Video Editor - what processor?

[voodoo1694]

I'm looking for a processor for straight up video editing. My budget is around $400 (plus or minus 20/30) I very very rarely play games. Maybe a few a year for shits and giggles. I've looked at countless benchmarks and it seems like Intel has a slight edge with encoding. What do you guys think i should get? Athlon or Intel?

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

forum searches are your friend.

pay special attention to alexruiz's posts.

 

[Vette73]

Is $400 the budget for the CPU alone or CPU + board?


Intel use to lead the pack over the A-XP. BUT with the athlon64, it soemtimes goes to intel and soemtimes goes to AMD, kinda a draw now. You will need to look up whjat program you use and see what IT favors and then will it be released in 64bit for anytime soon?


If the $400 is for CPU alone, go with 2 242 Opterons. That should be right at $400 for 2 oem ones. Then get a MSI K8T Master2-FAR board. It coems with heatsinks and is a standard ATX size board that will house the dual opterons. This will be cheap, fast, and have a nice upgrade path.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

is it really worth getting a dual processor board of that quality though, considering the 2nd CPU will have to address memory through the primary CPU? its kinda like 1.5 CPUs

 

[voodoo1694]

just to clarify, i have 400+ for the processor alone

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
is it really worth getting a dual processor board of that quality though, considering the 2nd CPU will have to address memory through the primary CPU? its kinda like 1.5 CPUs

On a Intel system yea I would kinda agree, BUT since AMD uses mem. controllers on each CPU and they are routhed through a HT link, it does not hurt them anywhere near as bad.

So since he just said $400 is for the CPU/'s I would then get the 2 242 opterons.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

i'm gonna have to read up on the low end opteron setups, i asumed it was the same issues as MPs. apparently i'm wrong

edit: wow, i think we have a winner

 

[lobadobadingdong]

If I had $400 budget for a processor for video editing, I'd be using an HT Xeon....and I'm and AMD fanboy :Q

edit: the reason is simple for raw video editing high fsb, and multiple threads a outstanding, the HT enabled xeons really do kick @ss on video editing compared to an opteron system. (the opteron isn't slow by any means but you'll save 20-30 min for every 2hours of rendering using the xeon)

 

[voodoochili]

P4 2.8 or higher with a ton of memory =)

 

[PetNorth]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
If I had $400 budget for a processor for video editing, I'd be using an HT Xeon....and I'm and AMD fanboy :Q

edit: the reason is simple for raw video editing high fsb, and multiple threads a outstanding, the HT enabled xeons really do kick @ss on video editing compared to an opteron system. (the opteron isn't slow by any means but you'll save 20-30 min for every 2hours of rendering using the xeon)

I wouldn't say it. At least there are many variants in encoding tasks. Depending what type of video encoding you do, some win Opteron, some win Xeon. Look at these Hexus video encoding benchs Opteron Vs. Xeon Nocona:

MainConcept

Auto Gordian Knot

Canopus ProCoder


Regards.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

like i said guys, read the thread i posted, this has all be covered many times before.