Helping my uncle upgrade to a new PC. He will be using Sony Vegas and authoring Blurays.
Does Sony Vegas mostly use the CPU, or are there huge improvements from using CUDA or anything? If not, then i will just have him get a GTX 950, or hell, maybe even a 750, just to run the monitor.
Watch this
It appears that Sony Vegas doesn't take massive advantage of your graphics card's compute performance. Go for a better CPU over better GPU.
Thanks. I had seen that video, i just wanted to inquire on here if anyone else saw different results. But thank you.
I think i am going to have him get the 5820k and just get a GTX 750/750Ti/950 for graphics.
Should suffice.
Is he playing any games at all? because you could just get like a 20 dollar GPU for the video output and spend the money saved on a 280 AIO
No video games what so ever. And he won't be overclocking. So, i mean, i put a Noctua single tower 140 cooler in his build, but i could honestly just put a 212 evo, and save $40. I may end up doing that. What i find crazy is that he can get the 5820k for $299... that is cheaper than a 4790k. He has a microcenter nearby.
At the moment, i am leaning towards a 500W-600W EVGA PSU and a GTX 750 (no external power needed, and only $109) to accompany the 5820k.
The watercooler would be for quite operation mostly, but ya, like a 5450 is like 20 bucks usually, they're there almost just to get video output. Also it uses like 25W
Well, i think i would much rather have him get a newer GPU. It may just be for video, but who knows if he may one day want to play a game or two, and his budget isn't so tight. Plus, multi-monitor or 4K support may be needed.
You should still invest in a decent GPU, your preview framerates and render times will improve.
I just tried this btw. Rendering a 7:31 mp4, Sony XAVC S format with the XAVC S HD 1080 Long-GOP 59.94p preset. Tons of filters in this video.
Render times:
i7-4790K stock - 20:46
R9 290X stock - 11:28
Looks like a big enough difference to invest in a GPU to me.
rendering is interesting.
It's highly dependant on what exactly you do to the video.
If you're just transcoding it from format to format and there are a few splices in there your GPU is probably not going to help at all.
However if you're applying tones of filters Effects and other features that have been made to be used on a discrete gpu then yes you will see a difference
@SLOWION Although, he will be getting a 5820k, not a 4790k. 6core and 12 threads, as oppossed to 4core and 8 threads. Not sure the gap would be that drastic. Could be, though.
Well the thing is, he has a budget of $1,000-$1,200. I think i have squeezed as much out of that price as i can. I could get a cheaper PSU, i suppose, and drop him down to a 120GB SSD. Even a cheaper case and a GTZ 750 with 1GB of vRAM. If i did that, i could probably shave off $100
With 10 mins of overclocking a 5820k can do 4ghz easily with pretty much any motherboard and a 212 evo.
You will most likely see a big difference between 6 vs 4 cores when editing, I know I have.
The next biggest improvement I can recommend is having a good disk setup.. OS/application, project files, media, caches.. personally I split the load across 3 SSD's, it makes such a difference.
@thelonewanderer Well he is out of state, and in no way will he want to overclock. If i was there, i would help him.
@PoshGeordie Yeah, His current CPU is an Intel Q8200 @2.33Ghz. That sucker is from 2008. No doubt this new rig will make his video editing MUCH smoother/faster.
could you elaborate a little more, I'm interested in this sort of setup