CPU Overhead or NO CPU Overhead?

crown2020 wrote on 4/24/2022, 5:35 PM

Hi guys. I can't seem to locate an older post I read on here over a year or two ago. It was addressing CPU overhead when encoding with Vegas Pro. I use Vegas Pro 17. The gist of the topic was only having Vegas Pro installed, on a Windows 10 machine, would produce much faster render times than a pc that has a lot of other programs installed along side of Vegas Pro.

Generally speaking, would I benefit from having a single PC that is dedicated to doing nothing but encoding with Vegas Pro? Do any among you do this? How has your millage been?

I would be considering the following for a dedicated encoding machine: I'm doing only SD right now but may move into some 4k work in the future.

Processor: Intel Core i9 i9-12900K Hexadeca-core (16 Core) 3.20 to 5.2GHz Processor

Motherboard: PRIME Z690-P D4 Intel® Z690 (LGA 1700) ATX motherboard with PCIe® 5.0, three M.2 slots DDR4

RAM: 32gb of DDR4

Graphics Card: GeForce RTX 3070 Ti XC3 "ULTRA GAMING"

Power Supply: Super NOVA 850 Watt

SSD M.2 Drives: (2) Samsung 980 Pro's Running on PCIe 4.0 NVME / 2 TB each / (Will be backed up daily using Casper v. 10)

SSD Drives: (2) Samsung 870 EVO's at 2 TB each with a read speed of 560mb/s and a write speed of 530mb/s

Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II - 280

That's the meat and potatoes of the specs. Let me know if any other info is needed.

Thanks to all, in advance, for your time.

Comments

DMT3 wrote on 4/24/2022, 5:57 PM

i have vegas 19 on two computers that are full of other apps. i dont see how it would make much difference because windows required apps are the only things running all of the time.

john_dennis wrote on 4/24/2022, 6:03 PM

@crown2020

Find something else to worry about. It's a FFIWT.

Former user wrote on 4/24/2022, 6:49 PM

@crown2020 I don't think you'd gain anything, if anything you might loose time through fannying around transferring files because occasionally there's the need of other software used when creating a project, unless you have a way around that & have another pc powerful enough to satisfy your Vegas needs for editing etc..

If this is a pc you have or are buying anyway just try it with one of the discs (PCIe 4.0 NVME) Windows + Vegas only n see, then boot your pc from the other PCIe 4.0 NVME with windows & all your existing programs transferred on inc Vegas n compare.

Personally i only have the programs i want on my main (C) drive (all temp project media is on the other M.2 drive) but i see no drag from those other programs & i limit to the minimum programs in the start-up option,

Right at the mo I have this page online open, a 30Gb folder open, a 25min 4k project on MEP, editing in progress but waiting while i take a break writing this, & Taskmanager open to show when i'm not typing my pc is doing very little, As said above i wouldn't worry about it.

When the editing suite is playing (pics below) it's similar to rendering, this is MEP but Vegas is the same, most of the pc power usage stuff is Windows, Nvidia GPU stuff & the editing software, + some AVG virus stuff.

BTW i've been through this thought process to try limit the negative affect on Vegas to help get the best from my pc, if you see a program using 'power' or getting in the way, if you can just turn it off, disable it.

 

EricLNZ wrote on 4/24/2022, 8:58 PM

@crown2020

Find something else to worry about. It's a FFIWT.

I cannot find an explanation/description on the internet for "FFIWT". @john_dennis what does it stand for?

john_dennis wrote on 4/24/2022, 9:02 PM

@EricLNZ

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/ot-avg-free-antivirus--102281/#ca629064