New PC specs

[Alex Jusay]

nice specs…consider adding an uninterrupted power supply and a RAID. are you going to use XP PRO 64 bit? i heard a lot of horroble stories about 64bit window and video editing…

[Blast1]

[cadge31] “Hard Drive – Seagate Barracuda ST3808110AS 80GB SATA”

One Hard Drive? One drive for Apps, one drive for Conformed audio, preview files, scratch disks, misc clips, one drive or array for video source files.

[Aaron Cadieux]

I plan using my external drives for the editing.

[Redgum]

Complete waste of time and money if you use external drives or no Raid. Stick with what you have.
Also, that particular SLI board will give you grief with a single Quadro card.

Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia

[Norman Lafranchi]

I’ve used that MB with a single NVidia 7800 GT card, with no problems. What problems are you experiencing with a Quadro board? Which Quadro Board?

[Norman Lafranchi]

Upgrade your hard drive and power supply, unless your budget is limited. 250 GB SATA is less than $100, and a small bump in price will get you an Antec 540W power supply. Also, if possible, get these components integrated by the Vendor. They’ll usually do it for less than $50.

I also wonder if you’d do better getting an NVidia 7900GTX card instead of the professional series Quadro. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the 7900 has better performance even though it’s a gaming card.

[Aaron Cadieux]

A lot of my choices are based on Adobe’s recommendations on their web site. I chose the Quadra since they fully support it. But suggestions are welcomed. Either way, I think my new machine will rock.

[Redgum]

Hi Norman, maybe I was a little harsh but I integrate systems here in OZ. The Quadro FX540 works great but the SLI setup on that board seems to revert to 8 pipes insted of 16 with the Quadro card. The sister Asus board with the 975 chipset is cheaper and much faster but no SLI (and SLI is a compromise at this point in time even for gamers). Dual native Raids would be much better for a video editor. Hate seeing people get ripped off by hype that has no practical use in editing.

Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia

[Gene Colburn — email address bounces notices]

Believe me your system won’t rock. I have built Premiere Pro systems with the A8N, A8NE, A8NSLI, and A8NSLI32 deluxe. The Nvidia chipset in these products does not lend itself to our needs. Without getting overly technical, the chipset does not share resources with anything the way you need. It is a hot gamer board and thats all. A motherboard that will run a hot graphics cared. If you need to install any other peripherials such as a Decklink, Aja Kona, or Matrox Axio LE etc, you will be waisting both time and money. Norman gave good advice in a previous post. Also the Tyan thunder K8WE would be much better choice if you are partial to AMD. It will run anything you throw at it. PS we did manage to get an A8NSLI32 to run a BM multibridge extreme, but at sacrifice to the SATA controller, and any other pci peripherial installed. None of the other boards would even do that.

Regards
GC
Systems integrator
Station 3 Media

[Norman Lafranchi]

We also have the K8WE board, which does rock, but of course adds considerable cost with it’s own price as well as the price of the Opteron chips required for it.

I’m curious as to which problems you had with the Asus A8NSLI32, and how those manifested themselves. We have the same MoBo running decklink extreme (non-HD), and have had no problems. We also use an NVidia 7800GT card. Perhaps we are running slower than we think and don’t even know it!