PC build for PD9

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PC build for PD9

Jazmyn

Newbie Joined: Jul 04, 2011 05:17 Messages: 2 Offline

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Aug 16, 2011 17:59

Am teaching myself how to edit videos and make my own movies as a hobby. Mostly machinima (movies using game engines) As my old PC just is not up to the task of video editing, I am putting together the following. I can run PD9 on my old PC, it just quickly runs out of memory and takes 2 hours to render 30 seconds of video.

Shuttle XPC SX58H7-PRO Intel Core i7 processors (Socket 1366) Intel Socket B(LGA1366) Intel X58

Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601950

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

16G memory and a Lite-On iHBS212-08 12X Internal Blu-Ray Writer. Running Win7 64 pro.

I considered a SSD drive for the OS, but wondered if it was overkill at this point? Am tempted to wait till the prices and capacity of the SSD drives come down.

Any suggestions or whatever? I also have PD9 Deluxe. Would it be worth it to upgrade to ultra for machinima?

James Dotson

Senior Contributor Location: Tennessee Joined: Aug 24, 2009 20:40 Messages: 3066 Offline

Aug 16, 2011 20:35

If you use an SSD drive for the system drive, I would suggest also installing a standard SATA drive for PD to use. There have been several reports of trouble editing video on SSD drives alone. __________________________________
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