General Sony Vegas Machine Help

[DaneLewis]

Hey guys,

I'm in the planning stages of building a buddy of mine a machine for rendering using Sony Vegas Pro. I can't find anywhere that will tell me what the best specs for that type of machine. When it says that you can use CPU or CUDA, does that mean you can get a cheap CPU and a 9xx that the performance will be similar to a big boy CPU. Just very confused.

Thank you guys so much!

[nikolaizombie1]

You should Run An Intel I7 With A GTX 970 Or 980 If He can

[nikolaizombie1]

what is his budget?

[jurian123]

Just get a TITAN and be done with it! 

 

No JK, get a GTX 980 and you will be fine. No problem! 

[nikolaizombie1]

This is What I Would Use For Vegas Rendering

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LTGm23

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LTGm23/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($332.98 @ OutletPC) 

Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z87 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($124.99 @ NCIX US) 

Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($162.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($149.98 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Video Card  ($555.91 @ Newegg) 

Case: Corsair 750D ATX Full Tower Case  ($119.99 @ Micro Center) 

Power Supply: Corsair Professional 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($132.99 @ Best Buy) 

Total: $1579.83

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-03 08:48 EDT-0400

[DaneLewis]

Part of the issue is that his budget isn't that good. Around $500 but still upgradable. He doesn't make it easy

[nikolaizombie1]

ok ill make it work but does he have a form factor in mind?

[DaneLewis]

No form factor

[nikolaizombie1]

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Fb7DnQ

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Fb7DnQ/by_merchant/

 

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  ($98.98 @ Amazon) 

Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($67.99 @ Amazon) 

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($159.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.98 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 1GB Video Card  ($109.99 @ NCIX US) 

Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.99 @ Micro Center) 

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($29.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $561.91

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-03 09:04 EDT-0400

[nikolaizombie1]

Here's The Best I can Do For The Price

While Still Having 16GB Of RAM

[DaneLewis]

That's a lot better! I can probably even get some those parts for cheaper too (Best Buy employee advantages). Thank you so much man!

[nikolaizombie1]

Your Welcome 

Also If He can I Would Suggest Getting 256 GB SSD To Run Sony Vegas Better