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BruceUSA wrote on 5/1/2019, 6:12 PM

JN. That is good. I am glad that some one able to matched it and a hair better. ;).

Ps. Without that AMD card he will never made it.

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CPU:  i9 Core Ultra 285K OCed @5.6Ghz  
MBO: MSI Z890 MEG ACE Gaming Wifi 7 10G Super Lan, thunderbolt 4
RAM: 48GB RGB DDR5 8200mhz
GPU: NVidia RTX 5080 16GB Triple fan OCed 3100mhz, Bandwidth 1152 GB/s     
NVMe: 2TB T705 Gen5 OS, 4TB Gen4 storage
MSI PSU 1250W. OS: Windows 11 Pro. Custom built hard tube watercooling

 

                                   

                 

               

 

BruceUSA wrote on 5/1/2019, 6:20 PM

Now the question is will the 5.1ghz capable do big editing project and stable? Day in and day out?. As its stands mine is working computer, for everything day in and day out.

CPU:  i9 Core Ultra 285K OCed @5.6Ghz  
MBO: MSI Z890 MEG ACE Gaming Wifi 7 10G Super Lan, thunderbolt 4
RAM: 48GB RGB DDR5 8200mhz
GPU: NVidia RTX 5080 16GB Triple fan OCed 3100mhz, Bandwidth 1152 GB/s     
NVMe: 2TB T705 Gen5 OS, 4TB Gen4 storage
MSI PSU 1250W. OS: Windows 11 Pro. Custom built hard tube watercooling

 

                                   

                 

               

 

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 5/1/2019, 6:29 PM

One thing I couldn't help noticing was how much the Radeon7 stood out from the crowd in the LUT test. I think it's probably pretty much the same as the Vega64 but in a smaller dye that should let it cool more efficiently. I've played with a Vega bios a bit and noticed it basically uses temperature limits to dynamically auto tune gpu voltage and clocking so I'd expect more efficient cooling to boost performance. I'm probably a little late to the party but after reading that article I only just now installed the free OFX 3D LUT Creator plugin for the first time and it looks quite interesting... wonder why Magix left it out from all the other OFX effects it supplies with Vegas. Puts Vegas right on par with Da Vinci color tuning. Looking forward to getting my hands on a Radeon7 to go with it. Btw, I get 25 sec on the red-car with an air cooled rx580.

IAM4UK wrote on 5/1/2019, 6:48 PM

Very happy I got the Vega 64 Frontier Edition...

TheRhino wrote on 5/1/2019, 6:49 PM

I'm using my 9900K for daily paid work, so I plan to keep it at a safe & quiet 5.0ghz. Even though it manages 5.1ghz without risky voltage or temp increases my radiator fans spin-up & my system is no longer quiet... Since the GPU is also liquid-cooled & I have M.2 drives, this system is dead-quiet at 5.0 ghz...

I keep seeing deals for Vega 56 & 64 since VII is here & Navi is arriving shortly. I got a Vega 64 liquid-cooled (refurbished) from Newegg for $350 USD. It shows no signs of dust or wear. IMO AMD is unloading the $300 - $400 range VEGA 56/64 to make room for NAVI while continuing to charge $700 US for the Radeon VII. So for the short-term, Vega 56/64 are a good bang/buck for us Vegas folks & they can be undervolted to save power...

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Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

petecarney wrote on 5/1/2019, 11:14 PM

I have a 1950x threadripper, radeon 7 box I just built up and it's not in the ball park. 33 sec is the fastest red car test I've gotten with every driver and version of vp16 I can try out. It's head and shoulders above my older intel nvidia machine, but nothing like these numbers folks are posting here.

Cheers, Pete

bitman wrote on 5/2/2019, 1:35 AM

Now the question is will the 5.1ghz capable do big editing project and stable? Day in and day out?. As its stands mine is working computer, for everything day in and day out.

Well it depends, apart from proper BIOS tuning, cooling, etc.., it is also matter of which application you run, and which type of processor you have:

1) the processor: for Intel the newer 9900K has a soldered TIM versus previous generations which helps a lot to get the heat out properly, that is why it is officially (no overclock) can go (single core) to 5GHz. That is why I got 8700K handpicked and de-lidded and improved TIM CPU from der8auer, it is tested by der8auer to 5.1 GHz with upping to 1.38V. Not that I want to overclock, as I do not, it just helps to keep the heat down and the noise. My system is fully air-cooled.

2) AVX code instructions (in all it's variants), Intel is more performant with AVX than AMD, but it's a double bladed knife: if the application does not use it, you are not going to benefit from it. I am not sure if Vegas use it, maybe some external plugins do. I know Magix's sister NLE Video pro X likely make use of it as they advertise this on their product website to improve speed on color correction and image processing. But here is the caveat, it is impossible to run AVX without heat issues when the processor is overclocked. That is why in motherboards suitable for overclocking you have settings to automatically lower the overclock multiplier if AVX instructions are used. Kind of defeats the purpose of improved speed with AVX support, at least when overclocking.

Note: you can test your overclocked CPU if it can cope with AVX if you use the newer versions of Prime95: Prime95 AVX versions such as 29.4 as compared to Prime95 non-AVX version 26.6.

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APPS: VIDEO: VP 365 suite (VP 22 build 194) VP 21 build 315, VP 365 20, VP 19 post (latest build -651), (uninstalled VP 12,13,14,15,16 Suite,17, VP18 post), Vegasaur, a lot of NEWBLUE plugins, Mercalli 6.0, Respeedr, Vasco Da Gamma 17 HDpro XXL, Boris Continuum 2025, Davinci Resolve Studio 18, SOUND: RX 10 advanced Audio Editor, Sound Forge Pro 18, Spectral Layers Pro 10, Audacity, FOTO: Zoner studio X, DXO photolab (8), Luminar, Topaz...

  • OS: Windows 11 Pro 64, version 24H2 (since October 2024)
  • CPU: i9-13900K (upgraded my former CPU i9-12900K),
  • Air Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 G2 HBC (September 2024 upgrade from Noctua NH-D15s)
  • RAM: DDR5 Corsair 64GB (5600-40 Vengeance)
  • Graphics card: ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 TUF OC GAMING (24GB) 
  • Monitor: LG 38 inch ultra-wide (21x9) - Resolution: 3840x1600
  • C-drive: Corsair MP600 PRO XT NVMe SSD 4TB (PCIe Gen. 4)
  • Video drives: Samsung NVMe SSD 2TB (980 pro and 970 EVO plus) each 2TB
  • Mass Data storage & Backup: WD gold 6TB + WD Yellow 4TB
  • MOBO: Gigabyte Z690 AORUS MASTER
  • PSU: Corsair HX1500i, Case: Fractal Design Define 7 (PCGH edition)
  • Misc.: Logitech G915, Evoluent Vertical Mouse, shuttlePROv2

 

 

TheRhino wrote on 5/2/2019, 7:59 AM

I have a 1950x threadripper, radeon 7 box I just built up and it's not in the ball park. 33 sec is the fastest red car test I've gotten with every driver and version of vp16 I can try out. It's head and shoulders above my older intel nvidia machine, but nothing like these numbers folks are posting here.

Cheers, Pete

I've been building my own custom Intel & AMD systems for over 25 years & video editing workstations for over 15... A lot of factors can affect Vegas performance because it is so resource intensive. For my 9900K I had to re-install the Intel GPU drivers AFTER installing my Radeon Vega drivers so that both GPUs would show-up in Vegas. As soon as I did this my Intel QSV render times dropped significantly.

I also use CCleaner to remove Vegas, clear the registry, restart computer, and then reinstall Vegas after the new CPU, GPU, etc. drivers are added. Once I get my system where I want it, I turn-off Windows updates the best I can, create a full image backup of the OS drive, and then test to make sure it works on a new drive. I also do a full image backup before installing any new apps, codecs, hardware, etc. Work files are on a RAID10 with backups on a server...

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

bitman wrote on 5/3/2019, 4:39 AM

I redid the 'red car' test on different DRAM settings on Vegas 16 and on Vegas 15, Vegas 15 renders 'red car' almost 30% faster than Vegas 16!

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/dynamic-ram-preview-max-and-how-it-affects-render-speeds-vp16--115616/#ca717068

APPS: VIDEO: VP 365 suite (VP 22 build 194) VP 21 build 315, VP 365 20, VP 19 post (latest build -651), (uninstalled VP 12,13,14,15,16 Suite,17, VP18 post), Vegasaur, a lot of NEWBLUE plugins, Mercalli 6.0, Respeedr, Vasco Da Gamma 17 HDpro XXL, Boris Continuum 2025, Davinci Resolve Studio 18, SOUND: RX 10 advanced Audio Editor, Sound Forge Pro 18, Spectral Layers Pro 10, Audacity, FOTO: Zoner studio X, DXO photolab (8), Luminar, Topaz...

  • OS: Windows 11 Pro 64, version 24H2 (since October 2024)
  • CPU: i9-13900K (upgraded my former CPU i9-12900K),
  • Air Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 G2 HBC (September 2024 upgrade from Noctua NH-D15s)
  • RAM: DDR5 Corsair 64GB (5600-40 Vengeance)
  • Graphics card: ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 TUF OC GAMING (24GB) 
  • Monitor: LG 38 inch ultra-wide (21x9) - Resolution: 3840x1600
  • C-drive: Corsair MP600 PRO XT NVMe SSD 4TB (PCIe Gen. 4)
  • Video drives: Samsung NVMe SSD 2TB (980 pro and 970 EVO plus) each 2TB
  • Mass Data storage & Backup: WD gold 6TB + WD Yellow 4TB
  • MOBO: Gigabyte Z690 AORUS MASTER
  • PSU: Corsair HX1500i, Case: Fractal Design Define 7 (PCGH edition)
  • Misc.: Logitech G915, Evoluent Vertical Mouse, shuttlePROv2

 

 

Former user wrote on 5/3/2019, 5:57 AM

 

@BruceUSA

Are you getting a case of "tech megalomania?" 😀 Anyway, your results are reflected in the Techgage article - looks like the Vega 64 cards are real winners for Vegas (also popular with some of the more technical members of the DR forums). Too bad the Canadian dollar has sunk so low...for now I can only dream.

No. Perhaps i did not clarify myself better. My statement mainly imply to those insisted nivida that and that.

 

When you VCE encode are you using the QUALITY setting, which is the only one that should be considered for this purpose, or are you using another VCE setting?

Former user wrote on 5/3/2019, 10:23 AM

FWIW When I use say Nvenc, VCE or Qsv I have always used the default settings.  I wouldn't use that if it was for anything other than testing, I would use the best quality available.

There's a pdf supplied with the red car test, it includes the render settings. "For Vegas Pro 11 the “MainConcept AVC Internet HD 1080p” template was used.  If its to remain a valid benchmark then users should continue to use these settings, otherwise it's not a case of comparing like with like. 

This is the Magix Mainconcept one I use, in the day it was the MC one that's now in "Legacy" settings.  This is probably what most other users have used, I guess.

 ."

 

Adi-W wrote on 5/3/2019, 11:20 AM

And does the render is done at Good or Best (Full) ?

Former user wrote on 5/3/2019, 2:00 PM

Not sure I understand, render for Magix MC as template above. Render default all basically.

Adi-W wrote on 5/3/2019, 2:28 PM

Ok, I have my answer: you have to be sure that preview for the "red car" project is set at Best (Full) otherwise the test render could be done only at Good depending of your actual project preview setting.
 

Former user wrote on 5/3/2019, 5:24 PM

FWIW When I use say Nvenc, VCE or Qsv I have always used the default settings.  I wouldn't use that if it was for anything other than testing, I would use the best quality available.

Judging by encoding time alone, it seems Nvenc default is the same as 'high performance' rather than 'high quality' which is slower. I know at least one person here has said they believe the quality of encode is all the same for Vegas Nvenc, but I don't know how thorough they did their comparison. I do some lowbitrate encoding 2.5 mbit (720p) for content delivery at that bitrate & I don't trust any hardware encoding at those bitrates. VCE AVC is by far the worst in this scenario

Former user wrote on 5/3/2019, 6:48 PM

Hi @Former user yes i’ve seen comments to that effect. When I get a chance i’ll do a comparison ffmpeg ssim/psnr comparing with what i’ve already done. The settings i’ve used for HO render quality metrics are 135/100mbps, preset HQ, RC mode Vbr HQ, so i’ll just do default nvenc which is Preset default, RC mode vbr.

When I do red car test I just use default. When I do the HO and ffmpeg tests I use nvenc HQ, i.e. preset=High quality, RC mode=VBR - high quality

Just tried on laptop, no go, zero file size each time with nvenc default setting. I can still create the preset=High quality, RC mode=VBR - high quality file.

I'll give it a go on my PC tomorrow.

Former user wrote on 5/4/2019, 5:54 AM

Ok, got it to work no problem on PC.
The Nvenc default is better quality, using the ffmpeg test, than the Nvenc High quality vbr.
I used the same source I had previously used for the HO and ffmpeg testing, 4K UHD, 25fps, 27s duration, rendered out to same specs, using Magix MC Nvenc.

 

Higher is better ...

Encode mode: NV Encoder
Preset:            High quality
RC Mode -      VBR high quality

SSIM All: 0.985013 (18.242843)   PSNR (Avg.): 43.122470
---------------------------------------------------------------------


Encode mode: NV Encoder
Preset:            Default
RC Mode -      VBR

SSIM All: 0.985732 (18.456408)   PSNR (Avg.): 43.426891
--------------------------------------------------------------------   

High Quality rendered file ...
Size .. 305 mb
Data rate .. 94606 kbps

Default rendered file ...
Size .. 307 mb
Data rate .. 95229 kbps
------------------------------------------------

IAM4UK wrote on 5/8/2019, 9:00 AM

With this talk of how VEGAS Pro uses GPU, I thought I'd share this observation from today:
My brother wanted to stitch together some video clips, and I suggested to him that there's a free program called "Davinci" that he could try to use for that purpose. Since he didn't know how to use it, I decided to try to help...I downloaded, installed it on my own machine. That program told me my GPU was too WEAK for it! It's a VEGA 64 Frontier Edition!

TheRhino wrote on 5/8/2019, 10:48 AM

OC'd 9900K to 5.0 ghz and achieved 15s on Red Car on 6/8 tests. Two were 14s...

Ran stable for 1 week, so keeping system at 5.0ghz. What I learned from tests are that Vega 64 GPU contributes even when Intel GPU/QSV is selected. Also, drivers matter. If I choose very latest AMD & Intel drivers my render speeds slow a bit.... IMO combining Intel 9900k with AMD gpu gives benefit of both for various FX & codecs that favor one over other. If you choose Threadripper you lose QSV...m

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Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

OldSmoke wrote on 5/8/2019, 12:36 PM

OC'd 9900K to 5.0 ghz and achieved 15s on Red Car on 6/8 tests. Two were 14s...

I got 18sec on my old system... I think I skip another generation before I update.

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Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
Hard drives: System Samsung 970Pro NVME, AV-Projects 1TB (4x Intel P7600 512GB VROC), 4x 2.5" Hotswap bays, 1x 3.5" Hotswap Bay, 1x LG BluRay Burner

PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

fr0sty wrote on 5/8/2019, 7:06 PM

I bit on an AMD card... Radeon VII, when it arrives friday. I'll let you know how much better it turns out vs. my current GTX 970.

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Systems:

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 8 core 16 thread at stock speed

64GB 3000mhz DDR4

Geforce RTX 3090

Windows 10

Laptop:

ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo 32GB (9980HK CPU, RTX 2060 GPU, dual 4K touch screens, main one OLED HDR)

Adi-W wrote on 5/8/2019, 8:01 PM

@OldSmoke I also have a Radeon Fury-X but I am far from getting 18sec on the red car test. Can you tell me with which exact render setting you are getting such result ?

OldSmoke wrote on 5/8/2019, 8:18 PM

@OldSmoke I also have a Radeon Fury-X but I am far from getting 18sec on the red car test. Can you tell me with which exact render setting you are getting such result ?

I am using the default 1080 29.97p VCE template.

Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
Hard drives: System Samsung 970Pro NVME, AV-Projects 1TB (4x Intel P7600 512GB VROC), 4x 2.5" Hotswap bays, 1x 3.5" Hotswap Bay, 1x LG BluRay Burner

PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

Adi-W wrote on 5/8/2019, 11:00 PM

Thanks, I have a i7 2600K @ 4.4GHz and with the default VCE template I am getting 26sec. I suppose it is time for me to upgrade my CPU...