Stephen Cordes
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Many thanks for all your replies. It has helped me to make up my mind which is to build my own. In terms of the smaller 2.5″ drive which doesn’t require a power source, where would it get it’s power from? Would it be the esata cable?
Thanks and sorry to sounds dumb!
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Many thanks for your reply. Is it better to buy one already made like a mybook or a seagate or similar or best to buy a standard internal drive and an enclosure or dock. I’m thinking performance terms here and will only be using esata connection.
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I should also point out that I currently have a 500gb drive split into 2 partitions with the first partition for OS (win 7 64 bit) and programms (cs5 master) and the second partition for bootable backup and files/scratch
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At the end of the day it comes down to what you can afford and everyone on here will tell you to buy the best you can afford first time which is certainly the advice I got when first posting. Oh and make sure your motherboard has plenty of RAM slots you are so going to need it. You want a decent processor and definitely a 64 bit operating system so that in the meantime before CS5 comes out you can at least use 4gb per core.
I do a lot of on the move work and my power horse of a laptop with 64 bit processor, 4gb ram (upgraded to 8) and a relatively decent dual core processor does me fine and only cost me £650 and with the added bonus of a firewire port I invested in a fast external hard-drive I can take with me to speed up access times. It’s nothing like my desktop indoors but better than most home users have, if you get my drift.
In the meantime, if you don’t mind waiting while you do a bit of render work, pre-render out footage, use proxies and pre-render ram intensive effects. It will be time consuming but you will instantly see benefits.
These guys on here are great and got me where I am today with the general set-up with equipment and workflow techniques.
Dave – sorry about the cold age typing, the cons of doing it on a phone!
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Even doing all those things above your commie is not really cut out for after effects. Gotta be time for an upgrade. The moment you start doing anything more than the most basic of compositing and I’m talking really basic you computer will just shut up shop.
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Perfect thankyou very much.
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I quote from the subpage of the link above. The offici adobe help Manual
“CPUs To Leave For Other Applications Set this value to a number other than 0 to prevent After Effects from using all of the CPUs (processor cores) in your computer system. For example, if you have a computer with 8 CPUs, setting this value to 2 leaves 6 CPUs for After Effects.”
so for me only having two cores I couldn’t set 3gb per core as it would fire up both cores?
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Thanks fir your answers and sorry to keep posting. But the guide you showed me said I should leave a core for the operating system and not set that value to 0 (ie never fire up all your cores). . Could I use one core with 7 gb of ram?
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Sorry that should have been I don’t have four cores. Only two
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I don’t have three processor cores. I only have two.