PC spec suggestions needed!

Tommygun54 wrote on 10/7/2018, 4:08 PM

I’m running Vegas Pro 16 and AE on this PC setup...

Windows 7 home premium 64 bit

GA-Z77-D3H Mother board

Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Processor

5gb 1050ti graphics card

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

...it’s a decent setup but does slow in terms of rendering and real time effects/transitions. The only thing I haven’t addressed to any degree is the CPU.

Can anyone recommend a “drop in” CPU upgrade given the motherboard/graphics card I have already? I’m not looking for miracles...just noticeably better. My budget isn’t spectacular either...I’m hoping a second hand eBay purchase could help. 

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j-v wrote on 10/7/2018, 4:31 PM

All depends on the files you are using.
If you use AVC or HEVC the processor cannot manage this so good and is at least a i7 what you need.

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Tommygun54 wrote on 10/7/2018, 4:50 PM

I am using MP4 AVC files. A friend suggested an i7 6700k cpu...I guess...?

Former user wrote on 10/7/2018, 5:00 PM

I7 6700 is no good for 60fps 4K video. Vegas timeline playback dies completely, it's unusable. 4K 24/25/30fps works fine with my gtx1070. I would guess your 1050ti would also be fine.

Chief24 wrote on 10/7/2018, 5:17 PM

Like bob-h said, not good for 60fps @ 4K. Plus, guess your friend would be supplying the motherboard and memory to go with that i7-6700k? Especially since it would not "drop-in" to your GA-Z77-D3H motherboard, and is quite incompatible with the memory as well. The best you could hope for "drop-in" wise, would be the i7-2700k, which would just give you basically an extra 100MHz speed on the clock, and "hyper-threading" over what you currently have. Plus, you also have to realize that the "drive sub-system" (i.e. hard drive, lack of newer support for nvme drives) would also be a possible detriment to your required goals. Even if your board supported "Ivy Bridge" processors, which you would have to do the leg-work to find out, would not gain you anything really, except bringing "supported PCI-E version 3", again, if the board supported it as well. Good Luck!

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Tommygun54 wrote on 10/7/2018, 5:23 PM

Would the i7 2700 offer anything more in terms of cores/threads...any real advantage over what I have?

karma17 wrote on 10/12/2018, 3:42 AM

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-2700K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-2500K/1985vs619

 

Probably not.

wjauch wrote on 10/12/2018, 5:55 PM

I am not so sure that there is no real advantage. I am not an expect but believe Vegas makes a lot of use of CPU.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-2500K+%40+3.30GHz&id=804

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2700K+%40+3.50GHz&id=881

A Passmark jump from 6476 to 8718 seems like a nice increase. My suggestion would be to check performance in Windows task manager while using Vegas and if it shows high CPU utilization in your current setup, try an eBay used 2700k

Tommygun54 wrote on 10/12/2018, 6:29 PM

I’ll look into that...Thanks!