Adobe Premiere CS5

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The graphics card is most important. The lowest end officially supported for various acceleration features is the GTX470 and I picked this version for memory size, speed and cooling:


EVGA GeForce GTX470 1280 MB DDR5 PCI-Express

If you search you will find ways to enable lower end graphics cards. High end gaming cards are wasted on CS5.

The lowest end Intel CPU officially supported is the Core 2 Duo, but Pentium Duo is said to work ok. There is a great speed up by multiple factors for faster cpu's like core I7.

As far as the motherboard, I am not aware of Adobe specs. However, the 1366 socket is still the highest performance, but is 3 years old. The 1155 is brand new and supports the newer core i7-2000k (or something like that) family of processors which are not the top end, bu they have special graphics acceleration features.

There is also the question of Intel chipset, X58 being a high performance but older set, and the P68 (sp?) being newer with special graphics features.

So I guess my answer to your question is I don't know either. :)


 
It depends if you're a Professional, Hobbiest, or whatever on what hardware to choose.

Here's a list of accelerated GPUs:
1. Official -> http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html
2. Non Official -> http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

IF you're a Professional producing 'Commercial output' then you'd want a Workstation: Xeon, MOBO supporting Xeon and ECC, large SSD + SSD scratch drive, 16GB+ Registered ECC RAM, RAID 5 with 1TB or 2TB HDDs (n−1)X e.g. (4-1)*1TB = 3TB or (4-1)*2TB = 6TB of storage.

Q - Professional or Personal use?
Q - Total Budget?