Thanks for all the info, I'll follow your advice regarding the 16GB of RAM.
What work are you doing on AE that wouldn't work in real time if you
didn't have the dual 580s with 3GB? Honestly I never used AE.
And what motherboard you have?
Rieni
At 24-12-2012 15:35, vlmagister wrote:
>I realize that I am late to the dance here, but for my video editing
>machine, I always build it myself and do minor updates as I need to and a
>major update (rebuild) about every two years. My old video machine becomes
>my new audio machine. My experience is a little different in that careful
>tracking has shown me that no matter what I do the software (Premiere Pro
>CS6 and AE) simply never demands more than about 14 Gigs of memory. I have
>32 , but I have never seen it used. I've come to believe that 16 is
>adequate for just about anything. Hard drive speed (SSD) and the GPU speed
>both matter a great deal. I use a RAID approach with SSDs and the best
>graphics card I can currently afford. Right now I have dual 580s with 3
>gigs of DDR5 each. The Mercury engine seems to love them. AE works in real
>time about 95 percent of the time. Without spending insane amounts of
>money, I think this is the best performance I can get. My machine prices
>out at about 2200 dollars and gives me 98 percent of the performance I
>could get with a 12,000 dollar machine.
>
>I'm happy with it.
>
>VL
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