What's in your...[computer configuration talk]

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:42 pm

Kalium wrote:Hey!

Besides, think of the possabilities inherent in an editing Beowulf cluster! You know you want it.... Rendering measured in 1000's of frames per second...

I'm perfectly happy with my dual Athlon

. I can wait 5 minutes for a render in AE (unlike the 11 hours Rozard goes through

)

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:10 pm

dwchang wrote:
Kalium wrote:Hey!

Besides, think of the possabilities inherent in an editing Beowulf cluster! You know you want it.... Rendering measured in 1000's of frames per second...
I'm perfectly happy with my dual Athlon . I can wait 5 minutes for a render in AE (unlike the 11 hours Rozard goes through )

HAhaha, and then has it crap out before it finishes (or was that premiere?...)

Let's see, I built this computer just short of 2 years ago.

Hardware:
AMD XP 2100+
512 megs pc 2700 ram
80 Gig IBM drive (OS and programs)
80 Gig Seagate drive (storage)
CD-RW
DVD-ROM
GeForce 4 Ti 4200 (128)
C-media sound card
Never put in a floppy drive

Software:
Adobe Premiere 6
Adobe Photoshop 6
Flash MX

Standard free software (Vdub, besweet, etc)

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:57 am

FlipStart PC...WinXP, 1 GHz, 30GB, 256MB...and tres kawaii.
Not my editing machine; they're not for sale yet. But two of these might make for a challenging Iron Chef session (with or without external monitors). Quu could carry both in his pockets.

On topic...up to now I've been using a 2-year-old Shuttle SS51G with a 2.53GHz P4. This week I ordered parts for a new machine. It'll be another Shuttle - SB61G2. Not the best-looking Shuttle, but it has a 23% rebate on it.

That will hold a 3.0 GHz P4 which is where the price-performance break (GHz per $, most bang per buck) is for P4s these days.

It will also have a DVD drive this time (an old A06), so I will have a chance to try working with ripped, instead of captured, footage.

mike_6289 · Post by **mike_6289** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 1:40 pm

CPU: Pentium 4 2.66B
Motherboard: GA-SINXP1394
RAM: 512MB Dual Channel DDR 333 (Samsung)
Video Card: GeForce 4 MX440 with 64MB DDR RAM (ASUS)
Hard Drives:
2x 9.1GB SCSI HD 10,000RPM Running RAID-0 on Mylex Raid Card (U160)
40GB Western Digital HD with 8MB cache and 7200RPM
My old faithful 202MB Maxtor 7213AT

Power Supply: Enermax 350 Watt PSU
Black Panasonic Floppy
Chenming Case (10 Bay, Black)
Temperature Sensor thing and fan speed controller
Belkin Wireless LAN 54G
Sound Card: SB Live! Value

SnhKnives · Post by **SnhKnives** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:16 pm

ok, here is how it goes...

I have my Laptop and my desktop in which i do editing on both....

SPECS

Laptop:

Intel Centrino 1.8 ghz
1024mb PC2700 DDR Ram
Asus Notebook Motherbaord
Mobility Radeon 9700
40 GB @ 4200 RPM
15.4" Flat screen attatched moniter.
DVD/CD-RW drive @ 2x write/16x write

Desktop:

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ @ 2.2 Ghz
1024mb PC3200 DDR Ram
Asus A7n8xE-Delux Motherboard
Radeon 9800 Pro Video Adapter
100gb Western Digital HDD
17" LCD by Liquid Video
CD-RW @ 16x Write
DVD-ROM Drive

Shared:

200 GB Maxtor HDD @ 7200 RPM, 8mb cache via USB 2.0

Software:

Adobe Premiere Pro (since Feb)
Adobr After Effects 6.0
Adobe Photoshop 7
DVD Decypter
DGIndex
Avisynth 2.5.5
Vitrual dub / Virtual dub mod
Adobe Encore

Yeah....

My first video was edited using Adobe premiere 6.5 and After Effects 5.5

So basically....yeah... im a fairly new editor so i cant really say all my old work was done on crappy computers.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:56 pm

My first editing system back in 1999 was...

Pentium 1 200ghz
3 gigs of HD space
64 MB of ram
32x CD-ROM
4X CD burner
CPH030 TV Tuner card hooked up to my old 1988 camcorder that couldn''t play EP tapes

Win 98SE
Adobe Photoshop 4
Adobe Premiere 3.0 LE
Paint Shop Pro 5
Xing Mpeg Encoder

---------------------

Now I work with.... a 3 year old outdated system with some minor tweaks

1.5 ghz amd athlon xp
512 MB ram
ATI Radeon 9000
120 GB (main HD)
120 GB (Storage)
DVD-ROM
Pioneer A-06 DVD-R

Win XP Pro
Adobe Photoshop 8 CS
Adobe Premiere 6.5
Adobe After Effects 6
Paint Shop Pro 5 (I don't care what anyone says, PSP5 is the best version)
Adobe Illustrator 9

Alot of people wonder how the hell I work with such outdated equipment. It's all persistence

I've lasted far longer on my systems that most of my friends who upgrade every year. 8)

JCD · Post by **JCD** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:56 pm

Let's show my hardware slowness...
Athlon Thunderbird 1000 Mhz
512 MB SD-RAM
Nvidia Geforce 2 MX (damn that does suck for 2d)
Terratec TValue capture card
Lite on DVD drive 16x
CD-RW 32/12/8x

And software hawtness:
Adobe Premiere 6.0
Adobe Photoshop 7
Paint Shop Pro 5 (better for simple things)
Virtual Dub & AMVapp & stuff

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 3:46 pm

Simple enough,

My own computer, aka. "Space Groove"

Athlon XP2400+
512MB DDR533 RAM
GeForce FX5200 128MB DDR (looking to replace it with a 6800GT, but no money yet)
80GB HD
15" LCD monitor
16x DVD ROM drive

For software, Premiere 6.5 and Photoshop 7 are about all I use - well, and the standard stuff. My brother's system, which is also involved in some of my editing/exporting/testing, etc. is aka. "Basement Rig" (no longer in the basement) and has

Athlon XP1800+
512MB DDR466 RAM
GeForce Ti4200 128MB DDR (this card is great. I wish I had that in place of the deceptively-numbered 5200, which is almost twice slower in reality)
80GB HD
15" LCD monitor
16xDVD ROM drive & 40x Samsung CD burner

That's about all

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:12 pm

Otohiko wrote:Simple enough,

My own computer, aka. "Space Groove"

Athlon XP2400+
512MB DDR533 RAM
GeForce FX5200 128MB DDR (looking to replace it with a 6800GT, but no money yet)
80GB HD
15" LCD monitor
16x DVD ROM drive

Thats exactly what Im using currently except I have an AMD XP2000+ precessor instead.

Hmmm...
The computer I used to use before was....

AMD 1800+
12 GBish HD
128 MB DDR RAM
Same graphics card
Forgot sound card

Programs I use
Smartripper
MS Paint
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe ImageReady
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects 6.0

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:37 pm

o.o i never posted here... wow... anyway here goes:

when i first started i was using a 450mhz computer... it worked well for what i was doing... then i moved to my 600mhz laptop which lasted me all the way until i got this a few years ago and hasn't failed me yet... well it has as in harddrive failer andv arious other problems, but editing wise, its my baby

Windows XP Pro
Intel P4 2.8ghz
Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra (i need to upgrade >.<)
1024mb DDR ram
Radeon 9700 pro (with 19" LCD and 17" CTR monitors)
Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer (with 5.1 speakers)
2x 120gb WD harddrives
1z 200gb Maxtor dardrive
Pioneer A05 4x dvd-rw

>.> i must add that my system can alt-tab out of doom3 and dwchang's can't!!! LOL HAHAHAHHA intel all the way :O j/k

I can edit straight from avs files without doing the swap. i can also edit while using other other programs like photoshop and aftereffects.

Programs:
Adobe Premiere 6.5
Adobe After Effects 5
Adobe Photoshop 6
Vdub
dvd2avi
dvd decrypter
and anything i feel like using

Pwolf