My new toy arrives tomorrow

I save a lot of money by buying good - not great - speakers. I'm totally tone deaf - couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. Know quite a few other people that can't carry a tune but insist of great speaker systems - all they need is loud. -

My wife's family all are very musically talented with fine ears and put a lot of money into sound systems - they ask me to see the difference between system A and System B and they all sound about as good as AM radio to me - lol.

theSCIENTIST wrote: High-end video? Graphics? Bluefrog's computer may not even be suitable for this, remember that's a custom build computer, with average mass produced components, for these tasks, you may need to look for proper workstations, ECC memory, workstation motherboard with a proper chipset supporting chipkill and many other high-end features, proper high-end graphics card, this is a graphics workstation, server like technology. He can run photoshop alright, but I want to see him doing non-linear video editing on (just) 1 hour of video, applying layer effects, masks, transitions, run previews, then render, it will most likely fail.

Bluefrog, I didn't meant any disrespect with I have said above, you have a great and fast setup for a multi-purpose home computer, also becareful with hardware incompatibilities, if one component don't likes another, that's all it takes to have an unstable system, but keep up with new drivers, and always read what they improve before installing, don't just install, trust me on this.

Gullanian wrote: Yeah but it's fun to have an Uber computer

No doubt about it, always buy as fast and future proof as one can afford, I just though Bluefrog was saying he got a new development computer, which it isn't, but if it was the case, he would be better off with a compromise of a slower processor in turn for ECC memory and motherboard supporting it, GPFs are a pain, not to mention the lost code.

theSCIENTIST wrote: theSCIENTIST wrote: High-end video? Graphics? Bluefrog's computer may not even be suitable for this, remember that's a custom build computer, with average mass produced components, for these tasks, you may need to look for proper workstations, ECC memory, workstation motherboard with a proper chipset supporting chipkill and many other high-end features, proper high-end graphics card, this is a graphics workstation, server like technology. He can run photoshop alright, but I want to see him doing non-linear video editing on (just) 1 hour of video, applying layer effects, masks, transitions, run previews, then render, it will most likely fail. Bluefrog, I didn't meant any disrespect with I have said above, you have a great and fast setup for a multi-purpose home computer, also becareful with hardware incompatibilities, if one component don't likes another, that's all it takes to have an unstable system, but keep up with new drivers, and always read what they improve before installing, don't just install, trust me on this. Gullanian wrote: Yeah but it's fun to have an Uber computer  No doubt about it, always buy as fast and future proof as one can afford, I just though Bluefrog was saying he got a new development computer, which it isn't, but if it was the case, he would be better off with a compromise of a slower processor in turn for ECC memory and motherboard supporting it, GPFs are a pain, not to mention the lost code.

YEAH~! The new box just arrived~!

And yes - it is multi-purpose. I want to do different kinds of things on it - graphics, audio, development mostly though. I'll do some video encoding, but not editing, or VERY little editing and only very short clips.

It will work for medium audio work and I can get high-end quality for the type of stuff I want to do, but it isn't a DAW. Hell... I don't even have a sound card in it.

For video - forget it. You've got to shell out 5k for a half decent low-end NLE to start. I can do some video stuff on it, but nothing intense or even approaching serious. Most low-end NLE's start at 10k+. It's NOT difficult to put 75k into a video workstation.

I've got an AMD 1800+ box and it sucks horribly. Other boxes are a 500MHz intel, 600MHz intel, 300MHz Intel, 400MHz intel, 1.1MHz intel laptop, and another broken laptop.

I usually work with about 20 ~ 30 windows open, and that slows things down. At the moment I have 24. 8 explorers, outlook express (please don't hate me), 6IE (please dont' hate me again - I heavily plug firefox on my site  ), 1 Firefox (which is usually all you need), EditPlus, 2 VS, WMP, Music Match, and a few others. Also have a few services running etc. Things get slow real quick. Hopefully the new box will keep up a bit.

A friend of mine is keeping his eyes out for a cheap mac for me as well. I want to start developing on them. A few months ago he bought every last box of 1 model of mac in the country (Apple isn't very popular here). He offered me one cheap, but I wasn't too interested then. He still hasn't found me one yet... Got to ride his case a bit...

Well, back to getting the new box secured before plugging it into the internet...