Dell Precision Workstation 650 Video Editing Computer Review (page 2)

With computers, you always pay a premium on the latest/greatest/fastest, and the harsh law of diminishing returns strictly applies here, with the extra real-world performance costing quite a lot of money over a single CPU Pentium 4 machine. In fact, in a single-thread pure render test, there was no performance advantage over an equivalent single Xeon 3.06GHz system. Still, if you commonly find yourself with a looming deadline, Premiere editing to be done and a complex AE composition to render - or, more simply, you wish you had another PC dedicated to renders - this machine can do it all.

• Rock stable
• Fastest machine we've seen
• Comprehensive, professional video software bundle

• Premium price
• Hyper-Thread hype

• Model Precision 650
• Platform PC
• Operating System Windows XP Pro
• Processors Dual Intel Xeon 3.06GHz (HT)
• RAM 1GB (DDR266 SDRAM)
• Hard Disk (system) 40GB (7,200 rpm)
• Hard Disk (system) 80GB (7,200 rpm)
• Sound Card Integrated on Motherboard
• Display Card ATI Fire GL E1
• Disc Writer NEC DVD+RW (ND1100A)
• Video In/Out FireWire
• Additional Hardware
• 10/100 NiC
• Ultra 160 SCSI
• Optical Mouse
• Keyboard
• Editing Software
• Premiere 6.5, After Effects 5.5
• Production Bundle, Photoshop 7.0
• MPEG-2 Render Speed 21.03fps

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