Re: A new PC config by Dean DeCarlo on Jun 29, 2009 at 8:51:49 pm
Oh, I always go for the home built model. Less money and you can pick each component individually. That looks like a killer rig. You know that Combustion won't take advantage of that 12gb of memory, right? Not unless they ever come out with a 64bit version anyway.
Re: A new PC config by Carlos Manuel on Jun 30, 2009 at 2:54:03 pm
Thanks Dean,
I know that Combustion will only use the memory addressed by the 32-bit OS.
But, and against my heart, in a near future I will have to move to work also with AE, in that momment the 64-bit OS will take advantage of all the memory available.
I feel that Autodesk have shooted C* and it's bleeding to death...
Right now only Premiere Pro, Photoshop and probably Corel will use all the RAM.
Since this Pc will have to work for a couple of years, ist's better to be, as much as I can, future proff.
So what do you think of the Graphics card? I will NOT game on this machine.
It's only for work mainly with the softs indicated.
Re: A new PC config by Dean DeCarlo on Jun 30, 2009 at 5:11:07 pm
I prefer Nvidia. I don't use OpenGL that much in graphics apps. I bought an Nvidia 9800gt a little while ago and that thing is fast. I'm sure the newer gtx260 /280 cards will be overkill for Combustion, AE, Premiere etc. but they will come in handy for Crysis!
Re: A new PC config by Dean DeCarlo on Jul 1, 2009 at 7:30:00 pm
Those high end Nvidia cards are sort of ridiculous. The FX5800 has high res. SD output if that is something you need. You can get a Blackmagic card with HD-SDI output now for $295 so I don't think it's worth it at all. That CX card has acceleration for Adobe CS4. I'm always skeptical of purpose built hardware as it usually too specialized and limited. You would be much better off IMO to build a cheap-o quad core render box or two and save your $$$. As to which card to actually get as I said I got a 9800gt for $100 recently and it rocks. I needed a single slot lower power card to go in to a Shuttle enclosure though. Looks like the GTX 260 hits the sweet spot of performance / price right now. If you are doing heavy duty 3d work then maybe it's worth it buying a better card but we do heavy 3d here and the graphics cards aren't the slowdown. Having enough CPU horsepower to crank through frames is. Tom's Hardware is a good reference for this kind of stuff.
