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TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/14/2010, 5:03 AM
I haven't used one, but if Vegas 9 is like 8, not everything uses multicore so you would see great improvements in some things & little in others.

But if you're like me you'll not only use the extra cores in a single instance of Vegas, you'll use it for multiple instances. There's been many times during the past three 48hour film project's that having two instances of Vegas open, each with two cores, sped things up a LOT when editing & rendering.
ritsmer wrote on 6/14/2010, 8:07 AM
I also have not used a six core - but I have a 2 x quad Xeon machine here.
And when rendering Vegas uses all 8 physical cores - sometimes up to 100 pct - and so the format that I mostly use (mpeg-2 1080i 20 Mbps) is rendered a little faster than the actual duration (i.e. 15 mins video is rendered in 13 minutes)
Sebaz wrote on 6/14/2010, 8:30 AM
I recently upgraded my system with the Phenom II 1090T and 16 GB of RAM and editing is very smooth. I can play three AVCHD tracks at the same time in a multicam track with no problem, but in the 32 bit version, not the 64 bit one. However, to really squeeze its juice you have to perform the memory hack in this thread:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=648031

You can use the 64 bit version but it's buggy and crashes a lot more than the 32 bit version, I know from experience. Also playback is smoother in the 32 bit version. Also after applying the hack, you have to modify the internal preferences to be able to use more than 4 threads and to be able to use more than 1024 MB for RAM preview.

Dreamline wrote on 6/14/2010, 9:59 AM
The 64 bit version rocks... very fast and very stable

which is why the 64 bit version of RED is so important as well as the Canon 300 series at 422. HD is finally settling down to something worth wild. Now if we could just have 60P and BD as the norm in every household we would have a real revolution.

bigrock wrote on 6/14/2010, 10:28 AM
Any guesses on whether a 6 core Amd will outperform a 4 core I7 on Vegas. I suspect it will.
dxdy wrote on 6/14/2010, 10:53 AM
There's another thread here with a link to a TomsHardware benchmark.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=714806

The Mainconcept transcoding test ran almost as fast on the AMD six-core as the I7-875k.

Whether this is representative of your Vegas load is something to determine experimentally.