What can I upgrade to make rendering faster?

Brydo0

Brydo0

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Hey guys,

I'm currently looking into upgrading my desktop to improve render speeds for video editing. It would be great to get some feedback on what would help speed up the process.

I render on: Sony Vegas 11
Motherboard: P75-D3 Gigabyte
Ram: 8GB DDR3 HyperX (Have an extra 8GB unopened that I'm planning to install.)
Processor: Intel i5-3450 Ivy Bridge Quad Core Processor
Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX 560
Hard drive: 1TB + ( Unopened 2TB external USB 3.0 Seagate)

I bought the 8GB of RAM today for the purposes of when I am using my capture card and rendering. Not too expensive and it comes in handy at points. The external hard drive was bought as well for a place to put my older video files I want to keep on hand.

The two main things I'm looking at to add are either a better processor or a solid state drive. I've heard conflicting info on which would better impact my render times. What would you guys recommend?
 
Solid state is the single best thing you can do to improve performance ATM. Source: I'm a professional programmer.
 
Your current build should be more than capable of rendering, so yeah, a solid state drive would probably be the way to go ;)
 
I'm assuming you are using Windows 7 64bit? If not that extra ram won't be much use. Check to make sure you are rendering with CPU + CUDA in Vegas as well.
 
Under the render template you can change the encode mode to render using CUDA if available. With your GPU it should be.
 
William Phan said:
Under the render template you can change the encode mode to render using CUDA if available. With your GPU it should be.
Click to expand...

So I just tested rendering a video on the 3 different options, here were my estimated results..

Automatic (what I've been using): 18:11 minutes estimated
GPU: 18:06 minutes estimated
CPU: 14:10 minutes estimated

That alone is going to save me a lot of time, thanks for making me aware of the option!
 
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