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Best Processor for Video Editing.

Dove32

Dove32

Dove32

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Hey all,

Sorry if this has been posted before, i had a search through for a thread alread but couldnt find one so.

Basically just wondered what you would recommend would be the best processor for video editing out atm, or coming out in the near future. Basically just wondered whether AMD or Intel would be best for video editing, and maybe which one is the best. eg. core duo etc.

Thanks in advance.
 
Intel is traditionally seen as better for video processing due to its longer pipeline and I suppose that the Core 2 Duos would still be the favorites in this arena even though their pipelines are much shorter than the Netburst chips they replace.

Are you willing to overclock?
 
i could look into overclocking, i have never done it myself but i know a few people who have, is it really worth it then ?
 
At the moment, the best processor for *some task here* is Intels Core 2 Duo processor. It's new and is a leap in terms of performance from any other processor on the market. Along with plenty of RAM you'll have a fine video editing machine.

You do realise the Mac is in the mix here is editing is the primary task?

As for overclocking, you sacrifice heat and stability for speed so is not worth it unless you strike the fine balance between the three. Overclocking can be justified for gaming but if you need a stable and productive machine which may be used commercially, ie at work, then the gains aren't worth it.

In my opinion of course...
 
The best machine commercially available will be the Mac Pro, whose availability date will be announced at WWDC on August 7th. On the low end it will have a single Conroe amid at the upper end it will have dual Woodcrests and a 1333 MHz FSB. If I had to buy a machine for use with video editing that would be it.

If you're going to build yourself overclocking becomes a possibility. An E6300 is rated at about 1.8 GHz. These have been seen to go beyond 3.4 GHz when overclocked. I would feel confident clocking a processor to about 50% of its potential overclock without worrying about stability in any way.
 
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With the mac pro tho, would all the decent editing software run on it? Quiet a few programs i have been using say that they require windows.
 
Dove32 said:
With the mac pro tho, would all the decent editing software run on it? Quiet a few programs i have been using say that they require windows.
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Don't let a Mac user hear you say that.

As for software you've been using, if you're most productive with software that requires Windows, then that dictates the platform which leads us back to Intels Core 2 Duo processor.
 
I do a lot of video encoding and editing and a pc with 2 gig of ram and a nice clocked conroe will be ideal for your needs.

I really can't believe how fast my pc now at 3.6ghz :D
Look at the conores with the full 4mb cache.Although not a massive boost it will stand you in good stead for future and we all know that cache helps in rendering just as much as raw clock speed.
 
ok nice one, thanks very much for the advice guys appricate it . ;)

One last thing, u say about over clocking the core duo's *** fan would u recommend for the overclocking on it, or is the supplied fan enough to overclock a little?
 
I wouldn't use the stock HSF as it's small and noisy when dealing with an overclocked chip. The Scythe Ninja is the best cooler and the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro is the best deal. Go for an AS freezer. :)
 
ah kk nice, u got some fast repling goin on there lol.

I know this prob the wrong place to put it but i thought its worth a shot, but wen u overclock is it simply just a case of increasing the processor speed or would u have to overclock your memory and hard drives etc to keep up ?
 
Well you can't overclock hard disks :p and memory and CPUs are essentially tied together. You should do a bunch of reading on the subject before you jump into the deep end with your new Conroe. Essentially CPU speed is controlled by two things, the FSB and the multiplier. The FSB is the rate at which it communicates with memory and the multiplier is the number of times that the CPU cycles before it can access the memory again.

Read the overclocking guide as a stepping-off point: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=138583
 
Get a nice fast drive with say a 16mb cache for your system and like an 80 gig.

And then get two larger disks with nice cache and RAID 0 them.This will give you massive improvemnets gains when editing large video files,
 
Conroe X6800 is one of the best right now when you consider price & performance.

A server based quad CPU setup would be the ultimate but very costly. You can always submit your renders to a renderfarm (do a google on it you will find loads to choose from) with 1000s of CPUs but that can work out very expensive it all depends on whether or not your work justify that expensive.
 
spinneR~uk said:
Don't you mean E6600?
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No as I was taking into consideration the std out of the box performance. If you render on an OCed CPU unless it has water or better cooling it sure aint gonna last a long time running close to the thermal limits!
 
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