Video Editing (Phenom or stretch to Q6600)?

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Hey all.

I am speccing up a system for the missus who will use it primarily for surfing/general stuff but she does video edit quite a lot.

I would like to keep the build cost as low as possible and a low end Phenom seems to come a bit cheaper than a low end Q6600 spec.

Will this make much of a difference in terms of performance (pinnacle user).


Also this TLB erratta thing that I have read about for Phenom, would that affect the above usage???

Your thought appreciated folks before I commit to splashing the cash.

 

[Trunks9486]

The Q6600 is better... Now i dont know exactly how much better though and i dont know whether she would notice >_>

 

[easyrider]

C2D Q6600 without doubt.

 

[musx64]

C2D Q6600 without doubt.

how do you know it's better, have you had a phenom ?

 

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Part of me wants the Q6600 anyway as I gather it probably is better for vid editing (based on TH benchies I saw a while back) and the chip&chipset is quite mature.

I just wonder how much differential there is (in real world terms) and whether it justifies the extra pricetag (of the system as a whole) as having done a bit of research I can get an AMD platform (with on-board RAID on the mobo) for a fair bit cheaper than than a cheap 775 board. £60 budget for the mobo.

The biggest 'unknown' for me is whether this TLB erratta 'thingy' would occur in normal usage/video editing as above all I need a nice stable (but relatively cheap) system than can do the tasks above (and I don't really want to use a bios patch that is gonna 10% of performance). If that erratta means it would crash/behave oddly for this type of use then that would be a deal breaker for me.

Thanks for the input guys.

 

[Quixote]

From everything I've read the TLB fix only affects virtualisation under heavy workloads. Review sites have been unable to replicate it DELIBERATELY, let alone in norml use. I agree that you don't want the peformance hit from the fix. Check that the mobo bios allows for disabling of the fix, that's the easiest way to do it. I should add, I haven't used a Phenom myself yet.

 

[Blackout]

From everything I've read the TLB fix only affects virtualisation under heavy workloads.

Cheers Quixote, that's helpful, but what is virtualisation (sorry probably daft Q)? I guess a better/easier question to answer is, would she be err...virtualisingconfused: lol i'm such an noob!)...by video editing (I gather surfing, word docs, images etc would not be an issue here as that is mainstream 'normal' use).

 

[Quixote]

No, if you would be virtualising, you would know. I've not done it myself but it involves running virtual machines, for development purposes, although frankly, I'm pretty sketchy about the details. The TLB really only affects heavy server workloads as far as I know. For a home user, it can ignored for all intents & purposes.

 

[mrk]

3GHz Q6600 as if it came out the factory with 1333fsb and 3ghz clock mate, you know you want to!

 

[hp7909]

Difficult to recommend Phenom when the fixed chips are coming i.e. stepping B3. Also maybe more/better (mobo) chipsets that support it

 

[easyrider]

how do you know it's better, have you had a phenom ?

Don't need a phenom to know that a chip without SS4 instructions and 6mb

less cache would perfrom slower when video editing.

The benchies speak for themselves its not rocket science.