Alex Gerulaitis
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It’s a cool case, I like it. Definitely an overkill for your setup. You don’t need full size motherboard support; six 5.25″ drive bays and all that cooling.
Look for midtower cases supporting 4-5 HD bays, 2-3 5.25″ bays. It has to properly support full-length graphics cards of course – not too many mid-tower cases do that. E.g. 912 doesn’t. I personally prefer slightly less of a gaming rig feel, but that’s a purely personal choice.
If I run across something I like (besides HP Z800), I’ll post it here.
Alex (DV411)
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You’re right, GPU acceleration won’t work on this card – but Premiere Pro should, in general. The green rectangle, most likely, is a graphic card or a system issue – see if changing the graphics card solves it.
Alex (DV411)
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[Ted Strickler] “Hacking scares me but I’ve read where it is a simple hack.”
Me too – and you’re right, it’s very simple.
You know what your case is going to be? Monitor(s)?
Alex (DV411)
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[Alex Geroulaitis] “an external 2-3TB drive for backup”
Does anyone know of a decent USB 3.0 one (7200rpm)? Don’t think G-Tech makes them yet; WD and Seagate mostly uses “green” drives that are 20% slower (I think).
Alex (DV411)
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[Ted Strickler] “Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive $94.”
Perfect; add two or three 2TB Black Caviars in RAID0; an external 2-3TB drive for backup, and you are done with the foundation of your system. Next steps – the right tower and decent monitor(s).
Alex (DV411)
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[Ted Strickler] “CORSAIR DOMINATOR 12GB (6 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory”
See if 3x4GB is not too much more money: this will give you room to upgrade to more memory in the future.
[Ted Strickler] “PNY VCQ4000-PB Quadro 4000 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Video Card $779.99 “
While it’s a great card, chances are a GTX 470 (or better yet, a GTX 570 or 580 if you don’t mind some light hacking to enable GPU acceleration in CS5) is a better value: cheaper, more powerful for CS5 purposes.
Alex (DV411)
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[Ted Strickler] “Does a RAID-0 system require a total of 3 hard drives in which one would be for Windows 7 as a system drive and the other two would make up the RAID-0?”
It doesn’t require it – but it is a recommended configuration for an editing system.
Alex (DV411)
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[Ted Strickler] “I took my list to a computer shop to see about him building it for me. He suggested a RAID-0 but he also said to put Windows on it instead of on a separate system hard drive.”
Typical gamer rigs are usually set up like that. Editing systems – like you said: boot/OS drive is separate from the media volume.
Alex (DV411)
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Lindsay,
Kudos on trying to make the most use of existing hardware.
I’ve never heard of anyone using Avid I/O hardware (like BOBs and cards) on non-Avid software. So I am not sure you’ll be able to use Nitris DX with Adobe apps.
Check out BlackMagic Intensity Pro ($200), Decklink Studio ($700), Multibridge Eclipse ($2400).
Decklink Studio seems like the easiest and more affordable capture device for PVW2800 (component video, XLR audio).
Alex (DV411)