Dual CPU Computer Configuration i7 vs Xenon

[Dauntless]

Is there any experience using dual CPU i7 vs dual CPU Xenon configuration for video editing. Dual i7 MB are now available.

 

[jbomb001]

Are u trying to make a computer purchase choice ? Personally I have an I 7 4710mq. And edit with power director. I prefer to use hardware acceleration via my gpu. Sorry if this don't help you in any way as I may be misunderstanding your question.. fwiw I feel I get better quality from using the gpu.

Sent from my galaxy S5 Active.

 

[Dauntless]

Wow, that took some time: I was mistaken at the time and thought I could build a dual CPU i7 system, however, multi cpu motherboards seem only to be available for xenon CPUs. I also use PowerDirector and GPU doesn't add much, have used in 6 core AMD and i7 IvyBridge 4 core with hyperthreading so it is 8 cores and the build below. The number of cores and CPU speed is so much more that the GPU doesn't hardly make a difference. The video editing build below powers through rendering, the only issue I have had is if I go out to color director and add correction, any machine I have tried bogs down. Don't know what's with that.

Also, 32GB of RAM didn't make much difference either vs 8 or 16

Elite Performance Custom 3D Modeling & AutoCAD System Haswell Version (CPUi750HWCADWSEP) Customizations:

Case: H2 Classic Silent Midtower Chassis CS-NT-H2-B Black

Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 1500W Power Supply RSF00-SPM2D3-US

Socket 1150 Haswell: ASUS Desktop Board Haswell SABERTOOTH Z87 LGA1150 Intel Z87 Express Chipset - Socket H3 LGA-1150 (New)

Intel LGA 1150 CPU ( Intel 4th Gen Haswell): 4th Gen Intel Core i7 i7-4770K 3.50 GHz Processor - Socket H3 LGA-1150 CPU Stock Cooler Included

Upgrade From Stock Intel Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

DDR3 Memory Options: Crucial 32GB kit Ballistix DDR3 1600Mhz 4 x 8 GB


PCI Express Video Card: PNY Quadro K4000 Graphic Card - 3 GB GDDR5 SDRAM - PCI Express 2.0 x16 - Full-height


SATA Hard Disk: Crucial M500 480 GB 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive


Second Hard Drive: WD Black WD1003FZEX 1 TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive


Optical Drives: LG GH24NSB0 24x DVDRW Super Multi Drive


Optical Drives: LG WH16NS40 Internal Blu-ray Writer - Black - Bulk - Internal


OS: WINDOWS 7 PRO 64 Bit OEM 1PK License and Media - OEM - 1 PC - English Supports Up To 192GB RAM

 

[Brandon]

I'm assuming you have your video stored on the 1TB drive, with your OS + Apps on the SSD?

If so, you're bottlenecked at the drives. For anything processor intensive, once you move past utilizing 4 cores or so, you really need a RAID array to feed them.

 

[jbomb001]

Wow I didn't even notice the date on your post. And that is a nice system but as Brandon said if ur not running in a raid 0 setup then you will likely have a bottleneck at the drives. As far as color correction I would presume that it is also a data feed rate issue or simply the fact that for every second of video your actually correcting 30 or 60 pictures and that's a lot of prosser usage.

Sent from my galaxy S5 Active.