Will a Dell Precision T5500 handle 4K ?

[Bob Dix Photographer]

Will a Dell Precision T5500 Intel XEON Quad Core 2.28GHZ with Raid & 12GB Ram and Raid O handle 4K ?  H.264 mov

Incl  nVidia Quadro FX3800

and a Dell Precision M6600 2.40 Ghz Quad Core, 16 GB Ram with Raid O and nVidia Quadro  2000M   2GB    GDDRS  ?   H.264 mov and AVCHD 4K

Bob Dix Photographer

Freelance Imaging & Video

AUSTRALIA

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[RjL190365]

The simple answer is NO. Both of your systems are now outdated and/or obsolete. In fact, the ENTIRE Quadro FX series of GPUs are now too old to be supported at all in the MPE GPU acceleration in CC 2015.3 or later; thus, you would be permanently locked to the MPE software-only mode with that GPU in newer versions of Premiere Pro CC (2015.2 was the last version that supported the legacy Tesla-architecture GPUs for MPE GPU acceleration). What's more, that first-generation Nehalem quad-core CPU is clocked way too low to do much if anything (as far as video editing is concerned); in fact, that quad-core needs to be clocked at 4.0 GHz or higher just to comfortably handle even 1080p.

With all that said, you could still do 4K editing. Just be prepared to wait an excruciatingly long time (say, 10 hours or more for each hour of video content) for the rendering to be completed.

[Bob Dix Photographer]

"or higher just to comfortably handle even 1080p."

Well they have been handling at speed 1080p for some 7 years without fail ,but, I can see your advice is sound and 4K is out of the question, I'll stick with 1920 x 1080 untill broadcast requirements change.in Australia.