Hello,
I am using Vegas 10 at the moment and looking to upgrade to Pro Edit 15. On the whole I do cinematic style short subjects with standard transitions and grading. I occasionally do minor VFX. I have limped through with following set up.
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit
Battlefield War Rush Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz DDR3 Limited Edition Quad Core System
OcUK GeForce GTX 460 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
I’m aware that I need to upgrade and I would like to use (ideally up to LOG3, full frame) footage for the same purposes in Vegas 15. I am not a hyper technical person but a also not a Luddite. People seem to really get into the hair splitting of hardware and endless permutations of hardware set ups. I need solid and basic advice as to choosing (especially) GPU cards.
This is my proposed upgrade list
Asus P6T7 WS SuperComputer motherboard (a kind friend is donating this)
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6T7_WS_SuperComputer/
INTEL XEON X5675 3.06GHz 12MB SLBYL SIX CORE 6C CPU PROCESSOR CACHE LGA 1366
GEFORCE GTX 1050TI D5 MINI 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-EXPRESS GRAPHICS CARD
16-24gb ram, DDR3 1333MHz ECC 240-pin UDIMM (not sure if this is for a desktop or server only)
I can’t really afford a higher price tag than £180 (gbp) for a GPU...I really am fixed at approx £400 gbp for my upgrades (minus software).
I hear loads of things regarding using or not using Nvidia cards, quadro, Amd Radeon, CUDA cores, threads etc etc. I hear that some specs add nothing or little, that there are compatibility issues, that some specs are great for gaming and a waste of money for editing etc etc.
Are there some reasonably simple guidelines to follow for decent all round performance given my budget limitations?
Please help this ambitious idiot.