Re: Will Video Editing on a PC ever truly work?

Thanks Leo,

ADK Designs of Kentucky built me a Video/audio only machine with CS3, Quad Core, 4 gigs mem, Win XP Pro, and it's been the most stable system I've ever had. I'm running CS3.

It wasn't a matte of saving money either, as this system (after bargaining) still cost me $2800. I purchased the CS3 suite separately on my own.

I also have a Quad core laptop running CS3, but that has other "day to day" programs on it, so it's just a backup to work in a pinch.
I've even built another daily use desktop that's also Quad core and loaded with programs and internet access and I've also gotten CS3 to work on it, but haven't really stressed it out to see about crashing.

It's just the occassional crashes and memory warnings that are annoying, still, I'm able to work as long as I'm savings projects every few minutes and backing up well.

Sounds like going to Vista, going to 8 gigs of RAM, and possibly updating my 512 meg video card to 1 gig may all help, as well as the usual things like keeping the drive defragged and OS on one drive, files on another, and rendering to yet another.

Oh, going to CS4 may help too, huh?

Thanks again.
Jerry

Jerry
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