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Originally Posted by mikesouth
in that case the gpu is THE most important factor for rendering go to the site for the editing software you use and see what Graphics cards they recommend TY Paulie heard from DB Cooper lately? been a while here....
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No I haven't heard from him, he disappeared, but no, cpu all the way. Cuda adds about 20%, they say, to overall rendering if your mobo and gpx card have the proper firmware and all the planets have aligned. I have not gotten any where near that performance and I have a couple i7's all using Adobe Premiere Pro on Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
Trust me. An i7 cpu with a mediocre gpx card will stomp the shit out of an i5 with a high end gpx card.
My edit station has 2 gtx 560's so I can output to 3 monitors and an extra reference monitor. Cuda can only be used from one gpx card with my mobo. Maybe some are different.
With an i7, 16 gigs of ram and 2 gtx 560's I cut through hi def like nothing. Rendering a 90 minute timeline doesn't give me time to take a leak.
Some of the best encoders like Handbrake (pretty ffmpeg) do the job faster than real-time at the highest quality encode using 2 pass. They don't utilize cuda at all, just cpu.
Go with an i7 and find the sweet spot price wise for an Nvidia gpx card, at least 8 gigs, preferably 16 gig system ram for editing and make sure you are running 64 bit OS. 32 bit only recognizes 4 gig ram no matter how many you put in there. btw Win 7 home basic only recognizes 6 or 8 gig max, W7 premium 16 max, W7 pro and ultimate are so much who gives a shit.