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Hey folks,
This is Nikita from ButterSound Studios from Seattle, Washington. We were wondering if it would be effective to invest in a dual socket motherboard for our video system as opposed to upgrading our current cpu.
For our current video shoots, we're recording 7 SDI inputs through a BlackMagic capture card and noticed that when we try to record the multi-corder AND output feed, our cpu, an 8-core i7 3.2 ghz processor, is spiking and dropping frames when we lower the recording memory buffer size or stress the system with a lot of inputs.
Ideally, we want the recording memory buffer size to as small as possible for the flat screen TV's we output the live feeds to. We have 32GB of DD4 RAM and an ASUS Turbo GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card to handle all the displaying.
If the issue is processing delegation, I feel like the cores may be a better idea. Since the dual socket just increases the number of cores available for the computer the access, would this adequately reduce the CPU load? Buying a better processor is a 50% increase in price for a 12% increase in computing power. For the same price, we could double the cpu core count and split the load.
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1) Are you using SSD on your current system?
2) If your not, I would recommend swapping Hard Drives for
1 SSD for OS
1 SSD for Recordings
1 SSD for Playing Media files
All on separate SATA Controllers if possible.
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Quote:an 8-core i7 3.2 ghz processor Specifically, which i7 CPU do you have? If you go the dual socket motherboard option, you would have to buy two (2) Xeon processors.
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SportsNetUSA.net wrote:Quote:an 8-core i7 3.2 ghz processor Specifically, which i7 CPU do you have? If you go the dual socket motherboard option, you would have to buy two (2) Xeon processors. We have an SSD Raid setup for video capture and an i7-6900k that has a LGA2011-V3 socket. Why do we need Xeon processors? Does a motherboard like this require Xeon processors? https://www.amazon.com/Z...=dual+socket+motherboardWhat if we switched to the AMD Ryzen Architecture? Would handling the clock speed rather than the core-count be more worthwhile?
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