- Jun 11, 2012
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Hi guys,
I'm in that place where I'm in doubt whether I should upgrade my current system or choose to build a new one. I use my system mainly for video editing and color grading. I could either spend 500,- euro’s now or around 2000,- in a few months if a new rig is the only way to go. I'd rather not buy and build a new one for a while though.
I'm looking for an improvement particularly in playback speed. 1080p editing on my system works like a charm. But when it comes to 4K playback, my system just cannot give me a realtime smooth preview in 25fps in Sony Vegas, even in 1/2 or 1/4 resolutions. Regardless of preview resolution, playback sticks at 15-20 fps. Which I don’t understand as this usually dramatically increases fps.
I can however easily playback the clips in 4K full resolution on a media player like VLC. So this made me feel that I might not be lacking that much computing power to fix this? Rather maybe one or two specific parts on my rig. I also keep reading about the necessity of a lot of RAM but whenever I’m editing and I check my RAM usage I never even get close to the max of my 12GB. Should I still get more?
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4,2Ghz, 8-core (cooler: Spire TherMax II)
MB: Asrock 970 Extreme 4
RAM:Corsair XMS3 2x4GB 1600MHz PC3-12800 DDR3 - 1.65V - CL8 & Corsair XMS3 2x2 GB 1333 MHz PC3-10600 - CL9 - 1.5 V (12GB Total)
GPU: XFX Radeon 5850 Black Edition 1GB GDDR5
SSD: 120 GB Samsung 840 Series
HDD: Seagate 2x2TB 7200RPM SATA 6 GB/s & Seagate 1TB 7200 RPM, SATA 6 GB/s
PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w
Thanks in advance for any advice
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I'm in that place where I'm in doubt whether I should upgrade my current system or choose to build a new one. I use my system mainly for video editing and color grading. I could either spend 500,- euro’s now or around 2000,- in a few months if a new rig is the only way to go. I'd rather not buy and build a new one for a while though.
I'm looking for an improvement particularly in playback speed. 1080p editing on my system works like a charm. But when it comes to 4K playback, my system just cannot give me a realtime smooth preview in 25fps in Sony Vegas, even in 1/2 or 1/4 resolutions. Regardless of preview resolution, playback sticks at 15-20 fps. Which I don’t understand as this usually dramatically increases fps.
I can however easily playback the clips in 4K full resolution on a media player like VLC. So this made me feel that I might not be lacking that much computing power to fix this? Rather maybe one or two specific parts on my rig. I also keep reading about the necessity of a lot of RAM but whenever I’m editing and I check my RAM usage I never even get close to the max of my 12GB. Should I still get more?
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4,2Ghz, 8-core (cooler: Spire TherMax II)
MB: Asrock 970 Extreme 4
RAM:Corsair XMS3 2x4GB 1600MHz PC3-12800 DDR3 - 1.65V - CL8 & Corsair XMS3 2x2 GB 1333 MHz PC3-10600 - CL9 - 1.5 V (12GB Total)
GPU: XFX Radeon 5850 Black Edition 1GB GDDR5
SSD: 120 GB Samsung 840 Series
HDD: Seagate 2x2TB 7200RPM SATA 6 GB/s & Seagate 1TB 7200 RPM, SATA 6 GB/s
PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w
Thanks in advance for any advice
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