Best deal for top drawer video editing

[GrievousAngel]

Hello all,

With 6-core CPU out now, what do you think the best deal (CPU & MOBO) on a system for video & audio recording and editing?

Where might the line of diminishing returns exist? Intel products? AMD?

For video & audio editing and such, is Intel worth the extra cost? I understand this is an age old question, but . . . I haev always used AMD, but I am not locked in.

BTW: In terms of MOBO, the number of PCIe slots are critical, so more is better. Which MOBO should I review?

With the above system requirement, do you think the latest SATA HDs are quick enough w/o going RAID? I personally have never built a RAID sub-system that I could notice was faster, but it is safer if done right.

I have an ASUS (M4A79) quad core AMD 3.2GHz system with 8Gb ram and a HighPoint HW RAID sub-system, and it has trouble keeping up with small video & audio projects! Should that be expected on that system?

What forum is best to post these type of questions, as it's not just CPU?

Thanks,
William

 

[FinneousPJ]

What's a small project? I don't think that should be expected...

Anyway the ultimate systems for productivity are i7. That is both 1155 and 1366 sockets.

 

[Wisecracker]

In multi-threaded encoding you will see near-linear improvements in performance going from a quad- to a hex-core.

Post up your software, your input format(s), project format(s) and output.

 

[GrievousAngel]

I use Adobe Premier for video and Pro Tools 8 for audio on a W7 system. ~ 1-2 minutes of final video playback. I do more audio recording and editing but getting into more and more video these days.

William