a great editing pc

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:39 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:It's only worth it if you really want to run OSX - Getting all the stuff together in terms of compatibility lists took a week and I wasn't involvved.

I'm actually seriously interested in this, since I can't upgrade my PC anymore. Can you point me somewhere?

Neo_Kuleshov · Post by **Neo_Kuleshov** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:54 am

badmartialarts wrote:
8 GB of memory
Intel top-of-the-line quad-core processor
5 hard drives, two 80 GB 10,000 RPM SATA in RAID 0 for a 'render' drive, two 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA in RAID 0 for a 'source' drive, one 120 GB drive for a boot drive.
DVD burner/reader (fastest available, 40x/16x/40x or whatever)
Quadro graphics card with 512 MB of memory and dual-monitor support
External 2 TB 'backup' drive
2 nice 21 inch flat panels, HD sized
Fancy keyboard, mouse, etc because I can. :O

*drools*

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:03 am

badmartialarts wrote:8 GB of memory

Of course, you would need a 64-bit OS if you didn't want half of that going to waste.

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:26 am

Kionon wrote:
BasharOfTheAges wrote:It's only worth it if you really want to run OSX - Getting all the stuff together in terms of compatibility lists took a week and I wasn't involvved.
I'm actually seriously interested in this, since I can't upgrade my PC anymore. Can you point me somewhere?

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Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:29 am

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Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:15 pm

badmartialarts wrote:For top-of-the-line editing, you want a fast RAID array for your 'working' drive (the drive you render to), and for truly serious editing you'd want another fast RAID array for your 'source' drive (though for the source drive, size takes precedence over speed).

That's wrong by any means. Your source drive has at least to be as fast as your render drive. You can't render faster than you provide the source. And because the rendering itself takes time too, it better is faster. Because the sources usually are randomly accessed, while the output can be written continously (assuming a defragmented drive), short access times are good for the source drives. So if you have 2 7.200 rpm drives (to keep it affordable) in RAID 0 as source drives, one 10.000 rpm drive for rendering would be enough.

badmartialarts wrote: Processor. Actually, this isn't nearly as important as the first two,..

You don't use much effects, right? If you use much effects, or in the near future HD resolutions, the CPU can't be fast enough. Your fast hard drives become really useless if they run idle because they have to wait for the CPU.

badmartialarts wrote:Graphics accelerators actually usually aren't used by editing programs, but some of them can offload some of their effects to them for faster processing.

It depends much on the NLE. Many don't take any advantage of a fast graphics card, some use it for some tasks, but for example the NLE I'm using can perform any render task (preview, worksheet, final) via OpenGL, so a fast OpenGL card would give it a real kick. So check out what your NLE recommends.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:46 pm

Scintilla wrote:
badmartialarts wrote:8 GB of memory
Of course, you would need a 64-bit OS if you didn't want half of that going to waste.

Really? How come?

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:01 pm

Because a 32 Bit OS can't adress more. 2^32 = 4.294.967.296 = 4GB

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:57 pm

That is so immensely useful and good to know. I'll keep that in mind (I intend to buy a new comp when I move to a bigger place in April) Thanks.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:58 pm

Kionon wrote:
BasharOfTheAges wrote:It's only worth it if you really want to run OSX - Getting all the stuff together in terms of compatibility lists took a week and I wasn't involvved.
I'm actually seriously interested in this, since I can't upgrade my PC anymore. Can you point me somewhere?

I'll try to contact my roomate for the part lists he was working with.