Quick i7 spec check

[Olimain]

Thanks for your reply. I'm afraid none of this is any good for us though. This is for broadcast not just for personal use or YouTube so none of those codecs are much use. Space wise we're fine, with plenty of external storage if need be. It's almost all music videos/commercials so is short clips.

Re 12GB vs 6GB, is there really no gain?

Edit: Though with this motherboard I would imagine I'll add some extra disks to the RAID0 for the scratch disks.

I do some encoding myself, and you can easily save the space by using compressed codec like x264 loseless, lagarith or huffyuv. These lossless compression cut space requirement by 70~95% and use minimal amount of CPU power. The I/O CPU usage to read+write @ 178MB/s will probably be quite high anyway.

1080p 30FPS will require 178MB/s on read and write side, which your 500GB disks will struggle near the end. The 2x500GB will also only handle 92 minutes of your uncompressed video.

I've been through uncompressed video which was just a space waster with no benefit. I use some small USB Green HDDs that I don't use anymore or another disk over the GbE for lossless scratch disk. No speed penalty at all.

What kind of processing are you looking at? You're unlikely to need more than 6GB of ram.

[arthurleung]

Thanks for your reply. I'm afraid none of this is any good for us though. This is for broadcast not just for personal use or YouTube so none of those codecs are much use. Space wise we're fine, with plenty of external storage if need be. It's almost all music videos/commercials so is short clips.

Re 12GB vs 6GB, is there really no gain?

Edit: Though with this motherboard I would imagine I'll add some extra disks to the RAID0 for the scratch disks.

Triple-concurrent 1080p x264 encoding just about maxed out 4GB ram in my experience. That is with almost all settings at maximum.

I meant use the lossless compressed codec for your scratch files. Of course you're not going to use those codec for broadcasting.