| | | | Mac Pro Alternatives
by Walter Soyka on Jun 12, 2012 at 5:11:00 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
So much of the recent conversation here has about what Apple isn't doing or what the future may hold; relatively little has been about what other companies are doing and how we can benefit from their efforts in our work today.
If you're disappoint | | | | |
| | | | Re: Advice for Graphics workstation
by Walter Soyka on Jun 6, 2011 at 1:33:13 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I'll quote Todd Kopriva from a previous thread on performance[link]:
Regarding the high end...
In our testing, we see a performance plateau around 8-10 rendering processes. (Things like I/O and RAM bus speed start to emerge as the bottlenecks.) | | | | |
| | | | Re: Can a laptop "workstation" run cs5?
by Walter Soyka on Apr 22, 2011 at 5:52:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
[Joseph W. Bourke] ""can run" and "runs so I can actually get some work done" are often worlds apart."
Agreed!
I've got an 8-core Mac Pro with 32GB of RAM in my office, and an 17" i7 MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM for the road. There is no compari | | | | |
| | | | Faster Rendering on MacBook Pro
by Marcus Warren on Feb 6, 2011 at 11:08:56 pm
in the Media 100 Forum
Is there a way to speed up rendering on a MacBook Pro using a second computer or external rendering setup (like Boxx Technologies renderBOXX)?
I am getting frustrated by the long render times in Media 100 and I am looking for a solution. Yes, I c | | | | |
| | | | Re: Advice on two notebooks for PPro
by Warren Morningstar on Jan 26, 2011 at 6:57:16 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
I'm very happy with the GoBoxx from Boxx Technologies, but this isn't really a laptop. They call it a portable work station, and it can handle some pretty heavy duty editing, After Effects work, etc. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Options for XLH1a
by John Rofrano on May 29, 2010 at 12:34:47 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
#1) do you know of a reliable company I can go to who can put together such a computer system? - When I go to shoot interviews I already have to haul a truck load of gear so I guess a computer wouldn't add that much to the load - it be really cool if | | | | |
| | | | Re: does rendering use the graphic card?
by John Rofrano on Feb 11, 2010 at 3:26:26 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
My question is, when Vegas is rendering, is it using the graphics card, or just the normal processor? In other words, will it help to get a good graphics card in the server? No, Sony Vegas makes no use of the graphics card GPU while rendering. It is, | | | | |
| | | | Re: Pimped Graphics Machine
by Adam Trachtenberg on Jan 20, 2010 at 7:48:39 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Looks pretty good, generally speaking, but the quadro card won't buy you more performance in Cinema vs. a high-end gaming card. I'd put the extra money into extra ram. I'd also specify an i7 processor since there are less desirable Intel cpus with | | | | |
| | | | Re: I give up... heading to Mac
by John Rofrano on Jan 2, 2010 at 5:38:46 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
> ...the bottom line is, "where is the 'reference platform' for Sony Video Vegas on high def or even SD? The fact is that we who use (or want to use) their software have to guess at what works.
Maybe Sony doesn't tell you what hardware to use beca | | | | |
| | | | Computer recommendations
by Joel Servetz on Nov 3, 2009 at 5:36:34 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
I'm using Vegas Pro 9c, no problem with my fairly modest current desktop and laptop computers for most projects. However, I recently completed an assignment, editing internet video news segments for a convention, loads of graphics, cutaways, voiceove | | | | |
| | | | Re: should i REALLY buy a mac??
by Christopher Wright on Dec 12, 2008 at 7:43:23 am
in the Apple OS X Forum
Actually good Windows machines will always have faster processors and better graphic card selections for any rendering, 3d work or processor intensive work. The problem is, you aren't going to find these machines at your local Best Buy. You need to b | | | | |
| | | | News: BOXX
by Cow News Droid on Dec 18, 2007 at 5:11:09 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
(Austin, Texas--December 18, 2007) BOXX Technologies Inc., an innovator in high-performance computing systems for visual effects (VFX) professionals, today announced that the company’s 3DBOXX 8400se has been ranked the fastest rendering workstation | | | | |
| | | | News: BOXX
by Cow News Droid on Nov 12, 2007 at 7:53:29 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
New Workstations Provide Fast Render Preview and Significant Power Savings
(Austin, Texas—November 12, 2007) BOXX Technologies Inc., an innovator in high-performance computing systems for visual effects (VFX) professionals, today released the 3DBO | | | | |
| | | | Re: Is a render farm worth the trouble with CS3?
by AlphaChannel on Aug 19, 2007 at 1:44:33 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Thanks for the responses thus far; you've both been a real help.
Since most of my rendering will occur during business hours, there won't be much benefit to the render farm strategy. I guess I'll look into increasing the RAM (currently I have 2 GB), | | | | |
| | | | Is a render farm worth the trouble with CS3?
by AlphaChannel on Aug 18, 2007 at 1:02:59 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
After searching through all the previous posts I cannot find any help on our particular issue. We have the CS Production Bundle running on a Boxx Technologies PC with 2GB of RAM. Our computers (10 on Windows XP and another 6 on Mac OS 10.4) are conne | | | | |
| | | | News: PNY Technologies
by Cow News Droid on Aug 3, 2007 at 3:53:34 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
NVIDIA® Quadro® by PNY graphics solutions optimize performance of leading graphics applications for animation, on-air graphics, film and scientific visualization
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(PARSIPPANY, NJ - August 3, 2007) PNY Technologies, the supplier and marketer of NV | | | | |
| | | | News: Autodesk at SIGGRAPH 2007
by Cow News Droid on Jul 27, 2007 at 4:44:40 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
(SAN RAFAEL, Calif., July 27, 2007) Autodesk Inc. will be attending SIGGRAPH 2007, an international conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques, in San Diego, from August 5 - 9, 2007.
At the exhibition, Autodesk (Booth | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCP Extreme?
by Christopher Wright on Jun 21, 2006 at 3:51:25 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I agree with David. The whole attraction to FCP was that it was/is the most affordable way to do HD. That is why I jumped ship from Discreet back in the early Cinewave days. By 2008 most of the heavy lifting should be done by the new (2/4/8/16?)core | | | | |
| | | | Boxx?
by Peabody on May 15, 2006 at 5:49:12 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
Anybody had any experience with Boxx Technologies.
Looking at purchasing a system from them. | | | | |
| | | | BOXX Tech Workstation
by mer1958 on Apr 3, 2006 at 11:29:12 pm
in the Matrox Video Systems Forum
just talked to the technical division of BOXX technologies and it seems that there
7400 workstation which is a AMD dual core system has a certified motherboard for
Matrox it is a TYAN S2895 the case has 4 cooling fans in it minus of coarse the power | | | | |
| | | | Will the card work for me?
by Dan Phillips on Dec 13, 2005 at 8:02:06 pm
in the Blackmagic Design Forum
I have two Boxx Computers with the following configuration.
Boxx Technologies 3DBOXX S5i
INCLUDES: Dual XEON DP 3.06GHz, 512k cache, 533MHz FSB
40GB 7200 rpm ATA133 hard drive
2GB PC2100 ECC Reg DDR (2- 1GB DIMMS)
DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW CDRW Combo dri | | | | |
| | | | Re: Recommend me a workstation
by Tom J on Nov 26, 2005 at 9:47:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
As for AE work, any decent system now-a-days would have alot of ram (1.5gig or more) with 10/100/1000 (gigabit network support) and Open GL supported graphics as well as SATA drives. However ATA 7200rpm 133 drives are just fine in AE and 3D. For good | | | | |
| | | | News: BOXX joins Alias in
by Cow News Droid on Nov 21, 2005 at 4:50:09 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
3DBOXX workstations power new Alias design tools
(Austin, TX — November 18, 2005) BOXX Technologies, Inc., the leading supplier of workstations designed to meet the special computing requirements of visual effects professionals, will co-sponsor a | | | | |
| | | | Re: Help Picking New Computer
by Aharon Rabinowitz on Oct 10, 2005 at 11:29:04 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I wenbt with Boxx Technologies and have been extremely satisified with them. We teach on Boxx computers at Pratt, used them at Nickelodeon Digital when I was there, and I use one as my primary computer now that I work mostly from home.
You can defin | | | | |
| | | | Re: Help Buying New Computer
by Del Holford on Oct 10, 2005 at 4:42:01 pm
in the Adobe Photoshop Forum
Boxx Technologies makes a PC based system they certify and support. You can chose from various options depending on your wallet size. It would do great. Also the Mac G5 dual 2.7Ghz would be great. Check the websites or google for more info.
Del | | | | |
| | | | Mixed OS environment question
by Aaron Grisham on Sep 9, 2005 at 12:15:16 am
in the Apple Xsan Forum
Here is my system.
1 Boxx technologies dual opteron 250 with 4 gb of RAM with qlogic hba card
12 Boxx technologies dual opteron 250 render nodes with 2 gb ram each and qlogic hba card.
1 1.5 tb Apple XServe Raid
1 Brocade 16 port Fiberswitch
1 | | | | |
| | | | Re: Start up NLE Suite
by Brant Mills on Aug 18, 2005 at 6:42:22 am
in the Audio Professionals Forum
There is no standard cut-and-dried way or "proper" way to go about this. I've set up a couple of studios for other people in addition to my own and the best advice I could offer would be to decide which nle software you want first and on which system | | | | |
| | | | Re: Which workstation?
by Ethan on Jul 15, 2005 at 9:11:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I just bought a new workstation BOXX technologies, and its really nice, here are the specs:
Dual Opteron Model 275 (2x dual core processors)
8GB DDR400 ECC (8 DIMMS)
2x ATI FireGL V5000
36GB 10,000rpm Serial ATA 8MB Cache System Drive + 120GB 7,200r | | | | |
| | | | BOXX systems?
by Wil Gonzalez on Jun 23, 2005 at 10:08:46 pm
in the Autodesk Combustion Forum
I'm in the market for a new system and was considering looking at BOXX technologies.
Anyone out there have real world experience with their systems running combustion, max? | | | | |
| | | | News: BOXX Offers New Intel
by Cow News Droid on May 26, 2005 at 2:53:41 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
Austin, TX — BOXX Technologies, Inc., the leading workstation company offering systems that are as powerful as they are easy to integrate, announces today it is offering the Intel® Pentium® D dual-core processor in its new 4400 series of workstat | | | | |
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