SuperServer 6013P-8: Dual Intel® Xeon™ Processors 3.06 GHz, SCSI, etc.
SUPER X5DA8
Dual Xeon 3.06GHz
Intel E7505 chipset
533/400 Front Side Bus
12GB DDR memory
dual Ultra320 SCSI
4U/Tower

That will be the basis of my set-up.. .I still gotta pick out video card , monitors etc.
But with 16 processors working with 12 gigs of ram.. say goodbye to rendering!!!!


Post your Dream NLE set up in this topic.. lets see how imagative we can get!!

"Everything you know is wrong"

- disinfo.com

I got a pretty sweet setup, too.

666 megahertz Intel Pentium III Processor
20 Gig HD
320MB PC133 SDRAM...

...Hey, who's laughing? Shutup! My system's awesome.
Ah screw it.

In all seriousness, though, editing on such a slow comp. with little disk space SUCKS. I would not recommend it.

--Alan

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Man I know how you feel... I have a PIII 900 , 384 ram, with 8 gigs give er take for editing..

But soon I will have enough cash to get the above system I talked about. This thing will never have to be upgraded!! EVER!!

"Everything you know is wrong"

- disinfo.com

Hmmm. I'd like a Vapochill p4 special system from chillblast.com. It's a 3.06Ghz HT P4 system with 1Gb RAM, 17" TFT Monitor all overclocked to 3.7Ghz!

I'd like that hooked up to an Apple XServe with at least 120Gb of RAID storage over gigabit networking.

Hooked up to that, i'd like my Powerbook G4. This is basically so I can do large 3dsmax or lightwave projects on the PC while still being able to edit with the Powerbook.

I'll not see much change out of 10,000 GBP for that lot ... and I already own the powerbook!

Richard Purves
One Man Band
omb@blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.omb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

What is up with video cards? I heard Matrox has the best card out there right now? I am not so informed on that, anyone else know what the deal is with video cards , matrox especially?

"Everything you know is wrong"

- disinfo.com

Matrox has a good new graphics card called the Matrox Parhelia. One of its main features is its ability to allow simultaneous, full-screen previewing on video monitor or tv, while also having 2 other moniters for editing. Other good video cards are the ATI display cards (which is what I have and it works well). Go to the company's website to find the video card that you would want.

Six+Plus Productions

The question is ... what do you want out of a video card? If you just want to edit video, word process and other non game applications ... and use two monitors without buying two cards then Matrox is what you want.

ATI makes wonderful hardware, but my experience of their drivers (both mac and pc) is very poor. I've had no end of bother with them and frankly I personally wouldn't touch them with a 40ft pole.

Nvidia cards on the other hand are a dream to install and work with. However, their TV outputs usually leave a little something to be desired. As far as i'm concerned, a GeForce 4 ti4200 will play all current games.

Richard Purves
One Man Band
omb@blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.omb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

i have a dell pentium 4
running at 2.4 gig
1 gig of memery
100 gig hard drive
all in wonder video card 8500dv
2- 17 inch flat screens
4x dvd burner
surround sound
i have one questions . i just got the ati all in wonder video card 8500 dv and im trying to hook up 2 monitors so i can extend one monitor to the other but its not working. i also have a built on video card on my mother board. i hooked up 1 monitor to the ati and the other to the on board. still dont work what shoul i do.

Not an expert on this but... I believe that you need a video card that supports dual monitor display and I am not sure if the ATI all in wonder cards do... if they do u should be able to right click on your desktop.. go to display and see two monitors appear?
Hope that helps

"Everything you know is wrong"

- disinfo.com

Not sure about ATI cards, especially the original All In Wonder cards ... but all nvidia GeForce series cards do, especially the GF4's.

It's more a question of OS support and graphic card driver support than anything.

Richard Purves
One Man Band
omb@blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.omb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Here's what I'm goin with:
an 8088, or a tandy 1000
256k ram
top of the line EGA graphics
14 inch monochrome monitor
2 mb hard drive..

think about how AWESOME this'll be!

hahah guess the film boyz arent always computer geeks..

first of all, dual monitors USED to require two video cards, but with the newest ATI 9700 AIW (All in wonder) card, this is no longer the case.

Newer video cards (such as the AIW 9700 pro) has "dual heads" which is basically an ability to hook up 2 separate monitors to one card. Effectively, you'll be circumventing all and any problems you'd have with having two video cards installed on your system (especially in windows, this can be VERY VERY vicious... and especially if you have 2 vid cards of different brands) anyways, hydravision (what its called) is a very very good compromise.

As for a dream editing system, I dont understand why so many people would get a PC... I've used editing systems under PC and Mac before and I've gotta tell you... for straight-up dream video editing system... Macs beat out ANYTHING that pc's can offer...

a dual g4 system with plenty of ram and FCP 3 is my dream system... who needs a RAID array? it's redundant unless you're looking for backup, the thoroughput of firewire simply wont tax out the modern 7200RPM IDE drive... As for storage, macs use the same drives as PCs... so they're just as cheap! Seriously though, FCP whips out anything on PC right now, the avid programs, vegas video, premiere (gah! premiere is ass to use compared to FCP!) not only does it have faster render times etc etc... with new optimizations under OSX... FCP runs soooo nice and smooth even without fancy extra $$$ render cards (Matrox RapterDV etc)...

Mac's rule for video. Hands down.

Yeah, I like the mac. except i'd go for the RAID so I can do HD 4:4:4 uncompressed. and i'd need a HD card. That would be sweet.

Although if we're talking true dream, I'd go Inferno on an SGI. Wow!

joren