This is my first post. I have been using FCP on a mac for a few years now but its time for me to upgrade. I want to upgrade to 64bit, and also move away from FCP. I have decided that premier would be best for me, and am trying to figure out what is the best/most suitable pc I can get for my budget.
I am considering the following Hp Pavilion pc. I've always used mac but can't afford a new one, and feel a little out of my depth when it comes to pcs. Any advice/reccomendations would be appreciated. The specs for the Hp Pavilion are below.
I agree with Harm's assessment of that HP prebuilt. Way oversized boot/OS disk, only a single disk for absolutely everything, not enough available bays in the case for more than two additional disks. The GPU is potentially slower than the CPU, so MPE GPU acceleration would hardly be any improvement over software-only MPE in this particular system.
On the other hand, you would not want a hard drive that's smaller than about 300GB for that new PC, either: Most of the hard drives (as opposed to SSDs) that are smaller than 300GB are of very old designs that are significantly slower than their 1TB brandmates.
I also agree with Harm about ADK being a better choice than HP for custom PC builds suitable for video editing.
2T as a boot disk is a waste... at the least, reverse the drives so the 2T is your data drive and 1T is your boot drive
With a small bit of shifting around (except a 600w power supply may not be strong enough) 3 drives are better
My 3 hard drives for video editing are configured as... . 1 - 320Gig Boot for Win7 64bit Pro and ALL program installs (2) . 2 - 320Gig data for Win7 paging swap file and video project files When I create a project on #2 drive, the various work files follow, so my boot drive is not used for the media cache folders and files . 3 - 1Terabyte data for all video files... input & output files (1) . (1) for faster input/output with 4 drives - use drive 3 for all source files - use drive 4 for all output files . (2) only 60Gig used, for Win7 & CS5 MC & MS Office & other smaller programs . Search Microsoft to find out how to redirect your Windows paging swap file http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US
If your choice of a builder offers only such large (2TB+) hard drives as the primary boot drive and will only offer smaller-capacity disks as secondary (or storage) disks, then I would not continue to use this vendor any longer. Move on to someone else (as far as system builders go), in this case.
And I am not recomending such a huge disk as the OS disk because its size only encourages you to install even more bloatware, such as games, on it. And all that bloatware can (and will) slow down that new system severely. Take a good look at the HP system with an i7-3770 CPU in the PPBM5 results list: That system took well over 4,400 seconds to run the benchmark when that same CPU should have taken only about 270 seconds to run that exact same benchmark set in a properly tuned system. That system is severely bottlenecked in its disk I/O, MPEG-2 and H.264 encoding performance in large part due to the bloatware that cannot be easily uninstalled. In effect, that HP Pavillion i7 system is substanstially slower overall than even a six-year-old Core 2 Duo CPU-based system!
Your updated choice of a non-Ti GTX 560 is also marginal for the CPU that you selected: With the i7-3770 non-K the non-Ti 560 is at a point where the MPE GPU acceleration starts performing as slow as or slower than MPE software-only mode.
