What is better for Video Editing, P4 or AMD64

[kxm9976]

hello everyone,

allow me to thank you beforehand. any help is very appriciated.
One thing that I do have to say, please do not change this topic into a typical battleground between P4 and AMD fans. I really need expert advice as I have never used AMD64 for editing and I don't know how they perform. Some of the software that I use (Ulead, etc.) mention that they are specifically tailored for P4, however I get mixed thoughs in regards the two as far as performance goes with editing and the reliability in general. Some key things that I am looking is the decrease in rendering and encoding times and of course stability and speed at stock settings.

Few things I'd like to add. I DO NOT overclock and I don't usally play video games.

THank YOu

 

[James3shin]

read this

 

[kogase]

What that basically says is that AMD is faster, if you get a ridiculously high-end AMD CPU. And are encoding DIVX. Personally, I would go with whatever is the best for games. Any CPU you get today will be plenty fast for day-to-day apps, audio and video encoding, etc. What makes the most difference, and what becomes the most noticeable, is gaming performance. I can handle having to wait a few more seconds for my video to encode, but a big drop in FPS is not very desirable. Even if you think you won't be playing games, you should leave the option open to yourself. By the way, this would do better in the CPU forum. Not like it really matters, though.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

High end AMD or Intel will be fine. If you are hardcore, I would go mac though.

 

[kogase]

Any particular reason? Other than the fact that Macs are trendy for beret-wearing psuedo-intellectual video "artistes"?

 

[gsellis]

Decide whose NLE you plan to use and then check their site. If it were Pinnacle, I would go with Intel over AMD. Some vendors do not care. If you go with Final Cut Pro, you need a MAC

 

[kogase]

Yeah. Note that I was making a joke. Final Cut Pro is considered by many to be the best computer video editing suite available, and is Mac only. If you can afford it, even the cheapest dual G5 will do you very well. Of course, the full Final Cut Pro is a thousand bucks, but you can probably do fine with the Express version as well.

 

[Gnosis]

I'd take the AMD.... when the 64-bit operating systems come out intel is
going to be sooo behind...

Death to mac! (hate em, hate em, hate em... (yes you may hate pc
but I hate mac....))

 

[kxm9976]

Thank you everyone for you input.
After reading all your suggestions plus anand's reviews, I have decided to go with AMD64 3400+(newcastle) with 1GIG of Corsair value Select and Asus K8n-e Deluxe or DFI lanparty.

Thanks everyone.

 

[AristoV300]

Nice choice. Just wish you would reconsider on the RAM, go with OCZ Platinum PC-3200.

 

[BW86]

athlon s939 is on top.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: AristoV300
Nice choice. Just wish you would reconsider on the RAM, go with OCZ Platinum PC-3200.

even though there is no speed difference between "fast ram" and "value ram"? its a waste of money if you arnt overclocking.

 

[gsellis]

Good. Now, spend all the rest of your money on HD. You can never have too much drive space doing video editing.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: gsellis
Good. Now, spend all the rest of your money on HD. You can never have too much drive space doing video editing.

That's why you get a DVD burner.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: gsellis
Good. Now, spend all the rest of your money on HD. You can never have too much drive space doing video editing.

That's why you get a DVD burner.

Huh?

My 400GB volume has 240GB free when I am not working on a project. My current project has the space down to 75GB free and I will have to create about 20 DVDs yet (individual performances at 10minutes each (~ 1GB) and a compilation that will be 2 DVDs for a marching band project.)

 

[OinkBoink]

AMD64.

 

[VIAN]

I would get a P4 3.2 based on thos benches.