8760w for video editing. Fan noise and heat questions

Hi,

I plan to buy the HP 8760w next week and use it for video editing (Premiere Pro CS 5.5).

I work with video editing (and music production). This is a highly creative process and having a very silent machines that now and then revs up and makes a lot of fan noise is not what I want...

Knowing that "soon it will rev up and make a lot of nose" is something I don't like. I will just sit and wait for the fan noise...

A smooth, nice constant low freq fan noise is ok. But not a fan that goes up in speed and makes a whining noise will not work with me.

QUESTION 1: The configuration I was planning to buy is the following. Is this a good configuration for Premiere Pro? Are there any fan issues with this configuration?

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HP 8760w
Core i7-2630QM,
17.3 FHD Dreamcolor,
NVIDIA Quadro 4000M,
Webcam,
8GB DDR3 RAM,
750GB HDD,
Blu-Ray Combo,
802.11 a/b/g/n, BT,
Win 7 PRO 64,
3yr Warranty
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QUESTION 2: Exporting (rendering) from Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and also running Media Encoder for long programs normallay keeps the CPU at almost 100% and makes efficient use of the graphics card. On my desktop PC today temps go up and it is very clear this is demanding work. a) Will the 8760w handle long export tasks where the CPU and GPU are running at their max for several hours without getting too hot? b) will the fan run full speed and mak lots of noise during this time?

QUESTION 3: Is the 8760w reliable? Can you have it running for entire days, day after day using the CPU and GPU at max?

QUESTION 4: What about the built audio card? Does it work well with ASIO? (For Cubase etc). Can you get down to latency time to around 2-6 ms?



The most important question is: Fan noise. When sitting and editing with Prmiere Pro CS 5.5 and using CPU / GPU hungry plugins etc - will the fan noise drive me nuts...? oR is is gentle and smooth...?


Thanks in advance for your kind help!
Lars

 

I own the LG673EA model (i7-2630QM, Quadro3000M, 256GB SSD, 750GB HDD, 16GB RAM, regular HD display (no DreamColor)). I use it for 3D (Houdini), compositing (Nuke & AfterEffects), occasionally Premiere and all kinds of VFX software.

My answers:

Q1: as stated above, my config is different (lower than yours) and the fan does indeed spin up and down etc. You will notice it, and if you are as sensitive as you say, it will be an issue for you. I do think it is a good config for Premiere Pro, however.

Q2: a) I would say yes. I do simulations and long renders in Houdini and I haven't had any issue; b) yes, definitely. I wouldn't say "lot's of noise" (as in unbearable) but you will notice it;

Q3: yes, in my experience;

Q4: no idea.

Dragos

 

There's virtually no laptop on the market today that will remain silent (without overheating) during video editing.

 

I'm using it with ASIO4All and Ableton, where it was not problem to lower the buffer to 256 samples without glitches... It's clearly the best integrated Audio-solution I have ever heard. No noise and drives my AKG's pretty good.