Those 8700K processor is amazing, how easy it is to OCed 5ghz. 4GB card is fine but if you can get a 8gb card for good price. Of course 8gb is prefer . Cliff. I agreed. Nothing out there can beat Vegas for fast editing. This is where Vegas win them all.

I've always believed in the Vegas editing paradigm, it just hasn't been stable for me - until now so far. I nursed my old x58 system for close to 7 years and I think it just wasn't able to handle the latest software - handled Premiere CS6 pretty well as the tech of that time was pretty much on par with the software - things have moved forward and I'm not willing to be held hostage by Adobe hence why I toiled with CS6 for so long - I've said to others I feel like Vegas is the closest Windows equivalent in many ways to Final Cut X on the MAC - without the Apple tax.

I wish Vegas had a couple of features I'm going to miss in Premiere - true metadata input capabilities (Media Manager for Vegas is dead from what I understand) and the ability to playback interview footage and transcribe it to text - the latter especially is pretty amazing technology Adobe has incorporated into Premiere. Improving the color color correction tools to be more fluid and color accurate is on my wish list as well.

...Now to determine whether I need a 4Gb or 8GB card - thoughts?...

My feeling based on what I've read is that 4GB is fine for Vegas, but 8GB could be very useful for Resolve. At least that was the situation when I last looked into it properly a year or two ago. The latest Resolve seems to be functional on lower end systems than in the past, so the VRAM requirement may be lower than it was.

...Now to determine whether I need a 4Gb or 8GB card - thoughts?...

My feeling based on what I've read is that 4GB is fine for Vegas, but 8GB could be very useful for Resolve. At least that was the situation when I last looked into it properly a year or two ago. The latest Resolve seems to be functional on lower end systems than in the past, so the VRAM requirement may be lower than it was.

My understanding is that they have hard coded minimum spec requirements into Resolve and if your GPU doesn't meet them, it simply won't open. I've experienced this firsthand and TBH, Resolve wants all the hardware you can throw at it. I'm not very fond of the workflow although it is a self contained NLE - especially when Resolve 15 is released (The 15 beta crashed on me due to my GPU not meeting their minimum specs - at least 4GB VRAM and I believe a minimum of 256 bit bandwidth) Resolve 14 does work on my desktop, but I get the dreaded VRAM memory full error messages on render tests. And I can forget about laptop editing with Resolve - hence my wanting to move to Vegas all this time.

Thanks for that; much appreciated.

Doesn't seem like a prohibitively expensive setup: A grand for the CPU + mobo, and another grand for the GPU, memory, etc. and you have a great Vegas rig.

No problem. We are here to share information to help each other for the better. I have been running this set up for almost 5 years and its is still a very good combo as of now. This is now as my secondary editing rig. My primary editing rig is the new AMD1950X with Frontier Edition card. A lot more powerful system and much more enjoyable editing experience.

@@Bruceusa Have you tried rendering the Sony SCS Vwnxhmark project with your 1950X and Vega card setup? Would be nice to know how it fairs especially with the 4K version, my system is chocking on it.

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Do you have a real time preview @ best full when using 32bit project?