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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 System For REDCine. Need advice

galexander said:
were you still looking for a PCIe lane adapter to go from 8x to 16x?

i found some more parts from the ML150 G3, one was this lane adapter. you'll have to add a bolt or something to lock your video card to the chassis as the riser will add about 3/8" of height but no biggie.

i also found a 3.3V to 5V PCI adapter, you might find useful. most of those server boards won't support the older PCI 32-bit cards.

i'll ship them to you for nothing if you donate something to the local SPCA or local animal shelter. send me a PM, if you're still in need
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Hey GA! Sorry to be so long responding... this and that, you know. Actually I was just today clearing off a table to begin putting new hardware into my computer when I checked REDuser and found this thread bumped. Installed OS long ago but then shelved everything until more available time.

I ordered the PCIe lane adapter when I ordered the video card and have them both on hand. By my calculations, if I remember correctly, I can dremel off a piece of the plastic hold-doun that Dell uses and still get the lid to close over it and hold it in place. Will find out if true later.

Have checked often on ebay for PCI cards that might work with a Vista 64 bit OS (I know, I know... Vista is junk... but you know what they say... one man's junk is another man's headache, or something:tongue: )

I'm thinking of adding a PCI eSATA card for peripherals (like a SATA DVD etc.) and possibly for an external RAID 0 as well. What do you think? Is this a workable, though I'm sure not optimal, optior?

edit: My bitch just had pups yesterday, so by feeding her and their hungry little mouths, I feel I am doing my part helping the SPCA by not taking them to the animal shelter. :-() But thanks for the offer of the parts. Very neighborly of you.
 
Hey guys,

I'm curious about, in the future, purchasing a RED ONE, or Scarlet (once the suspense is relieved) and curious whether or not my current system specs are up to the job...

Intel Q6600 (2.8 Quad)
Corsair DDR2 800MHz (4GB)
nVidia 8800GT 512mb (650mhz)
980GB HDD (160GB 7200, 320gb usb external, 500gb 7200)

Cheers :D
 
Jay A. Kelley said:
it does.. you just can't go beyond that
Jay
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Does it work with your system?

I'm trying to assemble a decent quadcore system for RedCine.

For start, I'll bet on 4GB DDR2 1066 RAM.

Maybe upgrade that to DDR3 1333, next year.

But I read here that processor power, HDD speed + a decent video card are decisive, not RAM. :detective2:
 
I currently have a dual-boot system with Vista and OSx86 Leopard. Leopard is super fast and stable. I just cannot get RedCine to run and SATA hotplug doesn't work. (Unfortunately all my CF readers and the Red drive connector are SATA.)
All of this works under Vista but this OS is weird. The first ten minutes it is really slow. I think it is indexing something. I can only run Redcine in Administrator mode. And this user control feature is just a joke.

But I'm still going Vista as soon as the Quicktime component comes out because of compatibility and licence issues.

I have a Intel QX9650 4x3Ghz CPU and it barely plays back the M-Proxies smoothly. Hard drives is a RAID1 (for now) and 4GB RAM.
 
sbaechler said:
All of this works under Vista but this OS is weird. The first ten minutes it is really slow. I think it is indexing something.
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You can disable indexing.

sbaechler said:
I can only run Redcine in Administrator mode. And this user control feature is just a joke.
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You can switch off the user control feature.
 
laguun said:
You can disable indexing.


You can switch off the user control feature.
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I did disable both. But it still seems to be indexing something after startup. And I cannot start redcine via the shortcut on the desktop.
 
sbaechler said:
I did disable both. But it still seems to be indexing something after startup. And I cannot start redcine via the shortcut on the desktop.
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sadly cant tell you more - our vista/osx systems (quads with G8800) start vista fast and redcine as user.... must be something different than i would know.
 
karapetkov said:
Does it work with your system?

I'm trying to assemble a decent quadcore system for RedCine.

For start, I'll bet on 4GB DDR2 1066 RAM.

Maybe upgrade that to DDR3 1333, next year.

But I read here that processor power, HDD speed + a decent video card are decisive, not RAM. :detective2:
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I'm not sure about REDCINE - but we get much better performance out of Scratch with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition than XP.
 
sbaechler said:
I did disable both. But it still seems to be indexing something after startup. And I cannot start redcine via the shortcut on the desktop.
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Do you have Windows Defender installed? Try disabling that if you do. Sometimes it runs a check when you start up.
 
I have a 7900 GS, 7200rpm hd's, core 2 duo, 3gb ram, win xp, which lags a little when working with 4k full res footage in RedCine. My partner has a Quadro 4500 (i think it's a 4500), 10k hard drives and dual xeon processors, and he flies right through the footage on the timeline, etc. Another partner of mine uses a Quadro FX1300 and has no issues. On occasion I have issues playing back 720p quicktime movies . . . i'm not happy about that. My partner with the FX 1300 has no issues, so I'm thinking of going the quadro route.
 
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