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[Nick Mcmahon]

[Kell Hymer] “Let us know what they tell ya…..”

For sure… Actually having now spent 24 hrs on the Eurocom site running thru the massive choice of kit they offer and scouring the net for any reviews I can find, I think the P7 is the one I’d like to configure as it has the slightly larger 17.3″ panel although a 4K screen is a choice with the 15.6″ P5…. certainly loads of choice and that really stands out over and above the other laptop custom builders I’ve seen so far. Of course on the downside for me would be the extra cost of getting a rig from the States to the UK, but it’s not so much as to put me off.

The first reply I managed to get within 15 minutes of my original email (tick) confirmed that they will have the SM971 available for this laptop at the end of March AND are about to add the R9 M290X to the list of GPU choices in this model. In my experience, companies keep people interested by providing ‘unrealistic release dates’, but end of March is only weeks away, so lets see what happens.

I’ll have the opportunity over the next couple of weeks to do more research on the company themselves and see what comes up while I’m waiting for that date to arrive and one thing I want to establish is whether the current P7 model can be reconfigured to allow a PCI-e 3.0 interface as this is how the 2Gbps speed of the new SM971 is attained.

PCI-e 2.0 still works but not full throttle and I’d want it all…. 🙂

Kell… I see yr rig has the R9 290X… did you build the rig to use with Vegas …?

Nick… BASE1268

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[Kell Hymer]

[Nick McMahon] “Kell… I see yr rig has the R9 290X… did you build the rig to use with Vegas …?”

I started building it for video editing when I was using Pinnacle Studio before they became Avid. I hear great things about the pro-level Avid software. However, the consumer version of Pinnacle was not my favorite program on the planet to put it nicely… I soon came across Sony Vegas Movie Studio and liked it. I was crazy lucky and won 2 separate sweepstakes in which I won Sony Vegas Pro and the full suite of NewBlueFX products.

With pro-level stuff I wanted a good machine to run it. Here iswhat I have put together:

*NZXT Phantom Case with 11 fans. (not including those on the GPU. I am slightly obsessed with keeping my PC as cool as possible w/o messing with custom water cooled solutions)
*ASUS P9X79 Deluxe
*i7 4930K (recently upgraded from i7 3820)
*Corsair H80i liquid CPU cooler (hacked with ducts and much more powerful, albeit louder, fans for significant cooling boost)
*32GB RAM
*1000 watt Raidmax PSU
* XFX R9-290X with 8GB RAM & AMD Radeon HD 5450 (previously used NVIDIA’s GTX460, Quadro 2000, Quadro 4000)
* 250GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD boot drive with backup 250GB notebook HDD
* 120GB Samsung 840 Pro
* 480GB OCZ Revo PCI SSD
* 3TB media storage HDD with 60GB Mushkin SSD used as a cache. Additional backup 3TB drive
* 1TB storage and archiving drive with another backup 1TB drive.
* Blue Ray writer
* DVD/Lightscribe drive

Believe it or not, but this was the first PC I have ever built. I spent about 6 months researching the hardware and determined that, at the time, this was the best set up and I still think it is now that I have upgraded processors. The X99 boards look appealing but I do not think they have enough improvements to justify getting one. Maybe the next round of extreme chipsets from Intel will have more PCI-e lanes and maybe even OpenCL 2.0 support for shared memory in the firmware.

The Quadro cards were nearly usless. The GTX 460 performed better but was highly unstable in Vegas. The R9-290X has provided more of a boost than adding 2 more CPU cores with the processor upgrade! This card is awesome and performs spectacularly in Vegas previews (I don’t care about render times). The only problem is that I am now on my 3rd card since December. The first one displayed artifacts on the screen and the next one died after 2 weeks. I just got the new one today and am testing it now. No one else online have reported problems like this so I think I just got unlucky with a couple of lemons.

The crazy thing is that I do not do video editing for a profession. I built this rig as a hobby, primarily for home videos of my family 🙂

Current System: Intel i7 4930K OC’d to 4.6 GHz| Asus P9X79 Deluxe | 32GB RAM | AMD R9-290X w/8GB RAM | OCZ Revo 480 GB PCI Express SSD | Windows 7 64 bit | Vegas Pro 12 (64)