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rs170a wrote on 8/24/2005, 3:45 PM
A guy on the Cow forum recently posted some speed results on his new AMD system and he reported the following results. All I can say is "Santa, I know what I want for Christmas!!

Mike

AMD 64 x2 4800+ in an Asus A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard.
1 GIG (for now) PC 3200 DDR 400 .
CPU has 2x 1 MB cache

Render test using a minute of DV footage with some demanding FX and also resized and flipped it upside down.

Using Vegas 6.0b, here are comparative render times:

Dual Xeon 2.6 - 1 hour 25 min.
Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz - 1 hour 15 min.
Athlon 64 4000+ (single core) - 0 hours 32 min
Athlon 64 4800+ dual core - 0 hours 16min
DGrob wrote on 8/24/2005, 4:40 PM
Just be careful of your DVD burner.

I have:

Processor(s)
Processor 1
Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
Manufacturer: AuthenticAMD
Caption: x86 Family 15 Model 35 Stepping 2
Version: Model 3, Stepping 2
Processor Id: 178BFBFF00020F32
Current Clock Speed: 2412MHz
Address Width: 32Bits
Data Width: 32Bits
Socket Designation: Socket 939
Processor 2
Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
Manufacturer: AuthenticAMD
Caption: x86 Family 15 Model 35 Stepping 2
Version: Model 3, Stepping 2
Processor Id: 178BFBFF00020F32
Current Clock Speed: 2412MHz
Address Width: 32Bits
Data Width: 32Bits
Socket Designation: Socket 939

Motherboard Information
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Product: A8N-SLI DELUXE

all with an _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A DL DVD Combo Drive.

VEGAS6 NOR DVDA3 SEE THE DVD DRIVE! SONY SUPPORT STILL WORKING ON IT, I HOPE, I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THEM IN A WHILE.

It's a pain, gotta rip audio via wmp and burn my dvds via Nero 6 Recode.

Darryl
winrockpost wrote on 8/24/2005, 4:47 PM
hmmm, not good to hear. I only played with the system for a half hour or so, long enough to know it was lightning fast, and I wanted it, Hope madison gets on it.
GaryKleiner wrote on 8/24/2005, 5:21 PM
That was me.

I am also getting full frame-rate playback with color correction, etc. applied to DV footage. :-)
If you make your living by editing, I would say this investment is a no-brainer.

Gary
p@mast3rs wrote on 8/24/2005, 5:34 PM
"Athlon 64 4800+ dual core - 0 hours 16min"

How much do these systems cost currently? Just curious.
rs170a wrote on 8/24/2005, 5:42 PM
Gary , my apologies for not crediting you as the Cow poster.

Mike
TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/24/2005, 6:00 PM
CPU's betwee ~$400-1k for the 64 varient. Opterons go up ~2.5x :) That's the down side.

however, all you need is a motherboard that supports the 939 socket. So, if you've got one of those it could be only a $500 upgrade for a termendious boost. :)

oh, winrock... tell your son that CS won't run any faster with that duel core then with a single core. Tell him there's no plans for games to fully support duel core (to their full power) for yers & that he should trade you, and you give him an extra $200 cash to buy a couple newgames with (Quake 4 & Serious Sam 2 come out this fall!)

Serious! See what he says! :D
ibliss wrote on 8/25/2005, 2:48 AM
Nevermind realtime video playback, does this CPU let you run Acoustic Mirror at max quality setting in real-time? Surely the most telling test of it's performance! :)
Avanti wrote on 8/25/2005, 7:17 AM
winrock,
Tell your son he can live in your house, and you'll feed him ........all for the low price of a computer.
jlafferty wrote on 8/25/2005, 11:27 AM
Nevermind realtime video playback, does this CPU let you run Acoustic Mirror at max quality setting in real-time? Surely the most telling test of it's performance! :)

That's similar to my suggestion: nevermind render times, how fast does it launch the Media Manager? :D
winrockpost wrote on 8/25/2005, 1:59 PM
.........................That's similar to my suggestion: nevermind render times, how fast does it launch the Media Manager?

Can't answer either question, he already dumped Vegas off the system, jumped ship a while back , but I DO believe he will be building me one within the month, then I'll know.
frazerb wrote on 8/25/2005, 4:40 PM
Is it the fact that it is dual-core or the fact that it is 64 that makes the difference.
JJKizak wrote on 8/25/2005, 5:16 PM
With just the short time of fiddling with the dual core AMD 4600 with the wrong bios it was fast,,,,,,,,real fast. When it boots you see the windows screen then you start waiting like normal but you don't have to wait. It has the impact of "Shane".

JJK