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NEWBIE: I just bought a graphics machine for freelance work.
I posted this to 2 other forums.
Before I discovered forums like this and things like Quadro and workstations and RAID 5 I bought what I thought was going to be an excellent graphics machine. Turns out that my Dell XPS 710 h2c is an excellent gaming machine and I just received it yesterday.
So I made a mistake and spent 7000 on a good machine (that was my absolute budget) but now I need help trying to figure out how to optimize it for NLE, aftereffects and 3D graphics work.
Background: I work on adrenaline media composers at work but this is my machine for doing some freelance stuff on the side.
Now my main questions are:
is there any way to split the two 500 gig drives in a RAID 0 configuration and make one my boot drive and the other my content drive (I just learned about this stuff yesterday)
Are my dual GeForce 8800GTX video cards that much slower than a Quadro card for graphics editing?
Did I back myself into a corner with my current set up?
Any suggestions for optimizing the system before I start putting software on it.
This is what I bought:
I bought a Dell XPS 710 h2c:
Intel Core2 Extreme processor QX6700 (3.20GHz,Overclocked)
(2) 20 inch wide screen monitors
Windows XP media
4GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
Dual 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX
Serial ATA2 RAID 0 With Dual 500GB Hard Drives
Dell 13 in 1 Media Card Reader
Creative Labs X-Fi PCI Sound Card
Logitech Z-5450 Digital 5.1 Speaker System
Ageia PhysX Processor
water cooling system
3 year warranty (including accident protection)Thanks for the help
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If you’re intent on doing serious Avid editing AND building/configuring your machine, I’d start by browsing Avid’s website and finding their computer specifications. I would consider selling this box to the highest bidder and buying a qualified system. Unless you’re willing to read a lot and learn a lot quickly, you may be happier overall.
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