Is my machine powerful enough for Premiere

[kristianc50086286]

I need some urgent advice please.

I have just bought the Dell XPS all-in-one which I assumed would be good enough for 1080 and occasional 4K editing?

XPS 27 7760 All-in-One, Intel Core i7-7700 3.6GHz, 32GB RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, 27" 3840x2160 4K UHD Touchscreen, 8GB AMD Radeon RX 570

However my heart as sunk as it seems to freeze playback after adding only three or so layers of footage. I have even created proxies but this hasn't helped either. Is there something wrong with the spec as all reviews of these processors, amount of RAM etc seemed to indicate that it would be quite good for editing, where in fact it is unusable.

It is even underperforming the 2012 Macbook Pro (non retina 13") that I am replacing. I was going to go for a laptop but assumed this would have better cooling etc, and the screen is rather lovely - but pointless if it doesn't even do the basics in Premiere.

I have disabled the onboard graphics card so the GPU is definately using Open CL. Is the fact that it isn't Nvidia such a factor?

I think the refurb deal was good (£1500 all in), but do I need to pay more to get acceptable performance, or am I experiencing a Premiere bug (CC18 version).

I have a very short window to return this so any advice is grateful.

[kristianc50086286]

I think I may have found the problem.

My preview window was set to 'Fit', so when I changed it to both 25% and 50% the playback was perfect at 1/2 quality, which was what I expected it should be. I also set a few clips as 'scale to frame size' instead of 'set to frame size' as I assume this will help as well.

I'd still like some advice on what you think of the machine spec, as this does seem pretty consistent with a lot of Workstation laptops out there - or would I be better spending a bit more for a better Nvidia card in a tower?

[Bill Gehrke]

Any time you buy a big nme OEM computer it generally comes with al sorts of "garbage programs set to run on startup..  Tune that guy to get rid of any unecessary programs from running while you are editing.  A good place to start with is in Task Manager/Startup is to disable almost everyone of those items.  If they are needed later they will automatically start.  Do you only have that one SSD for storage and have you turned off indexing?

[kristianc50086286]

Thanks for the tip Bill.

I do have two SSD's, one internal and one external, so I think that is OK. I am new to PC (from Mac) so can you please offer advice on what you mean by indexing?

Thanks.

[John T Smith]

Search http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx to find an article to learn how to turn off the Windows indexing function

[Bill Gehrke]

If you would like to measure your CPU performance using Premiere Pro you can download, unzip, run and submit my Premiere Pro BenchMark (PPBM).  In the Output.csv results file the last number from the four tests will show us your CPU performance.  Then looking at the CPU web page on that site a well-tuned i7-7700 scored 485 seconds for that 4-core Turbo boost 4.2 GHz clock speed.

If you run the test we will also be able to comment on your GPU and storage system.