Vegas 8 Pro take advantage of QUAD processors?

Matt L wrote on 8/4/2008, 8:14 PM
Hi All,

I just order my first Quad Q6600 Processor desktop/server for around $400.00, and was wondering if Vegas 8 Pro will take advantage of a QUAD processor? Is there any special configuring I will need to do?

The following is the server/desktop I just purchased
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11302251

Thanks.

Comments

busterkeaton wrote on 8/4/2008, 8:17 PM
lots of folks here have quads. Search the board for 6600
Terry Esslinger wrote on 8/4/2008, 10:02 PM
Appears to be missing fire wire ports!!
DJPadre wrote on 8/4/2008, 11:12 PM
for sure...
a decent board will even allow u to overclock.. not that you need it.. but u can...

I run a quad on a lowly hybrid AGP/PCIe board and im hittin under 1.19 in the render test...

check the render test thread.. for system spec and render results

each one will be different but youll get an idea
Matt L wrote on 8/5/2008, 5:57 AM
<< Appears to be missing fire wire ports!! >>

I plan on getting the following the card.

http://www.siig.com/ViewProduct.aspx?pn=NN-830012-S2

Matt
John_Cline wrote on 8/5/2008, 6:17 AM
SIIG makes excellent IEEE-1394 cards. I've used them exclusively for years and they simply work.
ChipGallo wrote on 8/5/2008, 8:46 AM
Matt -- I have the Q6600 on an Intel "boxer" motherboard. Running Vegas 8b, the 4 CPU usage goes up fairly evenly on certain operations. I haven't done a bench mark other than to compare rendering of a 60 minute MPEG 2 file (had taken up to 12 hours on old Athlon system) to a few hours on the 4-cpu system. Recently I got adventurous and did some color corrections that I never would have done due to render times.

Of course, I had to reinstall Windows XP Pro because my HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) was set for a single CPU and I only got the one CPU in Windows Task Manager Performance monitoring. After the in place reinstall, I had all four CPUs showing up ... my bad, i guess for not catching this initially.

I also put 4GB of RAM on the motherboard, which can hold up to 8 whenever I put a 64 bit OS on there. Be sure to have enough cooling in the case too.