PC for After Effects
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- clearThoughts
I have a macbook pro and am thinking of getting a PC just for After Effects.
Mac Pro's are way too expensive and I realized I can get a tower with similar specs for 1/4 of the price.I'm defo a Mac person, so would keep my Macbook Pro for the rest of the stuff.
Any ideas on what would be a good PC setup for AE??
- lambsy0
the best PC setup would be to run windows on your macbook pro.
- GeorgesII0
I currently run it on atlhon x2 5000 with 4gb of ram wich is stupid because windows xp only accept 3gb,
cost 300 euro to upgrade from a comp I got from autokern,
add 500gb running at 7200rpm , a decent video card that supports two screens and you're set.
- clearThoughts0
Do you reckon?
I'm not after Windows itself...I'm after paying £600 for a 2 Quad Processor PC rather than £2000 for a Mac Pro.
I would obviously prefer a Mac Pro, but can't really afford it at the moment. Specially since I just spent 1500 on a Macbook Pro...I'm sure there are decent PCs you could use for after effects.
A google search brought this one up for example....
http://thepcbusiness.com/Product…I was looking for tips though... maybe there's a good Dell out there.
- I got a $550 hackintosh... quadprocessor Q6600 about a year ago... love it
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- I got a $550 hackintosh... quadprocessor Q6600 about a year ago... love it
- detritus0
Presumably AE doesn't use the GPU, rather CPU, Memory and HD capacity.
So, build your own to a spec that fits your price and get only what you want. When I say 'build your own' I'm including getting your local shop to do it for you.
If AE is indeed RAM hungry, consider Windows 7 64-bit and 6+gb RAM.
imo.. NEVER buy Dell. Aside from monitors, or computers for noobs or parents, they're pretty shitty. Crap motherboards, slow memory and last generation components. And they seem to fuck up all the time, if my friends' experiences are anything to go by.
- AE does use the GPU, get a kick ass 3D card with a LOT of memory on it.zarkonite
- jazzman1210
I dont think AE for pc is 64 bit yet... so I dont think it will use more than 2 processors, so there would be no reason to get a machine with more than two processors , if im not mistaken
- yeah it may not be yet but you don't want to buy another computer to satisfy future editions.dan5382
- FallowDeer0
yeah there is no support for AE using 2 processors
you cant get a plugin which will mimic this, but all it does is open multiple AE programs to pretend that its doing multiple processor tasks
- epic_rim0
get a decent processor, but the main thing you want to do is get as much ram and hard drive space as possible. 8 gigabytes of ram. 4 terabytes of space. Video card isn't that big of a deal. The expensive video cards only help with offloading 3d rendering and maybe h.264 offloading
- +1. Just get the highest CPU, RAM and FSB you can afford, and plenty of storage.TheyLookLikeUs
- DoTheMacarena0
+1 on RAM. AE is a huge RAM hog, esp for multiprocessing. Ideally you want to give it 2GB MINIMUM for each processor. Also, It doesn't use GPU efficiently, like Motion does (for particles, 3d acceleration, blurs, etc.).
Hackintosh seems like a great option, anyone have any experience with updating, drivers, or other bugs?
- eieio0
interesting thread as i am going to be specing out a pc for after effects and 3d soon
- dan53820
Asus motherboard (good dependable), AMD Athlon X2 64 bit black edition, Antec true power power supply 8 gigs of ram, NVidia 9800 GT (1 gig), a 7200 RPM 1 terabyte drive for programs (main hard drive), 7200 RPM 1 terabyte drive for storing files, Windows 7 64 bit ultimate. <---- these are my specs and don't have any problems running premier, AE, PS, Illustrator, and lots a browser windows with no lag whats so ever.
You can get into much better setups but my whole system (after shopping around) really costs under 800.
- soynutz70
If you like macs, spec it out so you can make it a hackintosh, that way you get the best of both worlds. http://wiki.osx86project.org/wik…
- kalkal0
I wouldn't use a hackintosh for production work, anything could go wrong.
Aside from that, depending on what hardware you have, it can be a real pain in the ass to get working right.
So, if you still plan on that, do your research first.