720gb of raw internal power!!!!!!!!!

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

What?

No Raptor for main drive?

No crossfire or SLI for video?

if I played games I would probably care more about the video

as for Raptor, I am moving all hard drives to Seagate....I have had 5 western digitals fail, including a Raptor....they SUCK for dump drives

this one seagate I have has a 5 year warranty on it with UNLIMITED tech support forever, the WD had a 30 day parts and labor and 1 year tech support..LOL

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Jace

if I played games I would probably care more about the video

as for Raptor, I am moving all hard drives to Seagate....I have had 5 western digitals fail, including a Raptor....they SUCK for dump drives

this one seagate I have has a 5 year warranty on it with UNLIMITED tech support forever, the WD had a 30 day parts and labor and 1 year tech support..LOL

Hard drives are a commodity at this point. I do prefer raptor for my main drive on any high performance machine. Fast as hell, and I've never had a problem. Beyond that, I dont care.

For video, I'm hoping you mean X1600 and not X600. X1K family will vet ATI's avivo or whatever they call it. I LOVE how fast that thing can render and convert videos.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Hard drives are a commodity at this point. I do prefer raptor for my main drive on any high performance machine. Fast as hell, and I've never had a problem. Beyond that, I dont care.

For video, I'm hoping you mean X1600 and not X600. X1K family will vet ATI's avivo or whatever they call it. I LOVE how fast that thing can render and convert videos.

actually, I meant the x600 http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonx600/specs.html I didn't upgrade that just cause mainly the graphics card doesn't play much part in how fast a video is rendered or encoded, processor in your main key there

if I was doing a lot of regular or 3d transitions, the video card might play some part in it, but since I am just encoding it doesn't help very much

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Jace

actually, I meant the x600 http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonx600/specs.html I didn't upgrade that just cause mainly the graphics card doesn't play much part in how fast a video is rendered or encoded, processor in your main key there

if I was doing a lot of regular or 3d transitions, the video card might play some part in it, but since I am just encoding it doesn't help very much

Bzzzzzzttt... you're wrong here. Normally, you're right the impact of video card is minimal on rendering, but that's the beauty of Avivo. It makes your rendering SMOKE!

I haven't benched it lately on new hardware, but when we got our first ones last year for our video rendering machines, we ONLY replaced the video cards. We dropped in Sapphire X1800's and first video I did out of the gate took 87 minutes to render without the X1800. After installing it, exact same video rendered in 18 minutes.

http://www.chip.de/artikel/c1_artikel_17670022.html


And yes, it also kicks major ass for games.

And if you want more speed....drop two of 'em in and use Cross Fire.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Bzzzzzzttt... you're wrong here. Normally, you're right the impact of video card is minimal on rendering, but that's the beauty of Avivo. It makes your rendering SMOKE!

I haven't benched it lately on new hardware, but when we got our first ones last year for our video rendering machines, we ONLY replaced the video cards. We dropped in Sapphire X1800's and first video I did out of the gate took 87 minutes to render without the X1800. After installing it, exact same video rendered in 18 minutes.

http://www.chip.de/artikel/c1_artikel_17670022.html


And yes, it also kicks major ass for games.

And if you want more speed....drop two of 'em in and use Cross Fire.

what about for encoding only? cause that is really all I do.....encoding and watermarking

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Jace

what about for encoding only? cause that is really all I do.....encoding and watermarking

Yup, long as you're not using software that does something funky to bypass the drivers in favor of it's own.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Yup, long as you're not using software that does something funky to bypass the drivers in favor of it's own.

nah man, cleanerxl is actually one of the ONLY programs that fully utilizes the dual core I have, sorenson doesn't make full use and videocharge doesn't even touch the second core

I will have to check into it then, for shizzle, even though I am doing pretty well right now, anything to speed it up more is a welcome addition

I just never really cared that much cause I don;t game, but it looks like video cards are taking a turn for the better for us video guys

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Hard drives are a commodity at this point. I do prefer raptor for my main drive on any high performance machine. Fast as hell, and I've never had a problem. Beyond that, I dont care.

man, I have a stack of western digitals sitting next to me, they make nice paper weights these days

I have to mention though, I am encoding video and working the drive 24/7, approx 70 videos a month right now

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by Jace

man, I have a stack of western digitals sitting next to me, they make nice paper weights these days

I have to mention though, I am encoding video and working the drive 24/7, approx 70 videos a month right now

Hey man, can u build a mini server that will run just live steam digital cams to different hard drives at once with multiple programs for streaming live to the internet, but still be able to run same program to a regular pc maintaining the same log-in code thru some sort of network? and how much does something like this will cost?


oh ya, and done with multiple ip addies, no sharing them

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

Hey man, can u build a mini server that will run just live steam digital cams to different hard drives at once with multiple programs for streaming live to the internet, but still be able to run same program to a regular pc maintaining the same log-in code thru some sort of network? and how much does something like this will cost?


oh ya, and done with multiple ip addies, no sharing them

i don't really do that kind of stuff...

[softball]

Yawn. Does it burn rubber and go from zero to sixty in under five seconds?

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Yawn. Does it burn rubber and go from zero to sixty in under five seconds?

Time is money!

Speed saves time, therefore speed saves money.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Yawn. Does it burn rubber and go from zero to sixty in under five seconds?

no, but my 1991 isuzu rodeo has bald tires so they look like they are burned and goes from 0 to 60 in 24.5 seconds