Time To Upgrade....

[NevRR]

Think it's time to upgrade my PC...

Went to render a 11 minute video of raw Drift Ghost footage (1080p@30fps,) no effects or anything, no background programs, only Vegas was running.

"Estimated render time 8 hours 50 minutes" I left it for 3 hours, it was at 29% and I gave up there!"

Was hoping to buy a nice one piece for the summer, but looks like a new PC will take priority! I can build a fairly decent spec one for £400 ish! Ahwell...

 

[thunderous71]

Think it's time to upgrade my PC...

Went to render a 11 minute video of raw Drift Ghost footage (1080p@30fps,) no effects or anything, no background programs, only Vegas was running.

"Estimated render time 8 hours 50 minutes" I left it for 3 hours, it was at 29% and I gave up there!"

Was hoping to buy a nice one piece for the summer, but looks like a new PC will take priority! I can build a fairly decent spec one for £400 ish! Ahwell...

If no effects and you are rendering at the same bitrate and rez of the original footage it should only take a few mins. Even with a slow PC.

You might want to start checking your settings.

 

[NevRR]

That's what you'd think.. My PC is about 8 years old now though, pretty much a standard crappy HP one from years ago! It seems to handle short videos fine, but long ones it just slows right down!

I've been meaning to build this new one for a while, so am just gonna go ahead with the build!

 

[Lurch]

Might need a bit of a clear out, but if you're in the market for one anyway, might as well save your time finding out all the replacement stuff that now won't install on a W8 PC

 

[RoninK6]

Mac, Mac, Mac ~

 

[NevRR]

Would love a mac, but Mr bank disagrees!

 

[TheDutchTexan]

O... M... G...

I would be ready to bin my PC if my OLD one would take that long. And that was a Dual Core 2.4GHZ intel with 2gigs of ram and a 1gb videocard. It would render everything in about an hour to hour and a half. My current rig does it in half the time unless I do 60p footage. Then a 15 minute clip takes an hour. I guess the extra horsepower doesn't do jack when you up the ante.

 

[NevRR]

My current piece of crap has a dual core 1.8gHz intel, 512mb video card. I did upgrade the RAM to 4gb a while ago, but it only did so much with the processor lacking!

Looking at building one with an AMD FX6300 6 core 3.8GHz processor, 8gb RAM and 2GB video card... Should be a tad better!

 

[TheDutchTexan]

If rendering is what you want it's Intel all the way. They got more grunt there than a AMD does. Multiple cores will work if the software is optimized. But any older software (I am still rocking Vegas 10 Pro for instance) won't see that benefit. Then you are better off with higher clock-speeds and less cores. I am rocking a i7 4790k @ 4Ghz (quad core) with 16Gb of ram and a Ati R9 280 with 3Gb of ram. It's pretty beast compared to my old rig, and will probably serve me well for a good long while.

 

[NevRR]

Yeah, you are correct in that intel is better for editing, however it will be for a bit of gaming too, and AMD tending to be alot cheaper, probably all i'll be able to afford! Anything will be better than my current one though, so it can only get better!