Post by Romy Ocon on Feb 6, 2011 3:37:17 GMT
Just to share with those planning to upgrade their CPUs, I just built a modest video/photo cruncher yesterday for Pogito. Components were purchased from PC Express - Sucat, and assembly was free of charge.
Pogito's machine cost is about P 42K (see costings below) because I pushed it to 12 GB RAM and chose a better GPU. The GT/S 400 series GPUs are good enough to crunch full HD video via GPU acceleration. I had to unlock the GPU manually though because many models of GPUs aren't certified yet by Adobe and such are locked by default from using Premiere CS5's Mercury Playback Engine.
Unlocking Method:
www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm
I tried editing some 1080p footage in Premiere CS5 and it's great to see the clips play smoothly in real time. Pogito's machine can handle easily 2 layers of 1080p footage with multiple effects and dissolves.
I was monitoring the CPU and RAM usage during Premiere CS5 editing and it looks like the bottleneck is the CPU, as the 12 GB RAM is barely used fully. On hindsight, I believe I can do the same video editing with a more modest 8 GB RAM and a bit cheaper GT 430.
As regards photo processing and RAW conversion, Pogito's machine is scary fast..... way ahead of my ancient Q6600+4 GB+512 MB GPU+XP machine, which is already very good for photo work but deficient for video work.
IMHO, the budget PC build at P 35K below will do the video and photo jobs as good as Pogito's, and will run way much faster and better than my old workhorse.
I can't believe the lower cost of video crunching CPUs these days!
Pogito's machine cost is about P 42K (see costings below) because I pushed it to 12 GB RAM and chose a better GPU. The GT/S 400 series GPUs are good enough to crunch full HD video via GPU acceleration. I had to unlock the GPU manually though because many models of GPUs aren't certified yet by Adobe and such are locked by default from using Premiere CS5's Mercury Playback Engine.
Unlocking Method:
www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm
I tried editing some 1080p footage in Premiere CS5 and it's great to see the clips play smoothly in real time. Pogito's machine can handle easily 2 layers of 1080p footage with multiple effects and dissolves.
I was monitoring the CPU and RAM usage during Premiere CS5 editing and it looks like the bottleneck is the CPU, as the 12 GB RAM is barely used fully. On hindsight, I believe I can do the same video editing with a more modest 8 GB RAM and a bit cheaper GT 430.
As regards photo processing and RAW conversion, Pogito's machine is scary fast..... way ahead of my ancient Q6600+4 GB+512 MB GPU+XP machine, which is already very good for photo work but deficient for video work.
IMHO, the budget PC build at P 35K below will do the video and photo jobs as good as Pogito's, and will run way much faster and better than my old workhorse.
I can't believe the lower cost of video crunching CPUs these days!
