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Understanding FCPX under the hood.
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[Walter Soyka] “I hope there will be a nice sizzle core for you!”
I hope it’s snazzy.
A snazzle core.
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[Chris Harlan] “The things that you keep linking to don’t seem at all intimidating compared to what it used to be like.”
It’s not getting in and doing the work. That part is fairly easy.
It’s finding out the motherboard is unstable after you’ve spent the money and built it, and if you’ve built more than one, then you can multiply by the number of machines you’ve built.
I think the 3D VFX guy is a perfect example, he said “they don’t have all the quirks worked out”.
Is this really the future we are setting up here?
4 out of 5 stars for this:
“Why 4 stars and not 5? Because the SR-X we got direct from EVGA seems to not have all of it quirks worked out yet. It works well, but only for about 3 to 4 days straight before we starting getting errors that eventually lead to crashing – HDD/SDD related. Could be unrelated to the Mobo, but doubtful.”
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[Jeremy Garchow] “A snazzle core.”
I’d buy a snazzle core.
My son is into Dr. Seuss recently — I think he’d approve.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka] “In that case, building your own and just swapping stuff out gets even harder, and any notion of even limited support flies out the window.”
Completely. It will be even harder.
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If I bought a piece of hardware that crashed after 3 or 4 days of uptime, I don’t think I’d be so kind as to rate it 4 of 5 stars.
That’d be like the GTX285 in had in my Mac Pro for Resolve for a while in 2010. That combo was so kernel panic-y that I had to buy an iBoot (remote power switch) to reboot the sucker from the road when I couldn’t remote into it. Zero stars!
Also an interesting anecdotal data point about the Legendary stability of Macs.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It really boils down to being able to swap the GPU, and that’s about it.”
GPU and PCIe (x8 and x16) slots. Which is about 50% of the whole picture. Editing Performance = CPU+GPU+PCIe+Memory. 2 out of the 4 factors are much more limited on an Imac.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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Again, so? Don’t go this route. Bleeding knuckles are not for you. Some people like ’em. I really do not get what you are on about. This is clearly not a world that you want to be a part of, and there is no reason that you should. This is hobbyist stuff. Years ago, I always went for the bleeding knuckles stuff. I don’t anymore. I paid my dues. I tend to hang back and ride a wave or two behind. I now tend to let others find the trash, and profit from the intrepid gung-ho-edness of guys like the one whose post you shared. If you are actually thinking about DIYing something, perhaps you should do the same.
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[Walter Soyka] “Also an interesting anecdotal data point about the Legendary stability of Macs.”
or the legendary crapness of Nvidia drivers for Mac
Steve Connor
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[Chris Harlan] “I think its a matter of generational perspective. When I was first getting into computers, they didn’t come with sound cards; you bought them after-market and installed them yourself. There was no USB; you had to physically install almost any device and assign them IRQ spots, which you had to continually manage. I used to keep a chart of IRQ usage on the side of my computer. There was no plug-and-play. You want to add a scanner or a MODEM? Pop the hood. Find a slot, and when that slot doesn’t work, spend your day reordering the existing cards, and try to find the right balance of IRQs and AMAs.”
That brings back some (un) happy memories. Last system I built myself was for a Matrox Digisuite DTV card and the sense of achievement when it finally worked was great, it had a massive 36GB SCSI RAID drive that still lives in my garage somewhere.
If I needed the extra horsepower I wouldn’t be averse to doing the same thing again.
Steve Connor
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[Walter Soyka] “That’d be like the GTX285 in had in my Mac Pro for Resolve f”
FWIW, the 285 I have in my 2008 MacPro has always performed well. Why mine and not yours? Some build or software reason on the Mac or the version of the 285 or something having to do with Resolve, perhaps. Or the driver versions. Or… Or… As you so correctly point out, component flakiness is not limited by OSs or to DIY PCs.
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