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- Joined: Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:27 am
- Real Name: Ben Jones
I've had a good experience with my Intensity Pro card (bought used) in an Asrock 970 Extreme4 mobo with an AMD FX-8350 proc and a couple of 8GB sticks of DDR3-1866, and originally was using an Nvidia Geforce GTX-460. Debated upping the RAM with a couple more sticks until I learned it would no longer run in dual channel mode with 4 sticks. Not sure how important that is.
It runs smoothly with no issues. Quite impressive to me that I could view full speed 1440 by 1080 on my preview monitor with 2048 by 1536 scanned film in the dpx format source files with no stuttering. And this was with color correction. Granted, I have the video files on a pair of SSDs in a RAID, but still, not bad for a fairly inexpensive editing rig.
I chose the Asrock (I think it is built by Asus) as it had tons of ports, particularly firewire and eSata in back. I've got the thing loaded with drives, main OS, SSD RAID, standalone SSD, and a pair of WD Green 1TB drives in RAID. Had to use an additional SATA card for the WD RAID.
Upgraded the vid card to a GTX-660, for the improved GPU rendering assist in another editing program. The card was in a computer I was given.
If I had it to do over, I would have bought the X99 series board, as I think that one uses DDR4. But this one does well, I really hammer it sometimes. The 600 watt gold power supply I upgraded to (used) has all but eliminated any crash issues. And it uses the electricity more efficiently. I run a watt meter on my box, it's interesting to see the wattage jump from a web surfing 85 watts up to over 400 when rendering.
Good luck, and let us know what you get, and how it performs.