Premiere Pro CS5 build

Firstly: Intel has released a new CPU (was released 2011/01/03), they are significantly faster than the current generation. So even if you won't have the cash to buy them it will most likely drive down current prices so it would be best to wait IMHO.

Secondly: How did you get to 6GB DDR3? Hopefully not 3x2gb?

Thirdly: Yes Adobe Photoshop *can* benefit from video card acceleration but only Photoshop IIRC. I'd rather stock up on CPU power and memory.

Lastly: The PSU you picked is terrible, don't buy that.

So wait about a month, then come back! It really isn't the best time to buy right not because anything you buy will be completely out of date the moment you walk out of the store.
 
I would take GNomes advice or maybe look at the 6 core AMD rigs. More cores will help with video editing and 8GB ram would probably be better and a very fast HDD.

GFX I don't think is as important with video editing as it is with 3D modelling so you could probably get away with a 1GB 56XX card
 
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The thing about video editing, especially HD, is the amount of processing power you will need. The i3 will not cut it. You should look at something like the i7 quad core (or as stated, the newly released Intel CPU's). With this, LOTS of Memory. 2-4GB is good for SD quality, but I am suffering on my 4GB with HD. So my guess is about 8GB. Also note that Adobe Premiere CS5 can take advantage of NVIDIA GPU's power. So look at getting a compatible graphics card (www.adobe.com)
 
I always wonder to myself why people ask questions when they seem so clued up?

You seem like you know exactly what is going. So why are you asking?
 
carderne said:
I'm building a mid-range PC for my brother for him to do some HD video editing with Premiere Pro CS5.
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When it comes to video editing I would not call those specs mid-range. You want a pc to perform a certain function yet you pick components that aren't really up to the job.

Look at the prices on the new Sandy Bridge stuff as well (prohecy shop has some prices up) as the prices of the new kit seem to be cheaper than the old stuff.
 
Ok, that PSU is rubbish. The 12v rail is sketchy at best and is more suited to lower power Celeron stuff so I would go with the 1 version up if you must stick with Gigabyte. Buying the utmost bottom of the range PSU leaves no space for upgarding not even adding of many extra HDD's.

Get the 470 Watt Odin, it's about R120 more but is streets ahead on performance.
 
carderne said:
I know this forum gets inundated with build requests, but luckily for you I have some more specific requests.

I'm building a mid-range PC for my brother for him to do some HD video editing with Premiere Pro CS5.

We want to make it as cheap as possible, so I've come up with the following basic outline:

Intel Tom Cove mobo
Intel i3 550
6GB DDR3 1333
and a Gigabye case (X7) and PSU (Odin 370W)

I budgeted this to just under R3200 from Sybaritic. Suggestions as to trimming the price would be very helpful. I'm not really up to date with PC stuff any more, so perhaps there's a similar mobo or CPU or whatever that will achieve a similar purpose.

The other, more important, thing is the graphics. I'm not entirely sure whether a graphics card will benefit Premiere Pro CS5 use. On the Adobe website, the lowest card it says it 'supports' is the nVidia 470, but I think that might be just for some add-on thing. Does anyone know whether a cheap (say R700 range) graphics card will help Premiere Pro? I understand the built in graphics in the new Intel CPUs is quite a lot better anyway?
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A better graphics card will help in Premiere Pro CS5 but there is a "hack" to it. Officially Premiere only supports the Quadro Cards, GTX 470 and GTX 285 I believe. It's fairly simple to get almost any CUDA enabled video card to accelerate Premiere Pro CS5. It's obviously limited to certain operations within Premiere but it should give a nice boost.

Here is the link for the little "hack"
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/adobe-cs5-cuda-64-bit,2770-3.html

Edit - PS. This does not work with Photoshop :(
 
carderne said:
Anyone have an idea which graphics cards will work with the Premiere hack?
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According to write-ups I've read: Any NVIDIA card, as long as it has CUDA cores and 1GB or more of RAM - DDR3 okay.. but DDR5 recommended. DDR2 a NO NO!! - It can't cope with the Mercury playback engine.
More CUDA cores = need for bigger PSU.

check out this writeup - he lists a few models & recommendations in tip no. 7.

http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm
 
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