new System set-up

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new System set-up

Posted by Kenyon Blower on September 17, 2008 at 3:30 am

I am building 2 new systems. Cost is not as much a factor as speed and reliability. I am looking at a 3.2Ghz quad core with 2mb memory. I was going to upgrade to 16gb (8 x 2gb) memory through Other World Computing. Apple memory is just stupid expensive. Is there an advantage to using the 4gb modules instead?

I have 24TB Fibre Channel raid. Is there any reason to buy the quad channel 4GB Fibre channel cards vs the dual channel?

One last thing, any reason to upgrade the graphics card over the standard?

The last 2 systems I purchased, I had Pro-Max spec them out. This time I am doing it myself. These systems will be cutting network shows with an overnight deadline. They will also have a Kona 3 card. Outputing to D-5 and DVCPRO-HD

Thanks
Kenyon

Kenyon Blower
Vide-Post / San Diego
Dual 2.5 G5
3 Gig Ram
Medea 2TB Fibre Raid
Medea 640 gig SCSI
FCP 5.1
KONA LH

Phillip Gibb replied 17 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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Sean Oneil
September 17, 2008 at 5:47 am

[Kenyon Blower] “Is there an advantage to using the 4gb modules instead”

The only advantage is you have more open slots, thus the opportunity to add more later.

[Kenyon Blower] “I have 24TB Fibre Channel raid. Is there any reason to buy the quad channel 4GB Fibre channel cards vs the dual channel?”

I guess it could give you redundancy. I don’t know if OSX and/or your equipment supports this. As far as extra speed, then no it won’t help you. Your PCIe slot will be maxed out before you exceed that of a dual-4gb fibre. Unless you set it to 16 lanes – which you can’t because you’ll be using lanes for the graphics card and the Kona.

Just my 2 cents: I would go through a dealer. Don’t get me wrong, I’m the king of DIY. I’ve actually built a fibre storage server from scratch using Opensolaris. But given your situation you might want to cover your ass. If and when something goes wrong you’ll have someone to call who is obliged to get you back up and running. If you want to recover the extra costs, consider 8gb of RAM instead of 16.

Sean
Phillip Gibb
September 17, 2008 at 6:38 am

check this article out at Digital Films (a blog by Oliver Peters)

https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/edit-suite-design-part-ii/

He has Excel spreadsheets and support information that are quite interesting.
Very comprehensive. Worth a sqizz.

Phill

https://synapticlight.wordpress.com
MacBookPro 2.5GHz, 4 GB RAM
Final Cut Studio 2
Shake 4.1
Photoshop CS2

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