[Nathaniel Ryan]

“it has a 2.93 GHz dual quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor”
As in 2x quad core Xeon’s ? which motherboard do these use?

As for cs5, i currently own production premium cs2, im not sure if there will be a respectable upsell to cs5 when it comes out, maybe better to upgrade now to cs4 then to cs5 later ?

Cheers

Nathaniel Ryan
Grahpic Artist/Composer

[Nathaniel Ryan]

Have som enew specs im considering, let me know what you guys think, still a few minor technical issues left before im confident to go ahead with the build, anyways here it is:

Swiftech Quiet Power P180, enough realestate/ air etc.?

1000W-1250W power supply

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5

INTEL i7-950 Quad CORE PROCESSOR 8MCache 3.06GHz

HP Nvidia Quadro FX 3800/ 4800?? ive heard a lot of “post guys” and “PC integrators”: saying that the GeForce GTX 295 is powerfull enough to handle edting in uncompressed hd ?? any thoughts?

Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro, contemplating the HD Extreme?

Kingston 12G DDR3 ram

Internal: 2x Hitachi 500GB 7200rpm HDD – SATA2
1- os, progs/ 2- plugs, samples(audio),

Internal: 2x Hitachi 500GB 7200rpm HDD – SATA2 Raid0
capture, cache etc.

Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit: home, pro etc.? is there a particular one suited to premiere etc.??

Adobe prod prem cs4, 3d studio max 8, Z brush 3, cubase 5, fruity loops prod edition,

Samsung SyncMaster 275T, 42″ Full HD Plasma TV VIERA

I absolutley cant afford a “proper” colour correction monitor, does this counter the BM HD extreme and is the full hd plasma a worthy edition (the idea being that it has deeper colour depth than lcds in its price range)?

Well thats the idea anyways, any thoughts would be great!

Thanks all

Nathaniel Ryan
Graphic Artist/ Composer

[Nathaniel Ryan]

Thanks for the advice Jeff!,

Ofcourse my budget will start hitting a wall but i should be able to manage the faster processor/ board and am set on the quadro FX4800, might be pushing it with the capture card but will def look into it as it sounds more practical than the intensity,,

Yes when i said “real time” i ment “live” editing as in no render (uncompressed hd24), it sounds like this is pushing it even for the higher end systems as per recent posts/ comments no?

however this will presumably depend on res and frame rate: when i said full hd i ment uncompressed 1920×1080/ 24fps and up but at the end of the day i will edit and composite at the highest res the system will handle comfortably and if that is less than “full hd” then so be it, i really dont want to push it and end up sitting there for hours/days on end waiting for things to happen! so i guess the question is will this system as per
(i7 quad 2.9/ 12g ram/ FX4800/ 4x 1T raid +intensity/matrox) handle or not, if its going to start getting slugish or worse i might be over powering and wasting money when i can build something specifically for a lower res/ frame rate, as i said i’d much prefer a bit of speed and ease over the highest res/ frame rate etc.

Thanks again

Nathaniel Ryan
Graphic Artist/ Composer