Need some advise.
I just built a new machine based on the second generation AMD 64 (3400+) processor. The new system has the following specs:
AMD 64 (3400+)
3 Gig PC3200 DDR RAM
SATA drives (WD120 and WD200 Gigs as storage drives)
Hitachi 90 Gig (7200 RPM) for main drive)
Nvidia 5700 / 256 DDR MB RAM
ASUS Mobo (K8V SE De Luxe) / 800 FSB
My "old" PC is a P4 2.53
1 Gig PC2700 DDR Ram
120 Gig WD for main drive
(3) 80 Gig WD for storage
Additional 250 Gig WD External drive (for additional storage)
ATI Radeon 9800 / 256 MD DDR RAM
SOYO Dragon Lite Mobo / 533 FSB
MY problem:
Did a test on both PC's to see how much boost in rendering times I am getting with the upgrade. To my surprise my older PC was faster in both rendering times and viewing real time effects on the timeline.
The project:
Two 30 second AVI clip with a Red Bullet Artistic Effect applied on both clips (as track effect) and a simple "blinds" transition. The P4 machine was playing this between 6 to 7 fps while the new PC was just playing this between 4 to 6 FPS when played and viewed from the timeline.
Now before anybody says that the timeline view isn't acceptable in both instances, please bear in mind that these plug-in effects are really resource hogger.
Am I doing anything wrong? Are there any other tweaking in Vegas that I need to do? (BTW, RAM rendering preview is set to 860 for my P4 PC while the AMD one is set to 1920 which are both the maximum the system would allow in both instances)
As for the FSB, how do I check if am running my ASUS mobo at 800. The P4 would actually show you the FSB speed at boot up (533) while the ASUS board doesn't. DSE once mentioned on this forum that this should be the greatest consideration when it comes to rendering speed. (BTW, great work you did here in Phoenix Spot (for the VASST Vegas training)! Remember me? I was the guy who was seated behind everybody else (this is Art).
Anyway, I would really appreciate any response/help you can give me before I head back to Fry's to return these today!
I just built a new machine based on the second generation AMD 64 (3400+) processor. The new system has the following specs:
AMD 64 (3400+)
3 Gig PC3200 DDR RAM
SATA drives (WD120 and WD200 Gigs as storage drives)
Hitachi 90 Gig (7200 RPM) for main drive)
Nvidia 5700 / 256 DDR MB RAM
ASUS Mobo (K8V SE De Luxe) / 800 FSB
My "old" PC is a P4 2.53
1 Gig PC2700 DDR Ram
120 Gig WD for main drive
(3) 80 Gig WD for storage
Additional 250 Gig WD External drive (for additional storage)
ATI Radeon 9800 / 256 MD DDR RAM
SOYO Dragon Lite Mobo / 533 FSB
MY problem:
Did a test on both PC's to see how much boost in rendering times I am getting with the upgrade. To my surprise my older PC was faster in both rendering times and viewing real time effects on the timeline.
The project:
Two 30 second AVI clip with a Red Bullet Artistic Effect applied on both clips (as track effect) and a simple "blinds" transition. The P4 machine was playing this between 6 to 7 fps while the new PC was just playing this between 4 to 6 FPS when played and viewed from the timeline.
Now before anybody says that the timeline view isn't acceptable in both instances, please bear in mind that these plug-in effects are really resource hogger.
Am I doing anything wrong? Are there any other tweaking in Vegas that I need to do? (BTW, RAM rendering preview is set to 860 for my P4 PC while the AMD one is set to 1920 which are both the maximum the system would allow in both instances)
As for the FSB, how do I check if am running my ASUS mobo at 800. The P4 would actually show you the FSB speed at boot up (533) while the ASUS board doesn't. DSE once mentioned on this forum that this should be the greatest consideration when it comes to rendering speed. (BTW, great work you did here in Phoenix Spot (for the VASST Vegas training)! Remember me? I was the guy who was seated behind everybody else (this is Art).
Anyway, I would really appreciate any response/help you can give me before I head back to Fry's to return these today!