Best i7 board for Edius 5.0 SD/HD system

[ChrisFar]

I am still an SD shooter upgrading to HD as my clients need. I am building a new system and want to know which is the best of the i7 boards for Edius 5.0 and SD.
Thanks in advance for your opinions.

Chris

[JackB]

I just built an i7 system, and I would suggest the ASUS P6T, P6T Deluxe (6 SATA, plus 2 SAS OR SATA), or P6T Deluxe Ver. 2 (w/o the SAS controller).

I don't know yet how this will run with Edius, but I believe it's the best i7 board currently available and worth considering. If there are issues with Edius and i7, I don't think this board will be reason for them.

[UlfLaursen]

I just built an i7 system, and I would suggest the ASUS P6T, P6T Deluxe (6 SATA, 2 more SAS OR SATA, or P6T Deluxe Ver. 2 (w/o the SAS controller).

I don't know yet how this will run with Edius, but I believe it's the best i7 board currently available and worth considering. If there are issues with Edius and i7, I don't think this board will be reason for them.

I have Edius 5 on a P6T board with XP Pro 32 and so far nu issues, just upgraded with a 9800 GT graphicscard. I have only done a few tests yet, but so far it is a great system, now also with RT effects.

/Ulf

[Dry Biscuit]

Running an i7 sytem here on an Asus P6T, Vista 64, Edius 5.01 with HD Spark AND Firecoder Blu with no problem whatsover - System runs like a dream !!

Mark

[Claire]

Mark,

I assume the Firecoder Blue is in the PCIe x1 slot?

[Dry Biscuit]

Hi Claire,

Yes FCB in the x1 slot. Originally the graphics card and FCB would not play nicely together but when the graphics card was dropped down to the 2nd x16 slot all was fine.

I can now quite happily be rendering out to H264 or Mpeg2 whilst still carrying on editing in Edius without any hit on performance - fantastic.

Cheers

Mark

[Claire]

Excellent news Mark.

So what is your video card?

Mine is a 7600 GS 'Silent', this has no fan but instead a rather thick passive heatsink. With my present mbo this bulk prevented me from placing the card directly under the FCB so if i buy this board I would possibly have to replace my video card as well. So please tell, thanks!

[Dry Biscuit]

Nothing fancy just an ATI HD4830 - Gives me dual DVI-D out and does the job.

[STORMDAVE]

I just built an i7 system, and I would suggest the ASUS P6T, P6T Deluxe (6 SATA, plus 2 SAS OR SATA), or P6T Deluxe Ver. 2 (w/o the SAS controller).

I don't know yet how this will run with Edius, but I believe it's the best i7 board currently available and worth considering. If there are issues with Edius and i7, I don't think this board will be reason for them.

I second the P6T, but the one I have is the "Professional" edition. Has less PCIe slots, but is a great motherboard. Very very fast.

I put in an i7 920 and it's running very cool under Vista x64 with the HDSpark. Shows 8 processors since Intel brought back Hyperthreading.

[vortigern]

This works OK

[Hawke]

Anyone tried the GigaByte GA-EX58-UD4P, seems to have the right sort of spacing so that an FCblu, Graphics card, HD Storm, and SCSI card can coexist without blocking each others air supply!
If so results and layout would be appreciated.