Stephen Mann
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Anyone want to take bets on who will be the first to whine about 10D?
Steve Mann
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A “gamer” PSU probably has more “rails”. Each rail (in PSU speak) is separate from others. Originally, and especially on the cheap supplies, there was only one +12V rail and one +5v rail. The two +12V pins were simply tied together, and the same for the five +5V pins. just all tied together on the same regulator and filtering circuit. So, if a power-hungry device pulls the +5V line down a bit, everything using the +5V line is affected. With multiple rails, each rail is a separate transformer secondary, separate regulator and separate filters. Noise or excessive load on one generally can’t affect the other rails.
Short answer, anything is better than what you have now.
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The denoiser has to examine every pixel on every frame then then the frame has to be rendered. Your long time rendering/encoding does not surprise me. Don’t apply the FX to the whole project if you don’t need to. The event opacity also sometimes trips people up if they accidentally drop the opacity to 99% with an errant mouse movement. You won’t see it but a few minutes of video will take hours to render.
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“Isn’t it amazing that they would sell a new computer with such an underspecified power supply?”
No surprise at all. Most PC manufacturers build their box with the cheapest parts that will survive to the end of the warranty. If they save a dollar on the PSU, and sell a million units, that’s a million dollars in profits. It worked when they shipped it. If all you did was browse the web and send a few e-mails, you would never have a problem. Add any new hardware and do something processor-intensive, like video editing or Prime95 and you can easily overwhelm the power supply.
To be honest, I didn’t think anyone was still making PSU’s that underpowered, so until you said that it crashed immediately, not over time, the PSU wasn’t even on the radar.
Another benefit to the 650-W or higher PSU is that your PC will run cooler! Pulling 350-Watts out of a 300-Watt PSU will literally cook it, and heat your PC. Pull 350-Watts from a 650-Watt PSU and it’s just barely cruising. Plus you have headroom for adding a second display adapter, an eSATA card, etc.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Anthony, Kevin said that it crashes immediately. Heat problems won’t crash that fast. (Assuming that the PC is cold at startup.)
Kevin – a 313Watt PSU is incredibly underpowered. I am surprised that the PC worked out of the box. 300-Watt PSU’s are what we used on Pentium computers. I am really leaning toward this being your problem. Go to your local computer mart and buy a 650-Watt PSU. Take the old one to make sure the motherboard connectors are the same.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Actually, not serious at all. It makes the diagnostic even easier. So, it’s not Vegas or the media.
So, back to my questions. Have you added hardware to the PC since purchase? What is the make and model of PC and what size power-supply does it have?
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“No warnings or anything, but just a complete shutdown of the computer.”
A complete shutdown is almost always a heat issue. But if it’s shutting down right away, you could be overloading the PSU. Have you added any hardware to the PC since you bought it? I don’t recall if you stated which PC you are using, but some low-cost PC builders will give you a power supply just capable for the shipped configuration. For example, if your PS, as configured, needs 345-watts, you will get a 350-watt power supply instead of a 400 or 500-watt PSU. When you add a dual-head display adapter and a few hard-drives, then you could easily push it beyond the “as-shipped” power requirements. Rendering is processor-intensive, so if your power supply is “on the edge”, like a 350-Watt PSU trying to supply 400-Watts, for example, you could be tripping safety circuits in the PSU.
Have you run prime95? It’s a free utility to calculate prime numbers, but it torture tests your CPU and memory. Google it, download it, run it for a couple of hours, then get back to us. While you do that, also look for a temperature monitor program (I use CoreTemp). They’re free. while you are running prime95 watch the CPU temperature.
Steve Mann
Steve Mann
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If I am reading you correctly, you have “Ripple” turned on.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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There has to be a VIDEO_TS folder or no player will handle the DVD.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com