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August 12th, 2011, 08:48 AM
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Is the i7 CPU a bottleneck?
Or is the bottleneck in your editing systems more to do with the RAM and/or the storage throughput?
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August 13th, 2011, 12:45 AM
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Re: Is the i7 CPU a bottleneck?
And is it better to spend the money on 6 processing cores in an i7 processor than just the usual 4 cores?
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August 15th, 2011, 04:11 PM
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Re: Is the i7 CPU a bottleneck?
Which NLE app did you have in mind, Andrew?
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August 15th, 2011, 10:27 PM
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Re: Is the i7 CPU a bottleneck?
The full Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, combined with a Matrox MXO2 and an assortment of PPro/AE lovin' plugins including Magic Bullet.
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August 16th, 2011, 10:17 PM
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Re: Is the i7 CPU a bottleneck?
In the long run everything turns into a bottleneck. The different apps in CS use resources differently. AE needs a lot of RAM, but Premiere needs a good CPU-GPU tag team. There's nothing wrong with maxing out your RAM at 24GB and having a 4-core i7.
That leaves your storage - RAID or otherwise. Working with and playing back heavy uncompressed files will always be slower, no matter what system you have (unless maybe a supercomputer).
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August 17th, 2011, 03:51 AM
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Re: Is the i7 CPU a bottleneck?
I think the only time you want to bother with running uncompressed is when you're doing chromakey work, etc. I'll happily run with HDV and AVCHD on my RAID5 storage.
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