Adding > 2 gigs of ram may not speed rendering but helps, no doubt, if you want to do other tasks while rendering. I have 4 gigs of ram on a Q6600 and at least, I don't feel like rendering slows down when I continue working while rendering.

3:26 with Vegas 8.0a

Core2 Duo 2.66Ghz E6750 overclocked to 3.0Ghz
Asus P5K-E WiFi/AP
2GB DDR2-800 OCZ RAM, 4-4-4-15

I'm pretty happy with that result, personally. It seems to compare favourably with the results posted by others with similar setups, and it doesn't seem too far behind the Quads.

Just out of curiousity, though, I'm hoping someone could run this test with a QX6850, 3.0Ghz ,1333Mhz FSB CPU. I wonder how it would compare to the Q6600, which most of the quad core owners here seem to use. I wouldn't expect many people to have this processor, though, given the obscene price.

I still work mostly in SD, so I really don't require a Quad Core yet. However, when the new 45nm quads come out next year, I may pick one up. That was one of the main reasons I went with the P35 chipset.

2:01 on a QX6700 with 2 gigs of memory; everything stock.

for comparison, my former amd 4800+ did it in 6:42. The machines feel nearly identical, you can sure see how the intel quad flies through rendering.

For what it's worth, I'm putting together a system for a friend based on the Q6600 and have pretty strong machines priced out near $950 (not including cost of windows) with all the parts from new egg. That's is unbelievable power for the price.

Sean

Veg file save on C drive


Render to 60i mpg2 HDV default (as Johns original settings
2.19

Same as above but render to 50i
1.56

Task manager, outlook express and ie were open when this was run.

mobo is an Asrock 4CoreDual running IDE drives, 2gb ram at 667mhz both ways and a Q6600 @ 2.4ghz stock.
System is yet to be overclocked

My single core 3.0 did this in 13 minutes or somethng like that...

DJ, are these benchmarks for 8 or 32bit video setting?

8 bit on an old install

Using V7 latest release (e i think)

my System Q6600 quad no O/Cking 2 gig ram etc..
Running V8a
2:18 HDV 60i

what Ive been rendering many of my projects to becuase of black frame issue on the 60i template, is HDV 720 30p template:0:27 seconds ! in the words of Howard Dean "YEEEEEEAAAAHHHH"!!!!

UPDATED:
MB: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3P Rev 2.0
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, G0
Heatsink: Thermalright ULTIMA-90
Video: XFX 7800GT, 256MB, NV Silencer 5 (Rev. 3)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 4GB (4x1GB) DDR2 800 (BL2KIT12864AA804) (4-4-4-12, 2.2V)
RAID: LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-2E 8x PCIe
Disk0: 144GB (5) Maxtor Atlas 15K II 36GB in Raid 5 (StripSz:64KB,WrPolicy:WriteBack,RdAhead:Adaptive)
Disk1: 750GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS
CD/DVD1: NEC 3550A
CD/DVD2: Samsung SH-S203B
CD/DVD3: Samsung SH-S203B
PS1: SeaSonic S12 II 500W
Case: Cooler Master STC-T01 Stacker-Black
Frnt Fan: Scythe SY1225SL12SL, 120x25mm, 3-PIN, 800 RPM, 11.0dBA, 40CFM
Frnt Fan: Scythe SY1225SL12SL, 120x25mm, 3-PIN, 800 RPM, 11.0dBA, 40CFM
Rear Fan: Scythe SY1225SL12M, 120x25mm, 3-PIN, 1200 RPM, 24.0dBA, 69CFM
CPU Fan: Scythe SY1225SL12M, 120x25mm, 3-PIN, 1200 RPM, 24.0dBA, 69CFM
Top Fan: Sunon KD1208PTB2 80x25mm, @5V, 1248RPM, 13dBA, 16CFM
Bttm Fan: Zalman PS92252H, 92X25mm, @5V, 1176RPM, 15.1dBA, 22CFM

Phenom 9500 +asus +2 gigs ddr2 800.( Not overclocked)

3.17 min.

turns out the Asrock Boards (what im using) have the tendency to Underclock.
Ive just set my sync back to normal and (CPU sync to Rama dn PCI bus speed) and ill be doing anther rnder test once i finish these emails.. will post results once completed..

Mind you, im rendering to IDE drives, and my ram is only rated at 667mhz both ways... Consideirng how lowly a spec for a quad this is, im surprised at the results..

5:57

AMD FX-60
Vista x64
2 GB RAM
Vega 8.0a

Meh, i ran the sync.. same times..
funny thoguh that leaving outlook express open added 2 seconds to the render time.
Leaving Limwire and or Bitcomet on also added 2 seconds..

I guess with rendering the get the most out of it entirely ne needs to kill any unnecesary apps... even if they dont actively use the CPU

4:31

HP Pavillion HDX 9200 Laptop


Mike

Just to give you all a chuckle, I had to try it on my 1.7 Athlon XP2100+

26:06

Maybe it's my time to upgrade?

speaking of upgrades, when i had my old setup i used to think it was the bees knees for DV... hell it worked a treat, was faster than realtime and it was only a single core 3.0 extreme. There were times where heavy maths killed it, but in all it was a good setupp. So good that im moving that across through to the older office machine and turning it into a hybrid draft box as well..
So even if u think the system might be low specced, theres dfefiantely a use for it.. and the more systems you have, the less likely you have to stop your work in case of failure ir system issues.. its simple matter fo swapping media drives and contnuing..

Hi All,

Just finalized the installation of Vegas 8.0b on my new killer video editing rig - you should now see my grinning face :)

The new Rendertest-HDV.veg renders in 1:37 - that is 97 seconds!!
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My configuration is as follows:
OS: Windows XP X64, SP2
Mobo: ASUS P5E3 DeLuxe Wifi-AP, Bios 0903
CPU: Intel Quad Core 2 Extreme QX9650 @ 3.20GHz
GPU: NVIDIA Geoforce 8800GT 512MB DDR3
DRAM: 4GByte @ 1333MHz (2 x 2GB DD3, Corsair TWIN3X4096-1600C7DHXIN)
Internal HD: Total 1TB (2 x 500GB Samsung HD501LJ SATA 2.0

And this is WITHOUT any overclocking, and there is a lot of headroom to overclock!!! Ok , this did not come cheap, but it was worth it, I think ??!!

Please let me know - what is my ranking in this "contest" ???

Best regards,

Christian

PS: I'll be back later with some overclocking info...

97 seconds is excellent and certainly the fastest score so far on a non-overclocked system. Congratulations! Overclocking your chip seems to be a pretty trivial task. Using air cooling, like a Thermalright Ultra-120, I've seen people easily getting 3.60 to 3.85GHz; with water cooling, I've heard of 3.8 to 4.2GHz. Also, when video apps start supporting the SSE4 instructions, expect to see render times go down significantly.

I had overclocked my year-old QX6700 up to 3.73 Ghz and got an 85 second render on this test. Even though I ran it for a couple of days at that speed and it seemed to be stable, I backed it down and have left it at 3.0 Ghz.

John

Hi John,

Just loaded the new AI suite from ASUS (the former version did not work after a mobo bios update), and did some initial experimenting overclocking the CPU.

The QX9650 runs rock solid (rendered first a long project that took more than an hour to render) overclocked @ 3,82 GHz and cooled by the biggest Zahlman fan, so I tried again your new rendertest:

The NEW Rendertest runs now in 1:22 = 82 seconds !!!
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Not bad, uh ? Such moments like this makes me forget the pain that I suffered paying for the components :)

Now if only the Sony Vegas people would look seriously at the SSE4 instructions...

I have still to experiment how far I can reliably push my system CPU and DDR3 memory. Looks possible to ever run much faster. The reliability is nothing I want to compromize, but will however push the overclocking to the edge, just for curiosity.

At this clock setting I am now rendering DV (PAL) faster than realtime in projects that even incorporate heavy color correction :)

Wonder when someone breaks this record ;)

Best regards,

Christian

This is beginning to sound like a gaming forum!

Test results for AMD Phenom 9600, 2gb DDR2 1066mhz:
3:14

but two things to note:
*my IDE drive runs the OS & page file. My MB only has 1 IDE hookup so both the C Drive & DVD-RW are on the same cable. Rendering to a SATA drive
*AMD Overdrove says the CPU is running @ 1.8ghz while every other piece of software (cpu-z, amd temp/speed monitor, MB monitoring software) says 2.3

IMHO, in relation to the price of the CPU's other people have that are getting ~2:00 on the test, I'd say I have MUCH better FPS-per-buck ($700 Intel = 120s = $5.80 per frame to render that fast vs $240 AMD = 194s = $1.24 per frame to render).

Test results for E2160@3.2GHz (Vcore set=1.2525V), 2GB DDR2-400 (Vdimm set=2.125V) running V8b:


3:30


In terms of FPS-per-buck, it's $83/210s= $0.40

It's curious the small impact of L2 cache size on our rendertest. This chip only has 1MB per core.

Running Vegas Pro 8b on dual Quad Core XEON 5355 2.66ghz

2 minutes, 10 seconds

My CPU never went beyong 58% during the render. I wonder what the time would have been with it going at 100%.

If anyone know how to make that happen, please let me know.