Hackintoshes are nice if you don't plan on constantly updating the O.S. every time they're released as that usually introduces new issues; especially if you don't have the perfect configurations for them- they're plenty of guides out there for that. You usually have to plan ahead before you make a commitment and buy parts. I know for the new x79 platforms I don't think anyone has gotten Lion to run perfectly smooth on then, i.e. no sound, power management issues etc. Best alternative is to have both a mac and a PC as that seems to be working out well for me.
Can't recommend Hackintosh enough.
@Macalincag Fab!! Can't wait to get mine going!!
If you look at the first page of this topic, towards the bottom, I listed the specs of my latest build. The only reason I have it water-cooled is because I choose to overclock my CPU. The only thing that really gets it's temp up is when playing graphic intensive games. NLE doesn't even cause it to break a sweat. Nothing I have done has caused the CPU usage to exceed 30% either besides stress testing it with Prime 95.
@Macalincag That's similar to the system I'm buying - although I've gone for a GTX580. Looking forward to getting it - and I've bought a few bits and pieces in advance of it including that SSD boot drive which makes an amazing difference even in my old Q6600 quad core. You also gain because they don't need cooling of course. I also render (Vegas) to the SSD and that seems to work well. Haven't tried RAID but great suggestion. Holding off doing any serious editing till I get my new machine. Can't wait - and hope it's more exciting than watching things render at 1 frame every 3 seconds - although that teaches you zen-like patience.
Am I right in thinking the 3930K runs pretty well without having expensive cooling? Mind you I'm in a cold house so it might be useful to keep my feet warm.
With Premiere CS6 most probably AMD cards will work also.
Base principle - NLE first choice! Then - choice hardware. I recommend to choose NLE firstly.
A CUDA card would be beneficial in your case. But there are also several things that aid in making things go much more smoothly, like an SSD for the boot drive and a seperate RAID for video storage.
Yes, I get that, but what's on a dual core i5 @ 3.2Ghz? Does it count anything? Or is it worth to use Premiere at all? If I understand well, only Adobe Premiere could benefit from CUDA, do You recommend to use that software for basic editings or something else?
I have a GTX 570 2.5GB and an i7 3930k@4ghz but I choose to leave my CUDA acceleration off because my processor is actually a few seconds faster at rendering and it doesn't even surpass 25% CPU usage. So in a situation like that it wouldn't even matter owning an nvidia or radeon.
Cool advice. I am about to ditch my ageing pc which allowed me to try out some bits to see what made a difference. Nvidia cards do make a difference - and the other thing which hugely increased my pc's speed was installing an SSD drive. Anyway good luck - it's an adventure!
ATI cards do not have CUDA cores, which is what Premiere uses to optimize real-time effects. For editing on premiere, always get an Nvidia Card. Make sure it has DDR5 memory and also has over 1GB ram, as anything under will not be recognized.
A quick question related to this topic: I'm having a quite moderate PC, Dual-Core I5-650 with 4GB DDR3 RAM. I'm planning to change my VGA card to something with a passive cooling (budget-one). My question is is there any difference between a radeon card e.g a 6770 and a nVidia card with CUDA? I'm planing to edit footage from my newly purchased GH2 (maybe it'll be hacked). Just some home made work, nothing really serious. Thank You,
Tom
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