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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Building a PC - video.

Mitch Martinez said:
do you have any make/model info on your cooler that you're running for your processor? so you've overclocked the i7? how do you like it? is it a hard process? we haven't gone down that road for my PC (yet) so I'm curious about some personal experiences/stories...
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I have an experience that I have wrote about it a lot here:
http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=44286


Mitch Martinez said:
Not yet. I just downloaded CS5 last night and will be testing it out on Sunday. I'll let you know what it's like after we fire that up.
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you know the hack of the MPE? to make the un-supported 480 works?
 
Mitch Martinez said:
We were talking about putting in a SSD drive in addition to the existing internal drives. My friend was saying that they die relatively quickly in comparison to the spinning drives with a diminishing space capacity (in addition to the cost).

Do you have any personal experience with how long they last? I'm definitely interested... Any specific recommendations for a drive (brand/capacity/etc.)?
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it depends weather its an SLC or MLC.. MLC should run around 7-9 years with 100GB per day utilization.. SLC should last about 200 years.. of course SLC is much more expensive..
 
Is there any specific battery for the desktop, so that I can use it on the set/location too. If possible I just want to avoid purchasing a laptop too.
 
Mitch Martinez said:
I'll capture the video footage on Sunday and try to have it uploaded this coming week.

Does anyone want any photos of any of the parts or connections? It could be helpful for anyone who doesn't want to watch the video footage...
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Please do. Thank you very much for sharing the information. Simply awesome.
 
Mohammed El Sharqawy said:
it depends weather its an SLC or MLC.. MLC should run around 7-9 years with 100GB per day utilization.. SLC should last about 200 years.. of course SLC is much more expensive..
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hmmm... that's interesting. my computer tech friend made it sound like they wouldn't nastly nearly that long. I'd definitely like to try one out. If not that, I'll set up a Raid array.
 
Prabhat said:
Is there any specific battery for the desktop, so that I can use it on the set/location too. If possible I just want to avoid purchasing a laptop too.
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well honestly, the main question is what are you doing on set with your computer? are you simply doing data transfer? if so, then I really think a laptop is the way to go. you could get one that serves that purpose for really cheap and spare yourself a lot of headache of dragging around a PC tower.

If you'll be doing major editing on set, then maybe a tower is the way to go. For supplying power to your computer, I guess it all depends on your set... How are you powering your lights? Most sets have power to plug in random electric devices, so unless you're shooting with natural daylight in the middle of a field, you'll probably have something to power your computer. And if you are in the middle of a field, it's one more reason to bring a laptop. :smile5:
 
Mitch Martinez said:
well honestly, the main question is what are you doing on set with your computer? are you simply doing data transfer? if so, then I really think a laptop is the way to go. you could get one that serves that purpose for really cheap and spare yourself a lot of headache of dragging around a PC tower.
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A laptop cannot handle the bandwidth of a fully functioning DIT workflow and Data Management, if you are charging for your services you should be bringing a Tower based cart unless its impossible to do so. Bring professional tools to professional work.
 
Instead of purchasing a laptop, I wanted to invest in only one robust desktop and use it on field too. Hence looking for a battery for around $200. Tower based cart sounds costly.
 
you could buy a used MacBook Pro on ebay or get a half-decent PC laptop for data transfer. I'm not sure the approximate cost of those but the convenience of a laptop on set is really nice when all you need to do is data transfer.

my guess is that you could easily get a reasonable solution for under $1000
 
hmm, maybe I will try to look for a desktop battery. I know it might be taking extra space and effort but..., I think I will give it a shot.
Thanks
 
good luck! let us know how it works out. if you find any good battery packs for such stuff, please tell us about that too.

the video is in queue for capture and will be online this week. sorry for the delay. have to address the paying work first. :)
 
Just started researching, will definitely let you know as soon as I find one. Right now I am trying to build the whole setup- production and post according to the requirements of a couple of projects.
 
Mitch Martinez said:
We were talking about putting in a SSD drive in addition to the existing internal drives. My friend was saying that they die relatively quickly in comparison to the spinning drives with a diminishing space capacity (in addition to the cost).

Do you have any personal experience with how long they last? I'm definitely interested... Any specific recommendations for a drive (brand/capacity/etc.)?
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I'd say this is top of the heap right now, Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s but it's very pricey, though also very fast indeed. My OCZ Vertex is good, I also use Kingston which is slower and has no TRIM function, I have 3 Corsair 128GB SSD's running for about a year now, these have Samsung controllers and appear to be as fast as ever, and are used regularly for camera file recording and transfer. Always make sure you use a TRIM capable SSD, turn off Indexing on the drive, and never defragment.

I'd also be interested in the improvement from a GTX285 which I have, (gives 3 layers of 4K RED before red lining ) to a 480

Paul
 
If you really want to run it tweaked out and quiet go to a water cooled PC. It sounds like your friend knows what he's doing so this ought not be a problem. You will want to build your own kit with a decent sized radiator and you will be able to cool your GPU, CPU and MOBO.
 
What we need is a thread sticked that is dedicated to custom builds including all parts and settings with speed tests. Questions could be posted on another thread so dilution doesn't occur.
 
Thanks for listing the specs and links. I'm hoping to build a PC with the parts you posted. I have a question though, which would be more beneficial for using Sony Vegas? Using a faster processor like i7 960 & maybe even 975X and getting a little more inferior video card? Or use the 480 like you listed and run the same i7 930 processor? I read somewhere that Vegas doesn't utilize the video card. Any thoughts on this, thanks
 
Okay. I'm so sorry for the huge delay. I got swamped with someone else's editing mess and had to drop everything to fix it as quickly as possible.

The video is roughly about 90 minutes and it's broken up into three parts. It really is informative if you don't know what everything is and how it goes together. I learned a lot from the process. I'm sure it could be done in a matter of minutes if there wasn't an explanation for a lot of the process but I think the info is good. Hopefully you guys will too.

Also, you're able to download these videos from vimeo - so if you want to download them and save them to the computer, feel free.

Here are the links:

Part One
http://vimeo.com/12832014
(the password is "red")

Part Two
http://vimeo.com/12830337
(the password is "red")

Part Three
http://vimeo.com/12828631
(the password is "red")


If you have any questions for me or my friend that helped me, I'm sure we'll do our best to help answer them. Chances are, the questions will be forwarded to him unless it's something simple or unless it's a question about how it's running. :)

Cheers!
 
Mohammed El Sharqawy said:
how is your 480 running with CS5's MPE?
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I haven't done the registry patch yet so I don't know at the moment. I plan on doing that patch this weekend so CS5 recognizes the CUDA capability for Mercury Playback of my video card. I'll let you know as soon as I get that running.
 
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