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portiz said:
so it there any cpu, processor or anything that u recomend me to buy to make rendering and editing faster?
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If buying now, I wouldnt recommend anything less then a Core i5 to be honest - i7 if you can stretch to it.
I was editing on a dual core 2.66GHz a year or so ago, which was still OK, but obviously new tech has overtaken that and prices for the newer infustructures have dropped.

Personally when buying a new system (I just bought a new MacBook and Mac Mini a couple of months back after the latest refresh), I dont bother looking at RAM or HDD whatsoever. My number 1 priority is always CPU - I get the very best CPU I can possibly get. RAM and HDD can always be easily, and relatively cheaply, upgraded yourself.
I feel manufacturers and resellers like to market systems with huge drives and RAM etc, and people fall into the trap thinking its a beast of a machine, but the fact of the matter is that you need to look at the harder upgrades (or impossible upgrades if its a laptop) first - so the CPU and the GPU - the two most important factors. All systems have easy access to upgrade RAM and HDD, and neither of these two upgrades will void any warranty either.
 
IftiBashir said:
Basically the general rule is the actual video processing/rendering is very CPU dependant. While doing the actual editing, good fast RAM will be very helpful along with HDD speed (although typically you should be using a scratch disk for render files to keep them away from the program files disk).

GPU has very little or nothing to do with video editing. BUT, certain software (like Adobe Premiere) uses DirectX for realtime effects, so video hardware is also needed for speed.
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I use Sony Movie Studio 12 with CUDA, so rendering is all pushed to my GPU. I'm wondering if you've experimented with that option at all? With a quad i7 it might not be a huge difference but on my laptop it cut my render times by as much as 75%.

Specs:
Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz
Nvidia GTX 260M
 
bwochinski said:
I use Sony Movie Studio 12 with CUDA, so rendering is all pushed to my GPU. I'm wondering if you've experimented with that option at all? With a quad i7 it might not be a huge difference but on my laptop it cut my render times by as much as 75%.

Specs:
Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz
Nvidia GTX 260M
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I was just replying to the thread - I dont have any issues.
As I said above, the exception is some software that pushes rendering to the GPU to offload it from the CPU, but most video editing software pushes rendering onto the CPU itself.
 
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