What are your computer specs for cs5?

Futchibon

Futchibon

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Hi guys,

I need to buy a new computer as I just bought a gh13, moving up from a DVX so my pentium 4 won't cut it anymore! :grin:

Could you please:

* List your computer specs, including any extra cooling you installed
* Whether you are using the hack for Mercury playback or not
* How the performance is, any problems etc, with or without the hack
* Any other relevant info

THANK YOU VERY MUCH
 
I'm editing 5D and HMC150 footage.

Windows 7 64bit
CS5
Intel i7 870 2.93 ghz
8 gig Ram
Intel H55 Motherboard
460GTX 1 gig ddr5 ram
2 500gig drives. one for system and programs, 1 for project files.
External Drives via USB2 for footage to be stored on. (If i edit a much higher bitrate thing like DVCPRO or something else i'd probably have the footage on my internal drives. But i havent had any problems so far with low bitrate stuff. Except it takes a few seconds for the footage to load when i open Premiere.

No problems so far with editing, cuts it perfectly. like DV 4 years ago.
Still Get the typical Windows bullshit. Would move to a Mac if i spent more time editing.

Using the mercury hack. seems fine so far. except it doesn't like palying back stuff sped up at about 5000% it'll just freeze frame. but a quick render of that stuff i'm happy to live with.

No Extra cooling, but the GPU has a bloody massive fan on it about 4 times the size of the CPU fan.

All inside a budget coolermaster tower. with no extra fans.
 
Windows 7 64-bit
i5 750
8gb ram
4gb speedboost
9800 gtx+ 512mb not enough memory to enable mercury
no extra cooling

No problems... going to upgrade my video card when I find a good enough deal on a 470gtx 1gb
 
Win7 x64
Intel Q6600 quad core at 2.4GhZ
8GB 1066 mhz ram
9800GTX+ OC 1GB (hacked for CS5 mercury playback engine)
2TB RAID10 main drive
twin 500GB RAID10 storage drives
twin 23" LG OLED 1920x1080 monitors

this is my 3 1/2 yr old home PC; business machines are being upgraded. It gets my personal projects done just fine. Stock air cooling, but i did add one 120mm intake fan and i leave the side access panel off (temps stay 15 degrees cooler). I render M2T HDV files at 2:1 with no effects; h.264 .MOV's from the T2i render about 1.5:1.

My other personal machine is a 2003 Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop; WinXP x32, 3.06 GhZ HT, 2 GB RAM, 64MB GeForce 5200, 1600x1200 UXGA, 500GB 7200RPM HDD. used for SD with CS4 and showing clients clips. There is NO WAY it could handle HD lol, but after 7 years trouble free, i have a hard time replacing it.

Office machines are going to be Core i7 980x (6 core) with a 1.5GB RAM GTX 480 Fermi cards, twin 500GB RAID10 disks, and 9GB RAM. I have found at 2.8 GhZ i only used 6.8 GB ram rendering while CPU's were topping out, so i figure go after more CPU and GPU power. Custom cooling without water or fans, and zero maintenance.

Currently they are i7 860 with 6GB RAM and twin 250GB RAID10 drives with GTX 285 1GB cards. I have 2 identical machines. Also have an HP notebook thats OK with editing some HD, but i rarely use it (Win Vista x32)
 
Asus P6t mobo
i7 980
Corsair 750w PS
12gb Corsair RAM
Asus Nvidia gtx470 gpu
win7 64b
seagate 500gb barracuda system drive

I'm just past the testing stage on this one, sorting out my raid options this weekend. About 90% of the material on my current project is AVCHD. I was previously (for the past 5+ years) cutting on Avid MC, Adobe AE is essential for me so the move to Adobe is pretty comfortable.
 
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i7 OC to 3.40
X58 mainboard
128 Transcend SSD
3x 1T Western Digital drives.
1 Gig Tri Ram
GTX 480
Win7 64
700 W power Supply
1T eSata Drive

My pet peeve is Seagate drives - had 3 fail on me this year.
Very happy with the WD drives!
Was going to get a 10000 RPM Velociraptor Drive but went for the small SSD (Same Price) - Goes like lightning!

GTX480 Is a monster for it's price.. holy crap, mercury engine bliss!
 
win7 64 bit
6gb crucial ram
9500 gt
amd phenom II x3 720 BE 2.8ghz (thinkn about overclockn if that will make a better difference)
alot of disk space

not alot but coming on along
 
* Windows/Hackintosh Setup Dual Boot *

i3-530
8Gb ddr3 1066
60Gb SSD - windows 64bit
200GB 7200 - macosx 1.6.5
Motherboard - Gigabyte p55ud3
GTX 285 *works on both platforms*
8TB for Backup Storage
Fractal Design Case
Waiting for Peyes for Mac

Everything runs very smooth don't need to convert the h.264 to Prores LT


http://www.fractal-design.com/
 
Core i7 920
12gb Ram
GTX 260 (CUDA Hack)
2 1tb drives
1 1.5tb drive

I can cut really well with this. It will slow down on me when playing back h.264 footage that has been sped up. But I can get native playback with multiple color corrections applied with transitions.
 
Main Setup
CPU - I7-950 (Quad core + Hyperthreading)
Mobo - Asus P6T (X55 Chipset)
Video - NVIDIA GTX 470 (Cuda is the ****, runs MPE at ludicrist speed)
Ram - 12GB Tri Channel
PSU - Cyberpower 950
Case - Coolermaster HAF X (no extra cooling as this case already has a metric ton of fans in it already)

SSD
1 x 30 GB

HDD
1 raid 0 scratch drive
1 2TB storage drive (programs too)

Optical
1 - BD-ROM
1 - BDR

Printer
Artisan 835 - (Just picked this up for a song, prints fantastic on inkjet printable disks!)

Visual Real estate
1) 27" HP 2710m Main monitor
32" 720p Sony Bravia (confidence monitor)

Running windows 7 64 bit and CS5 master suite


This system shreds through anything I have thrown at it like a hot knife through butter, no overclocking needed. I imagine that the guy above with the I7-980 is seeing similar (he has 6 cores hyperthreaded).
No need for the CS5 hack on my video card. CS5 supports it outright, just make sure you get the cuda drivers as well or it wont work.

Next few weeks I will be adding another video card (470 or 480) and 2 more 27" HP monitors as additional workspace as well as a pair of alesis nearfield audio monitors and a 10TB drobo for storage / backup. Spyder 3 will be used to calibrate color on the displays.

I am setting this up to have 3 monitors side by side and the confidence monitor above. Confidence monitor will be attached to a DVD player, Blu Ray player (disk playback verification before job goes to customer) and PC as live confidence monitor. Nearfields will be on the sides of the bravia (equal distance from the mix position is important!). I will probably pick up a dedicated sound card as well since the on board audio is noisy as **** (it really is!)

Sidenote - Edius 5 (since it does not use GPU to help out) seems to max out the CPU when editing and scrubbing 3 stacked (multicam) timelines, this is why I am switching to Premiere! Don;t get me wrong this PC does a hell of a job and usually recovers pretty quick but no where near as smooth as premiere CS5 runs.

** still building this PC **
 
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Thanks for the feedback guys! Settled on the following:

i7 860 2.93 Ghz (can be overclocked to 3.6 Ghz but no need to)
8 GB Ram
GTX 470 - yeah baby!
Windows 7 Home Premium 64
CS5 Master Suite
BluRay Burner

Works like a charm!
 
If your going to spring for the BD burner make sure you get the pioneer. It gets great reviews for solid burns without creating real expensive coasters. You will pay a premium for it though, its almost 200 bucks. As far as overclocking, remember that in video its work not play. Stability is key!
 
Win7x64
Phenom II Quad 3.0ghz non-OC.
8GB DDR2-800
64GB OCZ Turbo SSD (system drive)
2x1TB RAID for raw footage & media
2x500GB RAID for projects and renders
Palit GTX 460 1GB DDR5 Sonic (stock speed) (displays main desktop and reference 1080p monitor)
GeForce 8400GS 256MB secondary card (displays my bins and non-video stuff)
MSI AMD-based mobo (only one I could get with 2 PCIx16 and DDR2).

The RAID drives are a bit flaky, this config isn't stable yet. Booting is a crap-shoot if any of the drives are seen. But, the RAID drives speed up stuff considerably. Probably only need the one pair for raw footage.

I have multiple projects on the go at any given time, so all the raw clips on one drive works well, but if I were just dealing with one job at a time, I would not hesitate to use two of those OCZ's in a RAID and keep the raw clips on there.. That would be insane fast.
 
Windows 7 64bit (Home Premium)
Core i7 920 @ 4ghz, overclocked with a Corsair H50
8gb RAM
Asus P6T-SE Motherboard
ATI 5770

Having a non-Nvidia card, I don't use the Mercury Playback engine. But I've never had any issues colour correcting footage from the 7D which is the most high-end camera this computer will ever see, so that's fine with me - any higher end camera and it would probably struggle. But, for the most part, the processor speed makes up for it.
 
In a Dell Studio XPS 435MT chassis/mobo
7 64 Pro
i7 920 (can't OC without getting a new board and case, which I'm thinking about doing)
24GB DDR3
GTX 460 (modded text file, so Pr recognizes it); had to mod the case to allow proper cooling for the card
120GB SSD
several TBs of regular drives
 
Indeed.

Once I got the cuda drivers sorted out and the mpe enabled.

N635DC said:
Main Setup
CPU - I7-950 (Quad core + Hyperthreading)
Mobo - Asus P6T (X55 Chipset)
Video - NVIDIA GTX 470 (Cuda is the ****, runs MPE at ludicrist speed)
Ram - 12GB Tri Channel
PSU - Cyberpower 950
Case - Coolermaster HAF X (no extra cooling as this case already has a metric ton of fans in it already)

SSD
1 x 30 GB

HDD
1 raid 0 scratch drive
1 2TB storage drive (programs too)

Optical
1 - BD-ROM
1 - BDR

Printer
Artisan 835 - (Just picked this up for a song, prints fantastic on inkjet printable disks!)

Visual Real estate
1) 27" HP 2710m Main monitor
32" 720p Sony Bravia (confidence monitor)

Running windows 7 64 bit and CS5 master suite


This system shreds through anything I have thrown at it like a hot knife through butter, no overclocking needed. I imagine that the guy above with the I7-980 is seeing similar (he has 6 cores hyperthreaded).
No need for the CS5 hack on my video card. CS5 supports it outright, just make sure you get the cuda drivers as well or it wont work.
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At least I know its not just me. It didn't work for me right out of the box either.

- Sidenote: On my comment "This system shreds thorugh anything I have thrown at it like a hot knife through butter"... I have a new respect for how much resources After Effects needs to render. Prior to my CS5 upgrade, I had never used AE. Let me revise my statement. This system shreds through almost everything like a hot knile through butter, less any realy complex animation render jobs that AE puts out. In that case you might wanna go make a sandwich and follow that up with a night on the town! I though I was doing something wrong in after effects since it was taking so long, as it turns out After Effects is not hardware accelerated. WTF? AE is the program that needs it most! They seriously need to get on it and figure out and engine that they can use to enable graphics card hardware acceleration. From what I understand, CS5 is way more efficient than CS4 (I wouldnt know first hand), but seriously, 2-3 hours to render a 00:02:30:00 HD menu animation? The processor at 100% on all 8 threads runs up to 70-75 degrees C even with a crazy case with fans everywhere like the HAF X. I am seriously considering removing the stock cooler and moving to something like the coolermaster V10 (your thoughts on this please). This makes me want to upgrade to the EVGA Super Record II, Drop in 2 hex core processors and 48 or more gigs of ram whilst using a raid of 10k scratch drives.

-With my system spec (see my earlier post) what are my best settings for multiframe & multiprocessor in AE with regards to ram?
 
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I'm buying a new editing system for myself as well at the end of this week. Here are the specs:

Two 2.66Ghz Six Core Intel Xeon
12GB (6x2GB) RAM
4x 1TB 7200
Windows 7 64 bit
Bluray BR-RW
PNY Nvidia Quadro 4000
Apple LED Cinema Display (27" flat panel)

Does this configuration sound acceptable? I'll be editing on Premiere CS5, mostly EX1 and 7D footage.
Up till this point I've been editing SD footage in Premiere CS3. The goal with this system is that I can
edit HD footage with the same speed I've been use to with SD. Thoughts?

P.
 
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