Best Set-up

The Non-Professional · Post by **The Non-Professional** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 8:07 pm

Whats the best set you should have on a computer for making AMVs, like Brand, HardDrive space, RAM, Video cards, and other things. IMgetting a new comp and I wanna make sure I have the best stuff to make AMVs

Synthangel · Post by **Synthangel** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 8:39 pm

Abit and Asus motherboards are decent. Epox is really good for overclocking. NForces are good overall. Hard drive, get two 120 GB 8MB cache HD's, and put them in RAID-0. Maxtor and Western Digital make 8MB cache ones. I'd say go with WD, cause I've had some bad problems with my Maxtor drives, but some other people love Maxtor. It's really your choice. RAM, get at least a gig of DDR ram. GeoRAM is nice (It's a brand, but it's kinda expensive). Video cards, it doesn't really matter. Go for the best and get a GeForce 4 or Radeon 9700. For processor, get AMD. Intel's not worth the price, and their processors are kind of bad to begin with. Also, AMD's can go like 10 or 15 degrees higher and still run safely. For your monitor(s), get at least one LCD. It refreshes differently and reduces the eyestrain. If you get a CRT, make sure that it'll go at least 85-90 Hz at the resolution to are going to run it at. I've been wondering. Is there a way to set Premiere to render on one processor if you have dual procs so you can use the other to do other stuff?

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 9:23 pm

I have a CRT at 1280x1024 60hertz

It's not that painful, really.

here's my specs:

AMD Athlon XP 1700+
Abit KG7-RAID (0,1, 0+1)
512MB DDR266 PC2100 Kingston
17" CRT (1280x1024 60hertz refresh MAX)
Creative Labs 3D Blaster Riva TNT2 32MB AGP (GF2 MX Chip)
Nvidia Detinator XP Drivers (28.something)
1x40GB Western Digital 7200RPM 2MB Cache
1x120GB Western Digital 7200RPM 8MB Cache
[Soon to be]1x160GB/180GB Western Digital 7200RPM 8MB Cache

That's about it.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 9:42 pm

I edit on my TI-86.

ph33r the blisteringly-fast 8 megahertz Z80 processor. Respect my 96kB of RAM.

Booyah.

buddykiller · Post by **buddykiller** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 9:48 pm

Synthangel wrote:I've been wondering. Is there a way to set Premiere to render on one processor if you have dual procs so you can use the other to do other stuff?

i'm not going to pretend that i know how to do it kuz i don't, but i'm almost positive it can be done, or at least i've heard of assigning certain programs to certain processors and even seen somebody do it, as well as seeing almost that exact same question answered on TechTV, i'm sure if ya go looking around you'll find out how to do it, or they might have it on TechTV's website http://www.techtv.com good luck ^_^

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 9:59 pm

trythil wrote:I edit on my TI-86.

ph33r the blisteringly-fast 8 megahertz Z80 processor. Respect my 96kB of RAM.

Booyah.

The Ti-89 is far superior.

Actually though I use a TI-83+

Back to the subject of computers...

Here are my specs:
Athlon 1800+
256 PC2700 DDR RAM
A 19 Gig hard drive that used to be huge
KT333 Soyo Dragon lite Mobo
Geforce4 MX 420 with analog out
Soundblaster Live! Value

This gets me by for now but I too will soon be upgrading in about half a year to my Dream Machine, (Which will probally look old a few years later...) My best suggestion would be to pick up a copy of Maximum PC's magazine and take a look at their best of the best list for that month. Also listen to Synthangel because I believe she/he? knows what they're talking about. Also besides being durable the Athlons can crunch Premiere code much better than intel processors because it isn't optimized for the pentiums... I don't know if I helped much but there is my 2 cents...

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:31 pm

Synthangel wrote:I've been wondering. Is there a way to set Premiere to render on one processor if you have dual procs so you can use the other to do other stuff?

Can't you just lower the process priority?

Nightowl · Post by **Nightowl** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:56 pm

Wow. I'm so tempted to give real world advice here... but the last time I did that, I was simply flamed and ignored. Get whatever you want. You'll be misinformed by biased opinions no matter where you go.

It also depends on your budget.

I'm not bitter. No.

-N

Professional 666 · Post by **Professional 666** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 11:16 pm

Christ, you people are rich.

I made my Super Smash Bros. Melee video on an AMD K6-2 266MHz with 128MB RAM and a 15gig harddrive. But that was a year ago, and that comp has had several cybernetic transplants since. One thing hasn't chagned, tho, it's super friggin' super S-Video breakout box for Super-Video resolutions.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 11:20 pm

I wish I was rich... my rig was rather cheap since I built it myself.