Want to Build New Video Editing PC - Have CPU support questions?..

bluezdawg

Newbie Location: Boulder, Colorado Joined: Nov 21, 2017 23:06 Messages: 3 Offline

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Nov 21, 2017 23:19

I plan on building a new video editing PC on Cycber Monday. A couple of questions:

Does PowerDirector 15 and/or 16 support the AMD Ryzen 1700x and/or the Intel i7 8700k CPU's? Would hate to build and not have it work! Leaning towards Ryzen 1700x, seem to get a bigger bang for the buck. Thoughts?

If anyone is using these, any recommendations on motherboards and GPUs?

Cheers,

'dawg

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Cartof

Newbie Joined: Aug 11, 2017 06:12 Messages: 41 Offline

Nov 21, 2017 23:43

Quote I plan on building a new video editing PC on Cycber Monday. A couple of questions:

Does PowerDirector 15 and/or 16 support the AMD Ryzen 1700x

PD16 works fine on my setup eating around 30% from my R7 1800x and around 30% from my GTX1080 when rendering a 50 Mbit/s 1080p movie to 4K 50 Mbit/s.

bluezdawg

Newbie Location: Boulder, Colorado Joined: Nov 21, 2017 23:06 Messages: 3 Offline

Nov 27, 2017 09:37

Thanks for the feedback! Found some great Cyber Monday deals. Ended up building a rig with the Pentium i7 8700k, 32gb ram, GeForce 1080ti graphics card, 500gb m2 SSD, 2tb sata HD, 800watt power supply, liquid cooled. Should do the trick for a couple of years!

Cheers

Quote

Quote I plan on building a new video editing PC on Cycber Monday. A couple of questions:

Does PowerDirector 15 and/or 16 support the AMD Ryzen 1700x

PD16 works fine on my setup eating around 30% from my R7 1800x and around 30% from my GTX1080 when rendering a 50 Mbit/s 1080p movie to 4K 50 Mbit/s.

"Never take life to seriously, you'll never get out alive!"
'dawg

Alain II

Member Joined: Jan 20, 2015 01:34 Messages: 136 Offline

Nov 27, 2017 11:08

Quote Thanks for the feedback! Found some great Cyber Monday deals. Ended up building a rig with the Pentium i7 8700k, 32gb ram, GeForce 1080ti graphics card, 500gb m2 SSD, 2tb sata HD, 800watt power supply, liquid cooled. Should do the trick for a couple of years!

Cheers

Quote

Quote I plan on building a new video editing PC on Cycber Monday. A couple of questions:

Does PowerDirector 15 and/or 16 support the AMD Ryzen 1700x

PD16 works fine on my setup eating around 30% from my R7 1800x and around 30% from my GTX1080 when rendering a 50 Mbit/s 1080p movie to 4K 50 Mbit/s.

Hello,

Please let the community know how good this new configuration works?

There's a tiny app called TechPowerUp GPU-Z that is interesting to check GPU when running PD and others.

Success, and we hope to read you soon.

Thanks.

Alain II

bluezdawg

Newbie Location: Boulder, Colorado Joined: Nov 21, 2017 23:06 Messages: 3 Offline

Nov 27, 2017 15:31

Quote

Quote Thanks for the feedback! Found some great Cyber Monday deals. Ended up building a rig with the Pentium i7 8700k, 32gb ram, GeForce 1080ti graphics card, 500gb m2 SSD, 2tb sata HD, 800watt power supply, liquid cooled. Should do the trick for a couple of years!

Cheers

Quote

Quote I plan on building a new video editing PC on Cycber Monday. A couple of questions:

Does PowerDirector 15 and/or 16 support the AMD Ryzen 1700x

PD16 works fine on my setup eating around 30% from my R7 1800x and around 30% from my GTX1080 when rendering a 50 Mbit/s 1080p movie to 4K 50 Mbit/s.

Hello,

Please let the community know how good this new configuration works?

There's a tiny app called TechPowerUp GPU-Z that is interesting to check GPU when running PD and others.

Success, and we hope to read you soon.

Thanks.

Alain II

Alain,

My system should ship mid December. Hope to spend some time on it over the holidays. Will look for the app you mentioned and give it a try. Hope to have some good HD drone footage to process by then. Pretty new to PD. Installed PD 15 on my laptop, but it was a real dog, lol. This should be a major step up.

Rick "Never take life to seriously, you'll never get out alive!"
'dawg