Hi,
I am a freelance video editor and graphic designer who owns an HPZ820. The HP was originally specced for Avid work but over time my workflow has changed to being primarily Adobe Premiere and After Effects. I'm getting provided with more and more 4K rushes and the system is struggling a bit.
The graphics card is an Nvidia Quadro 2000 which is definitely underpowered and isn't even supported in the latest Premiere release. Playback is terrible in Premiere with 4K and more so if I'm using Lumetri colour correction.
Other specs are as follows:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 @2.5Gz (2 processors)
Installed RAM: 32GB
Windows 10 Pro
System is installed to an SSD already.
I'm kind of ignorant as to compatibility between various processors, sockets, GPUs etc. It seems that buying new, compatible processors is really expensive and even upgrading to 64GB of RAM would cost £400, plus £500 for say a Nvidia 2070 GPU. So I'm wondering if my best option is to buy a new desktop or if this computer still has legs, given that the CPU is a bit old now and Adobe doesn't take advantage of the dual processor. Really isn't great in Avid either really, but then I'm using a lot of linked h264 media.
Thanks for any feedback.
John
I am a freelance video editor and graphic designer who owns an HPZ820. The HP was originally specced for Avid work but over time my workflow has changed to being primarily Adobe Premiere and After Effects. I'm getting provided with more and more 4K rushes and the system is struggling a bit.
The graphics card is an Nvidia Quadro 2000 which is definitely underpowered and isn't even supported in the latest Premiere release. Playback is terrible in Premiere with 4K and more so if I'm using Lumetri colour correction.
Other specs are as follows:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 @2.5Gz (2 processors)
Installed RAM: 32GB
Windows 10 Pro
System is installed to an SSD already.
I'm kind of ignorant as to compatibility between various processors, sockets, GPUs etc. It seems that buying new, compatible processors is really expensive and even upgrading to 64GB of RAM would cost £400, plus £500 for say a Nvidia 2070 GPU. So I'm wondering if my best option is to buy a new desktop or if this computer still has legs, given that the CPU is a bit old now and Adobe doesn't take advantage of the dual processor. Really isn't great in Avid either really, but then I'm using a lot of linked h264 media.
Thanks for any feedback.
John