Since I work at a heartless corporation, they want out-of-the-box solutions for everything. My boss has said they want to get a "Precision 3660 Tower" from Dell and for a GPU it lists "Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, 3660T".
I used to know what was good and what was bad for PC parts, but I've long ago stopped keeping up with such endlessly changing data.
Will this decision be ok? Or should I fight for something different?
I mostly edit HD with some 4k occasionally.
I spend most of my time between New York and Los Angeles. In Nebraska.
On the page below, click on the link that says 'Avid Qualified Windows based computer' to see a list of computers that Avid guarantees will work. There are a bunch of Dells on there.
https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/Media-Composer-System-Requirements
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Carl Amoscato | Freelance Film & Video Editor | London, UK
You don't need a qualified computer for media composer. Get intel and an Nvidia GPU and it will be super stable.
Personally I'm not a fan of brand name systems, one never knows the quality of motherboards they use.
I have a self built 7980xe machine and Media Composer will transcode and export using 18 cores at 100% (its beautiful to see). And its 100% stable.
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