AMD 3200+, FX-51, or P4?

doctorwhom

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I want to be able to render my video to MPEG as fast as possible. I am ready to upgrade, but I am wondering if there is a point of diminished return for Premiere 6.5. Or is faster better?

What to get for video compiling, rendering, etc.? AMD Athlon 64 3200+ or the AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 or a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz? Is 800 front side bus too much? or is there such a thing as too much? How much RAM? What kind of RAM for an 800 MHz FSP board? (Any suggestion for motherboards (chipsets, etc.)? Thanks much.

Kevin
 

jdogg707

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I believe for rendering the P4 is faster than the Athlon's. I would say grab 1GB of PC3200 (Get Corsair, Kingston HyperX or Mushkin) if you aren't overclocking and either the Asus P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard (865PE Chipset), Asus P4C800-E Motherboard (875P Chipset), or the Abit IC7 Max3 (875P Chipset).
 

Markfw

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Originally posted by: jdogg707
I believe for rendering the P4 is faster than the Athlon's. I would say grab 1GB of PC3200 (Get Corsair, Kingston HyperX or Mushkin) if you aren't overclocking and either the Asus P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard (865PE Chipset), Asus P4C800-E Motherboard (875P Chipset), or the Abit IC7 Max3 (875P Chipset).

Before the Athlon64 that was true. Not necessarily so now, depends on the software. I vote for the FX, but a lot really depends on your budget, and you didn't mention that.

Edit:Found this bench, where the FX wins in Adobe 6:
PCworld
I will post any others I find.
 

alexruiz

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Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: jdogg707
I believe for rendering the P4 is faster than the Athlon's. I would say grab 1GB of PC3200 (Get Corsair, Kingston HyperX or Mushkin) if you aren't overclocking and either the Asus P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard (865PE Chipset), Asus P4C800-E Motherboard (875P Chipset), or the Abit IC7 Max3 (875P Chipset).

Before the Athlon64 that was true. Not necessarily so now, depends on the software. I vote for the FX, but a lot really depends on your budget, and you didn't mention that.

Edit:Found this bench, where the FX wins in Adobe 6:
PCworld
I will post any others I find.

Even before the Atlhon 64, it depended on the application..... and Premiere was always faster on an Athlon XP than on a P4. If premiere 6.5 is your application, get an Athlon 64 3200+