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Postby shadowninja777 » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:49 pm

hi i am upgrading my pc soon and i was wondring what really is the best pc setup for editing and money is no problem. and one more thing what kinds of
Graphics rending software is good for pro editing
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:10 pm

Money's no issue? Gee i'd like to be you...

How many thousand do you want to spend then? 4 grand? 5?
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Postby badmartialarts » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:33 pm

For a great editing PC, in my opinion, you need three things.

1) Memory. Like, 2 GB, 4 GB is even better. More is good, but don't go crazy here, because you still need...

2) Hard drives. 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). 7200 RPM drives are a minimum here, 10,000 RPM drives are better. What RAID levels you use is up to you, RAID 0 is very fast but offers little to no data protection so backups are important.

3) Processor. Actually, this isn't nearly as important as the first two, but a fast dual (or if money is truely no object, quad) core processor will improve performance significantly over a single processor setup.

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. I wouldn't get anything terribly fancy here unless you are going to do a significant amount of 3D work (in which case you'd want a OpenGL compatible card like a Quadro).

If money was no object for me, I'd get a setup like this:

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
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Postby shadowninja777 » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:38 pm

badmartialarts wrote:For a great editing PC, in my opinion, you need three things.

1) Memory. Like, 2 GB, 4 GB is even better. More is good, but don't go crazy here, because you still need...

2) Hard drives. 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). 7200 RPM drives are a minimum here, 10,000 RPM drives are better. What RAID levels you use is up to you, RAID 0 is very fast but offers little to no data protection so backups are important.

3) Processor. Actually, this isn't nearly as important as the first two, but a fast dual (or if money is truely no object, quad) core processor will improve performance significantly over a single processor setup.

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. I wouldn't get anything terribly fancy here unless you are going to do a significant amount of 3D work (in which case you'd want a OpenGL compatible card like a Quadro).

If money was no object for me, I'd get a setup like this:

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


thank i will talk to my boss about it :)
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Postby badmartialarts » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:53 pm

Whoa whoa, this is a corporate thing? You might be interested in a turnkey editing system them from a company like BOXX or another company.
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Postby shadowninja777 » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:02 pm

yeah more like a church or not profit org :)
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Postby Tab. » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:01 pm

Get a Mac.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:48 pm

Tab. wrote:Get a Mac.

Or build a Mac clone... same or better computer for around 1/3 the price.

I built one with my roomate a few weeks ago. Honestly felt like going to the local Apple store with a spec sheet and asking how they legitimized $2000 in labor costs to build a comprible system.
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Postby shadowninja777 » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:52 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
Tab. wrote:Get a Mac.

Or build a Mac clone... same or better computer for around 1/3 the price.

I built one with my roomate a few weeks ago. Honestly felt like going to the local Apple store with a spec sheet and asking how they legitimized $2000 in labor costs to build a comprible system.


cool tell me more about it
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:15 pm

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.
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Postby Athena » 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?
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Postby 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


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Postby 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.
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Postby 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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Postby Shazzy » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:29 am

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