with the three I own, so am looking at the Dell Outlet for the best and cheapest basic dual core system with Win XP SP2 to get me started quickly. Most of the available inventory look like XPS 400 models, and some XPS 600 models which are more expensive. My question- What is the significant differences between a Dual core Pentium D 820, 830 and 840 models versus the Pentium D at the same clock speed respectively with the 920, 930, and 940 designations? Is it worth paying more for the latter to do HDV editing? Anything else I should watch out for? |
April 9th, 2006, 09:24 AM | #2 |
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Dual Opteron...
You could take a look at the AMD opteron dual-core machines - the processors in the 200 series.
Right now AMD is the most bang for the buck, have a look at the price graphs... http://www.pricescan.com/graphs/grap...&ItemNo=168770 AMD slashed prices a few months ago... I would recommend a system based on a AMD Opteron dual-core today. Don't know if you build your computers yourself, but if you do - find a motherboard with an on-board RAID SATA controller and put two 300GB disks in RAID0 configuration - this will give you more or less double datarate from the drives (but only 300GB space..) - this is a very good thing when editing HDV. And then one normal boot/system disk, and then you are up and running with a very good HDV edit station. Good luck /magnus
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I built a computer last year based on a Pentium D 830 processor and it works okay for HDV editing with Canopus Edius Pro, but I wish it had a little more horsepower. Take a look at the following speed test results and see if they help you any...
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.ht...=67&model2=202 |
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