Purchasing Rig for CS4 Need advice for GPU and RAM

I am a purchaser that has been assigned the task of buying a new machine to run Premier Pro (CS4 suite was purchased).
I will be buying a HP xw9400 but require a graphics card. What line of cards will Preimer take advantage of?
Does Premier need a great graphics card?
Will 4gb of ram be enough?

I hear you loud and clear! Anyone eager to snap up those old Pinnacle cards rusting away in my basement?
This is not benchmarked but a review of an HP xw6600 by Videomaker Magazine claims "and we could render a clip for YouTube (as H.264) in about double real time." Without the CX but with a pair of Xeon E5450's. Whereas the CX promises real time rendering.
I work with HDV and I think I will possibly look at CS4 with a $400 nVidia Quadro FX and native (CS4) video acceleration. And live with whatever performance I get.
CS3 encoding to MPEG2-DVD with four cores versus 8 cores on my system with my new PPBM3 benchmark is disappointing. The reason is that my testing has shown that for a good disk configuration with my 8-core system running at standard speed the MPEG2-DVD encode time is 75 seconds, disabling 4 cores the processing time only goes to 80 seconds in my I hear you loud and clear! Anyone eager to snap up those old Pinnacle cards rusting away in my basement?
This is not benchmarked but a review of an HP xw6600 by Videomaker Magazine claims "and we could render a clip for YouTube (as H.264) in about double real time." Without the CX but with a pair of Xeon E5450's. Whereas the CX promises real time rendering.
I work with HDV and I think I will possibly look at CS4 with a $400 nVidia Quadro FX and native (CS4) video acceleration. And live with whatever performance I get.
CS3 encoding to MPEG2-DVD with four cores versus 8 cores on my system with my new PPBM3 benchmark is disappointing. The reason is that my testing has shown that for a good disk configuration with my 8-core system running at standard speed the MPEG2-DVD encode time is 75 seconds, disabling 4 cores the processing time only goes to 80 seconds
Premiere Pro PPBM+v3 unpublished data
. Let us all hope that things Improve in CS4!

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Hi experts;
Here looking for an advice about coalesce and deallocate unused space.
I got this tablespace with 87% full, one of the table in that tablespace has 1,150,325 records. I'm going to delete 500,000 records from that table, but to release the space used by those records I understand that I need to execute other procedure. I was reading about coalesce tablespace and deallocate unused space.
I found that apparently, both process can help me to free space. If you want to share with me your comments, about advantages or disadvantages about them, in order I can take the best solution?
Thanks for your comments.
Al

Hi
after deleted rows, the high water mark is still the same and so the size of the table. you need to bring down the water mark
here is what you need to do to bring down the high water mark. We do this monthly for performance purpose.
This is an EBS R12 system but the procedures are the same for EBS database or non EBS database.
After you purge or delete data in a table
1) alter table APPLSYS.WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES move; <-- this operation will invalidate all indexes attache to the table
2)select owner, index_name, status from dba_indexes -- list all invalid object for user APPLSYS
where table_owner = upper('APPLSYS')
and
status NOT IN ('VALID','N/A');
3)spool idxrebuild.sql --generate script to rebuild indexes.
select 'alter index ' ||owner||'.'||index_name ||' rebuild online;' from dba_indexes
where table_owner = upper('APPLSYS')
and
status <> 'VALID';
4) run idxrebuild.sql -- to rebuild indexes. -- at this point if you check spaces on the table, it is still the same, you need to run #5
5)exec fnd_stats.gather_schema_stats ('APPLSYS'); --fnd_stat is for EBS system you can replace with the database equivalent command.
use this statement to count the block before and after the operation to see the different.
select DISTINCT(SEGMENT_NAME), count(blocks) "Total Block" from dba_extents
where
owner IN ('APPLSYS')
AND segment_name = 'WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES'
Hope this help.

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