Xeon 3.4 single processor or 2 Quad 2.4 for video editing?

1. harveyvideo
   Member

   

   Should I upgrade to a 2 Quad computer 2.4, from Dell or HP, or is my current computer faster for editing video?

    This is my current computer:

   Processor 3.40GHz/1MB Xeon 800FSB
   OS Windows XP Professional
   Cache Memory 1 MB L2
   Memory 2 GB DDR2-400 ECC reg
   Optical Drive Lightscribe DVD-DL
   Maxtor SCSI Hard Drive 136 GB
   2 - Seagate 73GB SATA hard drives 10,000 RPM
   NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 PCI Express

   Posted 4 years ago #

2. Johnboy
   Member

   

   are you doing HDV or SD work.  Your current setup is fine for Vegas, except for storage and capture.  I would definitely recommend larger hard drives for capture and rendering since 1 hour of dv or hdv is 13 gigabytes.  And make sure you are capturing and rendering to a drive OTHER than your system drive.

   John

   Posted 4 years ago #

3. PaulDelVecchio
   Member

   

   I like Quads... but your system should be good for SD work. I second Johnboy. Get more storage space. It's so cheap nowadays. I think 500GB is like 129 on http://www.newegg.com.

   Posted 4 years ago #

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