New Pc Problems

[James Sharp]

Ok I just spent 1200 dollars on a new pc. here are the important specs then i will get to my problem.

CPU: amd athlon 64 x2 3800
Ram: 1 gig corsair dual channel
Vid Card: 2 geforce 6600 Gt 128 MB
hd: 160 Gig Hitachi

well thats it for the important specs. anyways im fuming mad because its giving me problems with my premire pro. it renders slower than my old pc with a athlon xp 1600 and 512 of ram and a fx 5600....whats going on???

[godix]

A) The video card doesn't make a damned bit of difference for rendering.
B) RAM really doesn't make a difference for rendering either
C) You're probably not running anything designed for using the second processor so it's usefullness is limited
D) Which means, in effect, your rendering is the difference between one Athlon 3800 and one Athlon 1600.

So, basically, it's all about the CPU. Are you running programs in the background that are swiping CPU time that you didn't run on the previous PC? If so ditch them when rendering. Similarly don't be running programs that access the HD at the same time you're rendering, that can cause delays as well.

[James Sharp]

ya i am running other programs
but thats what a dual core processor is supposed to be great at. but i will just run that and see if it helps. but the biggest problem i have is that i was expecting to see a huge increase in performance.. cause all i ever hear in hardware forums is how much my processor kicks ass in multi tasking. but im not seeing it. well thanks for the advice i will give it a go

[Scintilla]

Are you rendering with the same codec as before, at the same resolution as before, etc. etc.?

[Keeper of Hellfire]

What OS are you running? WinXP home? AFAIK it doesn't support dual core technology, and so it runs on a dual core proc slower than on a single core. You must switch to WinXP Pro.

[trythil]

it renders slower than my old pc with a athlon xp 1600 and 512 of ram and a fx 5600....whats going on???

Could be limitations imposed by the OS, as the above post pointed out.

Dual-core systems usually present themselves as two CPUs, and the OS process scheduler must know how to effectively deal with that. If your OS is crippled in some way, I wouldn't be at all surprised if performance is worse than before.

[Chap]

Premiere isn't Dual Proc capable yet, and I'm also almost sure its not 64bit yet either.

[NeoQuixotic]

Premiere isn't Dual Proc capable yet, and I'm also almost sure its not 64bit yet either.

Well, Vegas 6 is dual core/processor capable right now! Yet another reason I prefer Vegas. Now only if I had a dual core instead of an aging Pentium 4 (w/o HT) !

[milkmandan]

make sure you check ur rendering codec. make sure its a fast one or the same one you did before...

you should try to close all other programs, EVERYTHING ELSE..check ur task manager to see which processes are open and close the ones you KNOW are on, but useless...

then try it, see if its still slow.

[trythil]

I'm also almost sure its not 64bit yet either

Doesn't really make a difference if you run Athlon64 chips in 32-bit mode, which is what anyone not running Windows does not do.

make sure you check ur rendering codec. make sure its a fast one or the same one you did before...

you should try to close all other programs, EVERYTHING ELSE..check ur task manager to see which processes are open and close the ones you KNOW are on, but useless...

then try it, see if its still slow.

If he's using the same software he was using before the hardware upgrade, none of those would make a difference.