Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/27/05 15:31

"Ambra" wrote ...
> sorry if I bother someone with this but I need some suggestion
> on what kind of computer (motherboard/processor/RAM) I
> would need in order to reduce or maybe even totaly avoid
> rendering in Premiere 6.5?
> Now I have apoor Pentium4 1,6GHz, and some 256MB RAM....
> I am considering a purchase of dual-processor from e-bay but
> I am wandering if this will actually help...:(

Nothing you can do to *eliminate* rendering, no matter how
fast/good the hardware. It is software dependent and if you
choose to stick with 6.5, you are limited by how it works.

The things that increase the rendering speed are...
1) Faster CPU. Note that 6.5 does NOT take advantage of
multiple processors (whether separate chips or dual-core,
etc.) That is just the way they wrote it. Sorry. I work at
Intel, so of course I have a personal preference. You might
want to wait until early next year to see what will happen
if you can wait that long?
2) More RAM. If you want "fast" 512MB would be the
minimum. I would look for a MB that takes at least 2GB
or even 4GB. And buy RAM while it is cheap.
3) Fast hard drive I/O. The drives themselves are pretty
much all sufficiently fast, but how you connect them makes
some difference in speed/throughput. I greatly prefer
several independent hard drives to fads like RAID arrays.
Especially using separate drives (ON DIFFERENT BUSSES)
as the "source" and "destination" for the rendering, etc.

Get as fast a single-core CPU as you can afford and a
MB that supports 2GB to 4GB of RAM, and enough
disk I/O (including separate plug-in boards if necessary)
to support at least a couple of independent hard drives.

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