Andrew M.
Well-known member
Finally I have found the portable PC system that is rock solid stable.
Looks like REDCINE and SCRATCH likes the Quadro and only Quadro on PC.
We are mostly Dell shop and I tested most of them.
We even got latest NVIDIA 8800 and still we had problems, you know blue screens black screens and inability to process multiple clips for more than 4 minutes unless you are lucky.
Well last week we got Dell Precision M6300 2.8GHz dual core with NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M. I didn’t pay attention to it since it came with MS Windows Vista 64 bit and no RAID 0 in it.
Since I knew that REDCINE and SCRATCH likes Quadro I gave it a try and what a pleasant surprise.
Not only Vista 64 does recognize automatically 32 bit apps but all was working without even single crash or hiccup. 8GB main memory was not recognized but it uses full 4GB since the trimming goes from beyond and above the 4GB limit.
It is not as fast as Dell XPS that has RAID 0 and NVIDIA 8800 but still does 4K rendering at 1 to 1.5 sec per frame depending from complexity.
I rendered one and half hour multiple clips from recent Pope Benedict XVI visit in Washington DC, produced QT H.264, DPX and TIF all works!!
I even tested new version of SCRATCH all without even single screw up frame.
BTW I used latest QT 7.4.5 and NVIDIA driver ver. 167.55
Here are some tests shots I did nearby there in DC at full blast of sun.
2K tiff file and 2K QT
Ctrl+right click to download.
http://www.redrelay.net/owners/0906/tiff/andrew2k.tif
http://www.redrelay.net/owners/0906/films/andrew2k.mov
Andrew
Looks like REDCINE and SCRATCH likes the Quadro and only Quadro on PC.
We are mostly Dell shop and I tested most of them.
We even got latest NVIDIA 8800 and still we had problems, you know blue screens black screens and inability to process multiple clips for more than 4 minutes unless you are lucky.
Well last week we got Dell Precision M6300 2.8GHz dual core with NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M. I didn’t pay attention to it since it came with MS Windows Vista 64 bit and no RAID 0 in it.
Since I knew that REDCINE and SCRATCH likes Quadro I gave it a try and what a pleasant surprise.
Not only Vista 64 does recognize automatically 32 bit apps but all was working without even single crash or hiccup. 8GB main memory was not recognized but it uses full 4GB since the trimming goes from beyond and above the 4GB limit.
It is not as fast as Dell XPS that has RAID 0 and NVIDIA 8800 but still does 4K rendering at 1 to 1.5 sec per frame depending from complexity.
I rendered one and half hour multiple clips from recent Pope Benedict XVI visit in Washington DC, produced QT H.264, DPX and TIF all works!!
I even tested new version of SCRATCH all without even single screw up frame.
BTW I used latest QT 7.4.5 and NVIDIA driver ver. 167.55
Here are some tests shots I did nearby there in DC at full blast of sun.
2K tiff file and 2K QT
Ctrl+right click to download.
http://www.redrelay.net/owners/0906/tiff/andrew2k.tif
http://www.redrelay.net/owners/0906/films/andrew2k.mov
Andrew