Interim PC for Vegas Pro Advice

GFM wrote on 3/29/2024, 7:18 AM

Hey guys, first off thanks so much for your input into the new system I am looking to build up. While waiting for that to be put together, I have gotten hold of an interim computer. I can’t get exact specs for them. The specs I do have, looking at the system requirements, they do seem to match to the recommended minimum.

CPU i9-9900X

MB ROG STRIX X299-XE Gaming

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX970

Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD

RAM 32Gb (can’t find the exact specs)

HDD Western Digital Red Plus 2TB

I was thinking of using this as my reserve computer until I can get the other one made up.

What do you think? Is this going to be sufficient?

Thanks and best regards!

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Dexcon wrote on 3/29/2024, 7:41 AM

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX970

From https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/specifications/#productMenu the GTX 9xxx series of GPU is the minimum recommeded for Vegas Pro 21.

i9-9900X

Seems okay but others will know better

Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD

If M.2 even better.

HDD Western Digital Red Plus 2TB

WD Red is a NAS drive. For 4K I would have gone for a WD Black - unless the HDD is only for storgae but not live editing - but would likely be okay for HD editing.

RogerS wrote on 3/30/2024, 3:14 AM

That system is fine for now. If you have a GPU you are thinking of getting for the new system buy it early and this system with a new GPU really might be all you need for a while.

Samsung M2 SSD is a good one- I got the more affordable 980 and have not hit transfer speed limits.

Wolfgang S. wrote on 3/30/2024, 5:54 AM

Invest in a better GPU. Will become even more important in the future.

Former user wrote on 3/30/2024, 6:35 PM

That sounds very acceptable, 4.4ghz boost on cpu, that's all my CPU does, works good, your GPU is gtx1060 speed, faster then the AMD 480/580/590's in general but maybe not faster in Vegas, the AMD's were a favorite here. no IGPU, would be better if you had one, but as an interim system, it's fine.

Wolfgang S. wrote on 3/31/2024, 8:11 AM

The CPU should be number of cores - 10 cores are fine. However, the major disadvantage of this CPU is, that the i9-9900X has no i-GPU. And the i-GPU has become more and more important for decoding, especially if you wish to edit HEVC 10bit 422 footage (this footage cannot be decoded by the nvidia or AMD GPUs). The playback performance is dramatically different for this footage.

So, I would think about to look for a CPU that is equipred with an i-GPU from Intel.

GFM wrote on 3/31/2024, 8:59 AM

The CPU should be number of cores - 10 cores are fine. However, the major disadvantage of this CPU is, that the i9-9900X has no i-GPU. And the i-GPU has become more and more important for decoding, especially if you wish to edit HEVC 10bit 422 footage (this footage cannot be decoded by the nvidia or AMD GPUs). The playback performance is dramatically different for this footage.

So, I would think about to look for a CPU that is equipred with an i-GPU from Intel.

Hi Wolfgang S, thank you for your advice, I'd completely forgotten this one! I think I will have to spare the expense for this interim computer and save it towards the other build I was asking about. Since you talk about i-GPU, would your advice be to get the original Intel i5-14600K with an i-GPU (Intel® UHD Graphics 770), or get CPU and GPU separate? If so which would you recommend?

Thanks!

GFM wrote on 3/31/2024, 9:00 AM

That sounds very acceptable, 4.4ghz boost on cpu, that's all my CPU does, works good, your GPU is gtx1060 speed, faster then the AMD 480/580/590's in general but maybe not faster in Vegas, the AMD's were a favorite here. no IGPU, would be better if you had one, but as an interim system, it's fine.

Thank you UltraVista, I think that makes perfect sense as I want to focus every expense I can on the new build.

RogerS wrote on 3/31/2024, 9:54 AM

The CPU should be number of cores - 10 cores are fine. However, the major disadvantage of this CPU is, that the i9-9900X has no i-GPU. And the i-GPU has become more and more important for decoding, especially if you wish to edit HEVC 10bit 422 footage (this footage cannot be decoded by the nvidia or AMD GPUs). The playback performance is dramatically different for this footage.

So, I would think about to look for a CPU that is equipred with an i-GPU from Intel.

Hi Wolfgang S, thank you for your advice, I'd completely forgotten this one! I think I will have to spare the expense for this interim computer and save it towards the other build I was asking about. Since you talk about i-GPU, would your advice be to get the original Intel i5-14600K with an i-GPU (Intel® UHD Graphics 770), or get CPU and GPU separate? If so which would you recommend?

Thanks!

@GFM It's not either or, they can work together. The i5 (13th or 14th generation, basically the same part so I'd get whichever is cheapest) has the UHD 770 which can do video decoding very well.

Then add your new GPU which is much better at 3D calculations and will do the timeline and Fx.

If you buy the GPU first you could use it in the current system, assuming the power supply and case can handle it, and it may well be good enough for some time.