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.

 

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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.

 

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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).