I realize that I am late to the dance here, but for my video editing machine, I always build it myself and do minor updates as I need to and a major update (rebuild) about every two years. My old video machine becomes my new audio machine. My experience is a little different in that careful tracking has shown me that no matter what I do the software (Premiere Pro CS6 and AE) simply never demands more than about 14 Gigs of memory. I have 32 , but I have never seen it used. I've come to believe that 16 is adequate for just about anything. Hard drive speed (SSD) and the GPU speed both matter a great deal. I use a RAID approach with SSDs and the best graphics card I can currently afford. Right now I have dual 580s with 3 gigs of DDR5 each. The Mercury engine seems to love them. AE works in real time about 95 percent of the time. Without spending insane amounts of money, I think this is the best performance I can get. My machine prices out at about 2200 dollars and gives me 98 percent of the performance I could get with a 12,000 dollar machine.
I'm happy with it. VL On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Rieni <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > Hi Guys, > > I need to replace my 2005 HP PC with something > new and I almost purchased this one: > > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009T7J9D4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE > > This is an Asus which has all the good specs, but it can have 8GB RAM > maximum. > > Then I did some reading on the web and found that > some claim that 8GB is not enough for editing video with Premiere. > > So I started to look for components for building > my own system, it would look like this: > > motherboard > < > http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=mainboard&articleId=1003832&kind=pcBuilder>MSI > > Z77A-GD80 > processor > < > http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=cpu&articleId=965957&kind=pcBuilder>Intel® > > Core i7-3770 > Graphics card > < > http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=graphicscardPCIe&articleId=1012954&kind=pcBuilder>MSI > > N620GT-MD2GD3/LP > Cooler fan: be quiet! Shadow Rock PRO > RAM > < > http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=ram&articleId=1011703&kind=pcBuilder>Corsair > > 32 GB DDR3-1600 Quad-Kit > SSD 500GB > < > http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=harddiskSSD&articleId=1037875&kind=pcBuilder>Samsung > > MZ-7PD512BW > 3TB hard drive Seagate ST3000DM001 > Blu-ray > < > http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=bdr&articleId=943604&kind=pcBuilder>LG > > BH10LS38 > Power supply > < > http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=powerSupply&articleId=1012052&kind=pcBuilder>be > > quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 550W > case > < > http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=pccase&articleId=942558&kind=pcBuilder>Antec > > Performance One P-280 > OS Windows8 Pro 64bit > > All very nice but this set will cost me 2000 euro > which is 3 times the price of the Asus computer. > > The MSI motherboard has a Firewire and > Thunderbolt connector which is nice but not > really neccessary (I can also transfer files from > my Apple to my PC over my network) and the MSI > has tons of PCI connectors which I'll never use, > so basically I'm only buying this set because I > want more than 8GB RAM. Having tons of RAM and > SSD is nice and everything will work a bit faster > but I'm getting an old farm and with the age, > comes patience, I don't mind having to wait 30 > minutes for a video to render, I can just do > something else in the meantime, or sit outside > staring at my trees while enjoying a beer or coffee. > > So my question to you guys is... would I be > allright with this cheaper Asus for the next 3 > years, able to work with Photoshop and Premiere > in CS5? That's the version I'll stick with or a > while. Is 8GB enough RAM or not? Another option I > have is to buy the Asus now and replace it's > motherboard with one that can have 16GB RAM. > Strangely all the Asus motherboards that have the > same chipset as this PC and can be bought > individually can have 16GB of RAM so the > motherboard used in this PC must be a very exotic > one, or crippled on purpose, but those > alternative Asus motherboards cost less than 100 euros. > > Thanks, > > Rieni > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
