Daaaaang.

David - That's exactly the setup I've been looking at for my next system. Glad to hear it works so well. My plan is to build that system as an edit workstation only and leave this computer as my e-mail, web, word processing, etc system.

Another advantage of the dual-core is that they both have access in to each others cache. What this means is that if one of the processors is idle, it can lend a hand to the process stream of the other processor and improve its performance.
 
isn't there a render test on Vasst.com? I'd like to see some comparisons. Last time I checked, I beat a dual Opteron with my single Athlon 64 FX-51. has the test been updated for vegas 5/6? Let's do it!
 
Envision said:
So I can see where it sounds like dual core will have an advantage over hyper threading, because it's a hardware advantage vs. just a software advantage.

However, which would be better: Dual Core Processor or Dual Processors?
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If your only video editing then two single core Opteron 254's (running at 2.8Ghz) will run faster than 1 dual core 280 (running at 2.4Ghz). Processor speed is what it's all about. Plus the fact that most softwares are not written to take advantage of 4 tunnels (2 dual core processors), they won't take advantage of all the processing horsepower.

Take a look at this article: http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q4/opteron-254/index.x?pg=1

This will show the difference plus show the superiority of the Opteron over the Xeon- wow!
 
Don't computers make you wanna' puke! It's so cool when you first put it together... especially when you look at the machine you're upgrading (or replacing) but then a year later it's just not a big deal again.

I'm jealous of your $800 system and I paid $1500 for mine a little over a year ago! P4 3gig (had 2gigs 2-2-2-5... now 1gig for stability? yeah whatever)... 876 Intel chipset.

Aaaaannnnd... I JUST installed Vegas 6 + DVDA 3 today. I hope mine works at least 60% as good as yours David! (Thanks for the help on my Vegas choice too)
 
Matt, with your system, you should be able to transcode in real time, maybe a little better. Depending on numbers of layers, effects, etc., of course.
 
I got my Dell XPS600 system this week, with a Pentium 4 dualcore 3.0 ghz processor and 2 GB RAM memory (and the nice 24" widescreen monitor!!!). I rendered out a piece of video with a couple of video-effects (color correction, fades, tv-simlulator) to DVD Architect PAL videostream. I got a 1:1 rendertime with Vegas 6. With lesser effects the rendertime even got better. These new kind of processors really work nice with Vegas 6!
 
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