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Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400??
Dear Colleagues,
I am in a bit of a quandry and ask for your guidance. I am in the process of building myself a video editing box for use with Adobe Premier. The box itself is going to have 4 gigs of memory and a mid-range, 256mb video card since I am told that video rendering occurs mostly on the processor. I am looking at the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6ghz or an Athlon 64 X2 4400 processor. There is a significant difference in price, but thats not my primary concern. The bottom line, for video editing, I see that the FX-55 does not have a dual-core processor while the Athlon 64X2 does. Am I correct that I am better off in terms of performance for my particular application with the dual core. . . or not? Advice is greatly appreciated. The Flying Dutchman |
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Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400??
Get a dual core. If your present app doesn't take advantage of it, a future
version likely will. Plus, if your app just uses one core you can carry on with other things using the 2nd core. Or you can lower the app's thread priority in Task Manager in order to do other things. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org |
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Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400??
"Ed Light" wrote in message news:kvByg.9363$RD.3565@fed1read08... Get a dual core. If your present app doesn't take advantage of it, a future version likely will. Plus, if your app just uses one core you can carry on with other things using the 2nd core. Or you can lower the app's thread priority in Task Manager in order to do other things. Of course, I mean while rendering. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org |
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Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400??
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:42:53 -0400, Dutch wrote:
Dear Colleagues, I am in a bit of a quandry and ask for your guidance. I am in the process of building myself a video editing box for use with Adobe Premier. The box itself is going to have 4 gigs of memory and a mid-range, 256mb video card since I am told that video rendering occurs mostly on the processor. I am looking at the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6ghz or an Athlon 64 X2 4400 processor. There is a significant difference in price, but thats not my primary concern. The bottom line, for video editing, I see that the FX-55 does not have a dual-core processor while the Athlon 64X2 does. Am I correct that I am better off in terms of performance for my particular application with the dual core. . . or not? Advice is greatly appreciated. The Flying Dutchman AMD has stopped production of the X2 4400+ as well as all other A64s with 1M caches with the single exception of the FX62. You'll be much better off with an Intel Core2 Duo system. The Core2 Duos have 4M of cache and run rings around the A64s especially on multimedia tasks. The Core2s have just come out and are a little hard to find. MonarchComputer told me that they will start offering them next week. |
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Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400??
"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message news On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:42:53 -0400, Dutch wrote: Dear Colleagues, I am in a bit of a quandry and ask for your guidance. I am in the process of building myself a video editing box for use with Adobe Premier. The box itself is going to have 4 gigs of memory and a mid-range, 256mb video card since I am told that video rendering occurs mostly on the processor. I am looking at the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6ghz or an Athlon 64 X2 4400 processor. There is a significant difference in price, but thats not my primary concern. The bottom line, for video editing, I see that the FX-55 does not have a dual-core processor while the Athlon 64X2 does. Am I correct that I am better off in terms of performance for my particular application with the dual core. . . or not? Advice is greatly appreciated. The Flying Dutchman AMD has stopped production of the X2 4400+ as well as all other A64s with 1M caches with the single exception of the FX62. You'll be much better off with an Intel Core2 Duo system. The Core2 Duos have 4M of cache and run rings around the A64s especially on multimedia tasks. The Core2s have just come out and are a little hard to find. MonarchComputer told me that they will start offering them next week. Unfortunately, the Core2 MB is double the cost of a S939 board and you will have to replace ddr with ddr2 ram. |
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Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400??
Martik wrote: "General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message news On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:42:53 -0400, Dutch wrote: Dear Colleagues, I am in a bit of a quandry and ask for your guidance. I am in the process of building myself a video editing box for use with Adobe Premier. The box itself is going to have 4 gigs of memory and a mid-range, 256mb video card since I am told that video rendering occurs mostly on the processor. I am looking at the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6ghz or an Athlon 64 X2 4400 processor. There is a significant difference in price, but thats not my primary concern. The bottom line, for video editing, I see that the FX-55 does not have a dual-core processor while the Athlon 64X2 does. Am I correct that I am better off in terms of performance for my particular application with the dual core. . . or not? Advice is greatly appreciated. The Flying Dutchman AMD has stopped production of the X2 4400+ as well as all other A64s with 1M caches with the single exception of the FX62. You'll be much better off with an Intel Core2 Duo system. The Core2 Duos have 4M of cache and run rings around the A64s especially on multimedia tasks. The Core2s have just come out and are a little hard to find. MonarchComputer told me that they will start offering them next week. Unfortunately, the Core2 MB is double the cost of a S939 board and you will have to replace ddr with ddr2 ram. What about the ati RD 600? Do you think it come to production once the amd -ati merger have happen? I ask you because of the chipmakers rivalry I`ve readed in an article it will cost 160 usd http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=608109 |
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Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400??
A dual-core is indeed what you want. Perfect time to purchase one too in
that Intel's new Core2Duo release has the prices on all CPU's plummeting. While AMD has stopped production on their socket 939 and AM2 processors with 2MB of L2 cache (1MB/core) - they are widely available online with the many resellers. Here's a link to the best buy I could find on the CPU you want - the x2 4800+: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...ctCode=80728-R $355 For your application (video editing) - the 1MB of L2 cache/core is beneficial. AMD has stopped production of these CPU's to help them cut their production costs/CPU. Most real-world apps don't suffer from the loss of cache memory with AMD because of their efficient memory controllers, but your application does indeed benefit from higher L2 cache. Lucky you! The online retailers are looking to flush out these chips from their inventory and have slashed prices. In February '06 this CPU was $850 at NewEGG. Socket 939 is a mature/reliable platform and will serve you well over the next 24 months as the industry prepares for quad-cores and AMD moves to a 65nm production process. With Socket 939, you won't need to upgrade your mobo and buy DDR2 memory either. Here's a recommemndation for your video box: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ ASUS A8N5X http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131569 $79 OCZ Platinum 2GB (2x1GB) DDR 400 (PC 3200) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227210 $169 Good Luck! My rig: Silverstone TJ-03 / SST-ST60F 600W Modular / Foxconn C51XEM2AA-8EKRS2H / FX-62 / CNPS9500 AM2 / 2Gb Mushkin XP DDR2 800 @ 4-4-3-10 / eVGA 7900GTX SC / WD 74GB Raptor / 2 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB / Plextor PX-716SA /ASUS DVD-ROM / Creative X-FI Platinum / Klipsch Promedia 2.1 / Saitek Gamer / Razer Copperhead / XP Pro SP2 |
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Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400??
Adobe's Premeire Elements 2 is dual core ready. You can download a trial
version and it will tell you if its using 1 core or 2 cores in bottom left corner I believe. -- Sapphire X1600 Pro 512mb AGP MSI Theater 550Pro TV Tuner Thermaltake LanFire Midtower(4X80mm fans),Antec 550 Watt PSU Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 nForce3, A64 3500+, Stock Cooler IdleTemp 28 C 2 Gb Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5 CL2.5 Viewsonic A91f 19in Moniter 2XSATA WD 320gb Raid Edition, PATA WD 120Gb HD Pioneer 110D Dual Layer burner Logitech MX 310 Optical Mouse Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick Microsoft ergonomic keyboard Cheap computer speakers with Sennheiser HD 477 Headphones 3DMark05Free-Overall-3134 1024X768, 4XAA/8XAF 6.4Drivers Cpu - 4405 3Dmark2001 - 8702 4XAA/8XAF 1280X1024 Games I'm Playing- IL-2 Sturmovick Series Empire Earth 2, Need For Speed: Underground 2, Civ IV, Warhammer 40,000 Gold "Dutch" wrote in message ... Dear Colleagues, I am in a bit of a quandry and ask for your guidance. I am in the process of building myself a video editing box for use with Adobe Premier. The box itself is going to have 4 gigs of memory and a mid-range, 256mb video card since I am told that video rendering occurs mostly on the processor. I am looking at the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6ghz or an Athlon 64 X2 4400 processor. There is a significant difference in price, but thats not my primary concern. The bottom line, for video editing, I see that the FX-55 does not have a dual-core processor while the Athlon 64X2 does. Am I correct that I am better off in terms of performance for my particular application with the dual core. . . or not? Advice is greatly appreciated. The Flying Dutchman |
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Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400??
"Dutch" wrote in message
... Dear Colleagues, I am in a bit of a quandry and ask for your guidance. I am in the process of building myself a video editing box for use with Adobe Premier. The box itself is going to have 4 gigs of memory and a mid-range, 256mb video card since I am told that video rendering occurs mostly on the processor. I am looking at the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6ghz or an Athlon 64 X2 4400 processor. There is a significant difference in price, but thats not my primary concern. The bottom line, for video editing, I see that the FX-55 does not have a dual-core processor while the Athlon 64X2 does. Am I correct that I am better off in terms of performance for my particular application with the dual core. . . or not? Advice is greatly appreciated. The Flying Dutchman Best answer I can give you is "maybe"... It's been a long time since I used Premier, and I was never really big into video editing so I'm not familiar with how much time Adobe actually spent to optimizing that application to run on multiple cores. While normally I'm all for AMD, if you're building this system now it might be worth it to check out Core2 processors. They generally perform much better than anything AMD has right now at just about every price level. If you want something from AMD that will over competitive performance you're probably going to end up waiting at least a few months for new silicon to hit the streets. If you're mind is made up on AMD (or has been made for you) then I'd say just Google for premier benchmarks and see how different system configurations perform. |
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Video Editing? AMD Athlon 64FX-55 2.6ghz or Athlon 64X2 400??
"foreign steel" wrote in message oups.com... Martik wrote: "General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message news On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:42:53 -0400, Dutch wrote: Dear Colleagues, I am in a bit of a quandry and ask for your guidance. I am in the process of building myself a video editing box for use with Adobe Premier. The box itself is going to have 4 gigs of memory and a mid-range, 256mb video card since I am told that video rendering occurs mostly on the processor. I am looking at the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6ghz or an Athlon 64 X2 4400 processor. There is a significant difference in price, but thats not my primary concern. The bottom line, for video editing, I see that the FX-55 does not have a dual-core processor while the Athlon 64X2 does. Am I correct that I am better off in terms of performance for my particular application with the dual core. . . or not? Advice is greatly appreciated. The Flying Dutchman AMD has stopped production of the X2 4400+ as well as all other A64s with 1M caches with the single exception of the FX62. You'll be much better off with an Intel Core2 Duo system. The Core2 Duos have 4M of cache and run rings around the A64s especially on multimedia tasks. The Core2s have just come out and are a little hard to find. MonarchComputer told me that they will start offering them next week. Unfortunately, the Core2 MB is double the cost of a S939 board and you will have to replace ddr with ddr2 ram. What about the ati RD 600? Do you think it come to production once the amd -ati merger have happen? I ask you because of the chipmakers rivalry I`ve readed in an article it will cost 160 usd http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=608109 Yes I do, but it's still double the cost. Of course, next year it will be in line with the S939 prices. |
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