Best setup for AE
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- clearThoughts
What is the BEST desktop I can get to run After Effects CS5?
- nthkl0
MacPro 8 or 12 core
16gb of Ram at least
115gb primary SSD HD
40gb scratch SSD
1tb storage , 7200-10,000 Barracuda RPM HD
esata card + esata external storage solution
30" primary apple cinema display, 2x 24" apple cinema displays
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 (You'll need 2 cards for 3 displays, power one of the 24's with the stock powermac card.)- $$$$$$$ifeltdave
- Macsales.com for that aftermarket shit.nthkl
- vaxorcist0
SSD's make a big difference according to a friend who does AE all day long....
- Hombre_Lobo0
you could buy a windows machine for about £700 that would be a powerhouse.
off the top of my head -
i5 2500k
8gb ram
120gb SSD system drive
1TB storage drive
+£130 motherboardAlso dont be fooled into buying a mega graphics card. They really dont do anything to cut render times, they only display the image on the screen (obviously buy a gpu that will power several monitors if needed).
Soon though OpenCL will help hardware acceleration. And nvidia's current GPU render software using cuda cores is ok, but not integrated into AE in anyway.
Get nvidia for future proofing GPU rendering though. A GTX 460 768mb is a solid bang for buck choice, it will also play any game (other than crysis and a maybe another) well.