Dell Dimension 3000 for Vegas?

[FROM_BROOKLYN]

Will The Dimension 3000 from Dell work well with Vegas? It's 2.8 ghz and it's CHEAP!

Thanks

Bklyn

[David Jimerson]

Anything running Windows XP will run Vegas, though you're better off with a Pentium 4 and as much memory as you can get.

[J.R. Hudson]

It should work fine but it's not going to be the smoking machine. What is your budget? (The 3000's are running around $539 to $789) And what level of usage will you require? Render times are going to be brutal.

[HorseFilms]

The beauty of Vegas is that it'll run well on just about anything. Though, as John said, render times can be a bitch. That part of it doesn't bother me, though. I set it up to render and then go get some lunch.

[J.R. Hudson]

LOL So true. I render then surf or play a vid.

[David Jimerson]

LOL So true. *I render then surf or play a vid.

You do know that adds to the time, right . . . ? :o

[J.R. Hudson]

Ya, but seconds to the minutes as far as I can tell. The new comp (Dell Prec Pent XEON) is superfast. I have no complaints. :)

[David Jimerson]

Yeah, I'm upgrading to a dual-Xeon system soon. ;D

[J.R. Hudson]

Nice.

It's fast. I like it compared to my stolen Dell P4 (You have to get the Gig of Ram though) :P

[David Jimerson]

I'm building it myself. I already have a gig and half; I'll probably get another 512 or 1GB stick.

[J.R. Hudson]

Bastid!!!!!!!!! :D ;D

[J_Barnes]

we're about to get our second dual xeon here, and I'm working on a request for a v-lan to allow network rendering in my edit room. If we finally get our testing system in addition, I'll have a 2 gig dual 2.4, a 4 gig dual 3.2 and a single 1 gig 2.8 available for rendering.

Talk about overkill~! Anyone wanna outsource some rendering? :P