Athlon 64s and Avid, Adobe Aftereffects & premiere.

[Flamekebab]

I am pretty sure about this, but I thought I'd get a reply from some experts first, just to justify my stance.

I intend to build a system for a company which makes falconry videos.

Current spec:

AMD Athlon 64bit 3400+ 754pin/1Mb L2cache Retail Boxed with 3 Year Warranty CPU
£300
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=58432

MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R SKT 754 K8T800 8x AGP GB LAN 1394,S-ATA RAID 6CH Sound - £90
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=52178

1.5GB DDR Kingston PC3200 RAM CL2 - £185 for 1GB + £85 for 512mb<basically 3 x 512mb sticks>
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=50358

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=52788

Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB 8mb Cache 7200rpm Serial ATA - OEM - £150
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=50033

DVD Burner – Dual R/RW Plextor 8x DVD DUAL R/RW IDE BLACK BURNER - Retail Box -£110
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=52651

Nvidia GeForce FX 5950 256mb DDR, VIVO - £290
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=59666


Chieftec BX-01Extreme Black Atx Case With No PSU - £35
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=55641

PSU – Qtec 550W - £25
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=34825

Chic Office Keyboard PS/2 Black - £4.63
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=49648

Chic 1330 Optical Mouse £3.88
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=42130

Total: £1388.51 including VAT

We already have monitors for it.

Anyway, our other technician seems to think that Athlon 64s haven't been tested with Avid, Adobe Premiere and Adobe AfterEffects <not sure about the spellings, heh, I don't work with the programs>.

I am pretty damn sure they have and have proven to be just as good as Intel's offerings, although at a lower price.

Am I right?

He believes that a Pentium 4 is a better bet and although I wouldn't go against him if money wasn't an issue, it is. The idea is not to blow over £600 on an extreme edition P4 that will perform only marginally better.

We want something very fast, but paying loads extra for only small performance increases seems totally pointless.

Opinions?

[Alan Mills]

I've used both Premiere 6.5 and After Effects 5.5 on my Athlon 1800+ system and they work fine, if that helps.