Is my laptop good enough?

Nate A

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Apr 04, 2012 22:45

So I bought a new laptop in hopes it would handle producing good videos primarily from a HD point of view camera (Drift HD Stealth). I (hopefully) have attached the SxDiag file from this laptop, please let me know your opinions. I just finished the 30 day trial, it seemed work very well, but the trial version does not have all of the capability.

Thanks,
Nate

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CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Apr 05, 2012 00:04

Quote: So I bought a new laptop in hopes it would handle producing good videos primarily from a HD point of view camera (Drift HD Stealth). I (hopefully) have attached the SxDiag file from this laptop, please let me know your opinions. I just finished the 30 day trial, it seemed work very well, but the trial version does not have all of the capability.

Thanks,
Nate

Hi Nate

Welcome to the forum

Your overall laptop specs seem OK but I was surprised to see that the dedicated memory for the video was only 64MB and there wasn't much room in the C Drive.

If this laptop has worked OK in the trial version then it should work OK for the full version

My laptop specs on are below my signature

Happy editing

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Happing editing

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Neil
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Nate A

Newbie Joined: Mar 04, 2012 04:32 Messages: 7 Offline

Apr 05, 2012 00:14

Thanks for the reply,
The C Drive is a 128gb SSD, yes I know there has been issues posted here concerning SSD drives. The output when producing goes to the 750 gb drive. This is kind of an experiment, if the drive configuration has issues I can go back to having the 750 my primary drive.
Edit: I just noticed it did not report any of the Nvida GeForce GPU properties just the Intel integrated properties.

Nate

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ynotfish

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Apr 05, 2012 01:21

Hmmm Nate -

I wonder why the DxDiag didn't report the GT 550M. Did you also run the 64-bit DxDiag?

In the trial version, what hardware acceleration been available to you?

Based on the specs supplied, & your experience with the trial, I'd say your laptop looks to be adequately equipped to edit video from your Drift HD Stealth camera... is it .MOV output or MPEG-4?

Cheers - Tony
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Apr 05, 2012 08:31

Nate A I have a i5 laptop with the sandy bridge with 6 GB of ram and it works good with PD 10. I use the Hero GoPro HD mpeg4. That Intel Quick Sync Video takes a lot of work off the cpu.

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Nate A

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Apr 05, 2012 20:55

Tony, the camera does .MOV
Here is the DXDiag after running the 64 bit.

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