When EVGA opened their office this morning it took only 6 minutes for them to sell out, unfortunately I did not make the cutoff there or Newegg which sold all their stock yesterday before it was even official ... View more

I got my coupon in the email at 9.:03 PM EST and guess what they are completely sold out. ... View more

Right now (today) the best performance and a great deal is the Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 at $130 for this 2 TB drive (or $65/TB)  Here are the fastest 7200 rpm transfer rates I have seen for HD Tune Wrire and Read rates for a two disk drive RAID 0 setup. ... View more

March and April will most likely be producing some bargains on the GTX500 series as nVidia finally officially announces the GTX 600 series. ... View more

It is a shame that you cannot convince your IT department to get a system designed for video editing, like ADK does.  You only have 8 GB per processor which is awful weak.  You would be much better off with a single, faster, newer, overclockable processor tuned for NLE work.  You are buying CPU's (LGA 1366) that are now several generations old. ... View more

Here are some recent CS5.5.2 results the I have run with the PPBM5 Benchmark Jack, Your GTX 550 is not really helping you much. ... View more

B. S. The GTX 560 works fine!  All you have to do is properly add it the "cuda_supported_cards.txt" file.  Search for nVidia hack ... View more

How about $310 after rebate? ... View more

JockLaw wrote: Thanks. Another problem I've just come across is that on browsing the various suppliers sites,there are many variations of the GTX 560 ti available. 1)Is there a particular one that's more suitable for video editing? 2)I'm wondering how to objectively rate video cards generally,given that they have different Gb rating,number of cores,Mhz etc. I realise that it has to be GDDR 5;and at least a 1Gb card;and that more cores is probably better,but the choice seems confusing,as sometimes for example the Gb is higher,but it has less cores,and the same goes for the Mhz. Is there any information that could help me quickly decide,and that refers to real world performance gains to be expected by moving up to,say,a 570 or 580 card,given that I'm definately using the 2600K processor? Thanks again. Here are the results of my testing ... View more

JockLaw. Well they have recently really confused the issue the 560 card is the only one that I know of that is offered with two different amounts of cores (384 and 448) this is not an immense improvement   Do not pay extra for clock speed as it does no good.  Memory is generally not a factor unless you are using extremely large image sizes. ... View more

Klaus, Here is what I would get right now for $324 USD (if I could afford the rest of your proposed system), then you could always upgrade if we really find some advantage. ... View more

Dr Jared wrote:   You have given the impression above that the Quadro 4000 is an inferior card for editing with CS5.5 - however it is currently the top card recommended by Gary @ Videoguys.  Could that be because Video Guys happens to only sell Quadro cards, one of their few computer components? ... View more

I do not know if I can stand this boring peace on all fronts. Great job Harm! I wonder how long this disk drive market is going to take to get back to normality, or is this the price we are going to have to pay for so few venders left actually making disk drives. ... View more

What does GTX have that Quadro does not have? What does Quadro have that GTX does not have? I would like for you to give me a chart on the difference between them like an outline comparsion or column comparsion. Also, what is the maximun of RAM memory for video editing? Thank you GTX has performance advantage for general video editing over Quadro Quadro has 10 bit output, but unless you have a monitor that properly supports 10-bit it will do you no good. I have never tested a Quadro, but here are my comparison charts of GPU's and a chart showing a few boards I have tested with CS5.5. There is no maximum RAM, there is a minimum for MPE to work it is (I believe)  896 MB or we typically round it off to 1 GB ... View more

Well I did it sooner than expected.  Before the end of the week I will be able to add the scores of the brand new "special edition" EVGA GTX 560 Ti 448 core GPU board to the table above. ... View more

Tuesday the upgraded GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores goes on sale, that puts it in almost the 570 class.  Since the good nVidia Kepler's now look like it they could be almost a year away I may see if I can find one at a reasonable price in the next month or two. ... View more

After all the speculation I thought this might be appropriate to present a few facts.  Here are my results on PPBM5.5 testing on my "library" of six CUDA cards that work with Premiere CS5.5. ... View more

What do you have now?  Rarely is the video card the problem.  I personally am going to wait for the next generation GTX 6xx series to be introduced within the next 1-3 months before I spend any more money on GPU's ... View more

I downloaded last night without any problems and ran several PPBM5 benchmark runs and I am pleased to say that all the fixes did not affect the performance as far as PPBM5 goes. ... View more

Thanks Jim, I thought that should be the case. ... View more

I have a related but slightly different question.  I will be videoing my grandson's high school football games with my Sony NX5U.  Is there any advantage using 720p over 1080i for action events.  Last year I did not experiment and try 720p,  I used 1080i and produced primarily DVD's and an occasional BD-R ... View more

What you want for your four drives is RAID 10, theorticlly gives you the speed of two drives in RAID 0 with two drives mirroring those two.  After you set it up you might want to test it to check the performance as I do not know what the Adaptec is capable of doing.  Of course you could ao try it with your onboard Intel controller. ... View more

Get rid of the partitioning, Drive are cheap You have the OS, applications and the project on the same disk drive = very bad setup. ... View more

JEShort01 wrote:: 1) What connector / method are you using to convert one of your internal SFF-8087 connectors to work with the TR8X's SFF-8088 cables? Thanks in advance, Jim Jim is this what you are looking for? If not these people at PCPitStop can problably come up with it   And the ARC-1880ix-12 has an external SFF-8088 connector ... View more

Clearly you get more processing power with a PC for less money at this time. ... View more

thared33 wrote: I'm having a little trouble understanding the results chart that Bill posted. I'm in the market for a card that will help with Adobe CS5.5 and I'm not sure which card to get. On the MPEG-2, H.264, and Render Timeine charts - I'm guessing the lower the number, the better? Is all of that rendering time? It's funny because if so the GTX 550ti is competing with the 570 and 580, but the price is less than half of those cards. Which one of these cards would get me the best speed/performance ratio, the GTX 500ti? I'm still curious as to why that one looks like it performs so well considering it has half the cores... Having half the cores seems like it would be half the performance but this chart is showing otherwise. Why is that? I am not sure where you would find a GTX 500 Ti Yes the lower the number shows the better performance (faster encoding time). Are you really asking which card will give you the best speed/cost ratio?  That is subjective to your budget. From my testing with a limited number of boards (unfortunately neither of these boards) I would guess that the GTX 560 Ti (384 cores)@ ~$230 or the GTX 560 (336 cores) @ ~$200 would be my performance/buck choice. ... View more

I think your question was answered above "Ours fly editing DV and do OK with HDV but full HD is just beyond reach for more than a couple of streams or any kind of keying.   and also eSATA drives attached" ... View more

Now I can clearly see why you need faster rendering and encoding.  Also with that laptop you probably only have the one disk drive (most likely 5400 rpm), where Adobe's minimum system requirements for CS5 are for a second full speed 7200 rpm drive.  If you take a look at our PPBM5 (Premiere Pro BenchMark) results you will see way down the list with a total score of 1409 a test of a very similar system to yours.  Do you by any chance have access to a faster desktop to use for your encoding runs? ... View more

Welcome aboard the forum.  Now it will be necessary to know what your hardware system is like.  This can make a big difference.  Do you have a nVidia GPU and is MPE enabled?  What CPU, how much memory?  How many disk drives? Also when you say "render" are you referring to Rendering the Timeline or are you referring to encoding and then what output format? ... View more