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Sep 30 2008, 09:07 PM
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In this day and age what with Video Editing, Music Production and design and rendering of 3D video constructs for various reasons, it doens't hurt to have a fast machine. I have been limping along with a 1 CPU Athlon 4000 for a while now. Finally I have cracked, and I am building a new beast of a machine
 Here is the spec: 2 x 4 Core Xeon 2.33 Processor (yep, 8 cores, count 'em!) Tyan Dual Intel 5100 MB Nvidia Quadro FX570 Graphics Card (not the fastest but supposedly decent for video editing) 4Gb DDR 5300 RAM (Single stick I have 7 further slots ofr expansion) 2 x 320Gb Raid 0 System Disk (Total 640Gb) 2 x 750Gb Raid 0 Data Disk (Total 1.5TB) Cheap LightScribe DVD burner Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit (We'll see how well 64 bit works out ...) I'm hoping this will be a touch faster than my old PC ... First bits just arrived, should have it built by the weekend! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Sep 30 2008, 09:12 PM
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It's the beginning of Skynet....
Good luck with it ^^ May I ask how much it costs? 
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Sep 30 2008, 09:15 PM
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OMG Andrew are you planning on sending a rocket to mars!!
 That's an impressive rig mate, you didn't mention the soundcard though, you might as well throw in a nice one to record guitar straight into the card without latency or USB interfaces. Congrats on your new "monster"  QUOTE (Canis @ Sep 30 2008, 10:12 PM)  It's the beginning of Skynet.... -------------------- Guitars:
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Sep 30 2008, 09:29 PM
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OMG, I wish I had such a monster ;D!
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Sep 30 2008, 09:30 PM
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congratulations on your new monster Andrew!
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Sep 30 2008, 09:33 PM
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I already have an EMU1212m PCI soundcard - I'll just shift it over form my old PC
@Canis - in total the parts cost me around $2300 - I had to rein it in at that point and made do with only 4Gb of Ram and no BD burner, also coming down from 3.0G to 2.33G on the processors saved me well over a grand ... -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Sep 30 2008, 09:41 PM
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Impressive
 Im about to upgrade my computer too won't be as fast as yours- I'll only be on 4 cores (phh loser) |
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Sep 30 2008, 09:43 PM
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QUOTE (DeepRoots @ Sep 30 2008, 04:41 PM) Impressive Im about to upgrade my computer too won't be as fast as yours- I'll only be on 4 cores (phh loser) *Patronizing tone of voice * There there, Jord, I'm sure it will be quite fast ... Mine on the other hand will render GMC lessons so fast that it will go back in time and implode the Space Time continuum! Mwaaahaaahaaa! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Sep 30 2008, 09:43 PM
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I bid you luck Dr Frankenstein
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Sep 30 2008, 09:55 PM
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OMG Andrew , 8 cores !! Please make sure you don't make a nuclear disaster
That's a monster really , should work very well once you build it !
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Sep 30 2008, 10:03 PM
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*no green eyed smiley*
Sounds cool, I want one!! I cannot convince my wife to allow any upgrade on PC at the mo, so will have to make do with the 2.3 mice o hertz dual applecores, shoebox case, and abacus basically a small advancment on the "Difference Machine" 
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Sep 30 2008, 10:25 PM
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Just a "touch" faster Andrew.
No don't give us those excuses with you old machine being to old etc, we all know that you are actually buying 8 core machine so you can make the tea directly on the case, without having to go to the kitchen. Admit!  Kidding aside, that is one heavy piece of machinery. I'm very interested to see how you gonna do the isolation and cooling. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Sep 30 2008, 10:31 PM
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Holy moly, now that's a machine
Congratulations
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Sep 30 2008, 10:39 PM
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Save a little money for some oven mitts!
-------------------- Live well, and live often!
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Sep 30 2008, 11:30 PM
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Heh, I am a little worried about the cooling guys - I have a couple of huge CPU coolers, but I am prepared to go to water cooling if I have to - thing is this PC needs to work in a hottish room as you will have seen from my studio blog, so I am half expectng overheating and stability issues ...
I'm going to try very hard to make Vista work - you don't know until you try! I can always fall back to XP if absolutely necessary though .... -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 1 2008, 12:04 AM
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good luck with your machine. Sounds like a powerful beast that can serve you for a long time.
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Oct 1 2008, 12:17 AM
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hi,andrew..sounds like an awesome pc your building, i,ve had vista home premium for over a year and had absolutely no problems with it !!! so good luck on the monster !!!!!
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Oct 1 2008, 01:05 AM
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I PROMISE you will hate Vista. I had the 64 bit Ultimate version I tried and I tried. It was unreliable, un supported, and a disaster. I highly suggest you steer away from it...
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Oct 1 2008, 11:03 AM
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W0W
my comptuer maybe the worst here. 1 core,900 RAM veryy veryyy old graphic card i hope that machine wont eat u |
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Oct 1 2008, 11:23 AM
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Massive overkill. But hey, if you have the money!
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Oct 1 2008, 11:26 AM
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Since you will be working in hot environment , I would suggest maybe looking into water cooling thing.Its both cool and very efficient
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Oct 1 2008, 11:31 AM
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Water Cooling is a necessity. Also how big is the PSU?
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Oct 1 2008, 02:02 PM
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QUOTE (fatb0t @ Sep 30 2008, 08:05 PM) I PROMISE you will hate Vista. I had the 64 bit Ultimate version I tried and I tried. It was unreliable, un supported, and a disaster. I highly suggest you steer away from it... QUOTE (bmh1109 @ Sep 30 2008, 08:26 PM) Ive been running vista...32bit and 64bit on different machines, and with their more recent updates like service pack 1 I have had 0 issues. Don't hate on vista to much, it definitely has some good things going for it. I personally have never had any issue with recording DAW's or driver support for ASIO or anything like that, and I've used quite a few different DAW's trying to figure out which i like best. This is exactly why I am trying Vista for myself - 2 people, 2 opposite opinions! I'll just have to see how it works out for my personal usage ... 64 bit is the way to go for the future - I still might be a little ahead of the curve, but time will tell. And I still have the option of running a 32 bit OS if I really have issues. QUOTE (bmh1109 @ Sep 30 2008, 08:26 PM) And may I ask why the 8 core machine Andrew? My quad and render out a very layered project song in under a minute. I also do video editing and have rendered a highly compressed 30min. long video that i made in about 35-40min. which is pretty good considering the format I was using. Just seems like a kinda overkill processor setup. I am however highly jealous of your dual Raid setup  I'm sick to deat of waiting for my PC to do stuff, so I went from the sublime to the ridiculous of course (its a character flaw I know ...). I'm pleased to hear that a Quad core would have been great for the stuff I want to do, so now I have 2 x great Also, I do a lot of 3d rendering which is even more demanding than Video & Music - I currently render 10 second video clips (not even complex ones) overnight - takes about 12 hours. I should be able to get that down to a couple of hours which would be an improvement but still nowhere near instant!QUOTE (Duncan @ Oct 1 2008, 06:31 AM) Water Cooling is a necessity. Also how big is the PSU? 650W - hopefully that will handle it, but if not, a PSU upgrade is cheap enough. I'll wait and see with the water, but I will start pricing options up! Any recommendations from anyone on that? I have never used WC before ... -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 1 2008, 03:40 PM
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QUOTE (OrganisedConfusion @ Oct 1 2008, 09:23 AM) You have never used a toilet before You must have a bladder of steel lol
-------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 1 2008, 05:03 PM
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QUOTE (Duncan @ Oct 1 2008, 11:50 AM) I've just bought this for just under £700: AMD Phenom 9950 AM2+ 4GB Ram 500GB Hard Drive NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1GB Microsoft® Windows Vista Home 64-bit 650W Thermaltake Toughpower 3 Year Bronze Warranty @ Andrew: I would serious suggest upgrading that PSU to maybe a 1000W. Otherwise you might find your system slightly unstable. I could be wrong, but if you're spending that much what is an extra £50 to upgrade the PSU? Yah, you might be right - I'll see how it goes! I based it on a music PC spec I found on the web and forgot to up it when I added a couple of drives. I have the PSU already though so I'll give it a go and get a better one if necessary - thanks for the advice! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 2 2008, 06:21 AM
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check this out to workout what your power requirements should be close to... obviously not 100% accurate, but great for a ballpark figure....
http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine -------------------- Guitars
Ibanez Prestige RG2570E, Fender MIM Strat Amps Mesa Studio Preamp--->Mesa 50/50--->Line 6 M13 ---> into Avatar 2x12 Cab rewired for stereo operation |
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Oct 2 2008, 07:04 AM
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Wow,congrats man.Specifications look amazing.
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Oct 2 2008, 08:39 AM
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Will you be able to play Max Payne on it?
Killer specs Andrew,have fun with the monster!
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Oct 2 2008, 08:46 AM
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QUOTE (Muris Varajic @ Oct 2 2008, 01:09 PM) Will you be able to play Max Payne on it? Does this old guy play games? |
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Oct 2 2008, 08:49 AM
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QUOTE (Vinod Saranga @ Oct 2 2008, 09:46 AM) Does this old guy play games? Who,Andrew or me? Cause I do.
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Oct 2 2008, 08:57 AM
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Andrew
You are not that older |
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Oct 2 2008, 09:00 AM
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QUOTE (Vinod Saranga @ Oct 2 2008, 09:57 AM) You are not that older Says who? Sorry for spamming your topic Andrew,we'll stop now.
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Oct 2 2008, 09:02 AM
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Vinod < Muris < Andrew
This is the order of age. |
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Oct 2 2008, 01:37 PM
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QUOTE (Vinod Saranga @ Oct 2 2008, 03:46 AM) Does this old guy play games? You're as old as you feel! Last game I beat was Assasins Creed on the PS3 QUOTE (mattacuk @ Oct 2 2008, 05:00 AM) Andrew is my hero. He plays guitar, writes Pearl scripts, and now he has an 8 core monster PC !! Just awsome And Matt is my hero for broadly similar reasons - he just needs to keep his mind more on shark fishing than the boring kind ... QUOTE (OrganisedConfusion @ Oct 2 2008, 05:25 AM) Where did you buy the parts for this PC? newegg.com QUOTE (bmh1109 @ Oct 2 2008, 01:21 AM) check this out to workout what your power requirements should be close to... obviously not 100% accurate, but great for a ballpark figure.... http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine Great site thanks! It tells me I need 363 watts so I guess I am good
-------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 2 2008, 02:07 PM
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QUOTE (OrganisedConfusion @ Oct 2 2008, 08:38 AM) They don't deliver to the UK its OK, I don't live in the UK anymore
-------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 2 2008, 02:29 PM
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QUOTE (OrganisedConfusion @ Oct 2 2008, 09:18 AM) Things are so much cheaper in America. Your PC would cost double what you are paying here. Yeah, its a big part of why I moved over here - everything is cheaper (although prices are rising at the moment) and taxes are lower. I took a pay cut in absolute financial terms but more than made up for it because of those 2 facts, so in quality of life terms I got a decent pay rise
-------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 2 2008, 04:09 PM
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QUOTE (Vinod Saranga @ Oct 2 2008, 10:03 AM) I was kidding Andrew.Hope it didn't hurt you. Again congratz for your Monster Of course not
-------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 2 2008, 05:15 PM
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QUOTE (Canis @ Sep 30 2008, 10:12 PM) It's the beginning of Skynet.... lol
-------------------- Gear:
Fender "California series" stratocaster Roland Cube 20X Peavey Envoy 110 |
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Oct 2 2008, 07:50 PM
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Annoyingly, I got the wrong power supply (ATX instead of EPS) ... so I can't build it tonight
However, I took the opportunity to upgrade to a 1000W PSU, so there should be no possibility of power problems now! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 2 2008, 10:33 PM
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1KW of power, oh boy... somebody is gonna get a big bill
-------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Oct 3 2008, 01:02 AM
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Wow!! Great machine man!! I could play Crysis with the highest details!!!
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Oct 3 2008, 02:24 AM
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QUOTE (Duncan @ Oct 2 2008, 03:35 PM) Good stuff. Can't wait to hear about it when it is built. Are you just using it for music stuff and multi tasking? Or are you a PC gamer as well? Obviously with time all the components will be used as things progress. But at the moment there's nothing (that I'm aware of) that even uses 8 cores. Games that are only just coming out are starting to use more than one core. I do have reasons for going 8 core .... Reaper (my DAW) multiprocesses about the best of all the DAWs, so I will be able to run a gazillion plugins with zero latency - I have serious problems at the moment and didn't want to take any half measures, as I spend a lot of time mixing and recording music, and I record and play totally in the box so need a lot of CPU for that. I also do a lot of 3D rendering which is extremely CPU intensive - I don't know for sure but I hope my 3d apps will use all 8 cores to advantage. I also do a lot of video editing and currently can barely preview my vids in real time on my current pc. Plus, in 3 years, instead of being completely outmoded, it will merely be slightly slow. Oh, and because I can
-------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 3 2008, 07:30 PM
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Ah yes, of course!
They are ... 1. A computer shall not harm a human or through inaction allow a human to come to harm 2. A computer shall obey orders given to it by a human unless such orders conflict with the 1st law 3. A computer shall protect its own existence where such protection does not conflict with the 1st or 2nd laws Problem is, all computers are gits, and mine regularly harms me by messing stuff up, and practically always disobeys me .... only law it doesn't break is law 3 ... -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 3 2008, 08:05 PM
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And here's what it is like in a case with a 1000w PSU:
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Oct 3 2008, 11:37 PM
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Oct 4 2008, 12:42 AM
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And with the right amount of RAM and Harddrive capacity, you'll get this:
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Oct 4 2008, 03:24 AM
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* sweating *
Do I really want to hook up the new PSU when it arrives ??? -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 4 2008, 08:04 PM
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Andrew have you thought maybe to get a new Nuendo 4? have you tried any Steinberg DAW software?
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Oct 4 2008, 09:20 PM
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QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ Oct 4 2008, 04:24 AM) * sweating * Do I really want to hook up the new PSU when it arrives ??? The question should be: "Do I dare to play god?" -------------------- GMC is not just a website... It's a lifestyle!
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Oct 4 2008, 09:31 PM
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Just ordered mine! It won't match the strength of yours but you'll definitely feel a disturbance in the force.....
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Oct 4 2008, 09:38 PM
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congrats Andrew on 8 core's !! fantastic
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Oct 5 2008, 02:31 PM
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QUOTE (Ivan Milenkovic @ Oct 4 2008, 03:04 PM) Andrew have you thought maybe to get a new Nuendo 4? have you tried any Steinberg DAW software? Thanks for the suggestion Ivan - I've used it in the past and it works very well, but I don't enjoy paying for the new version every 18 months - its VERY expensive! I have found Reaper to be comparable in a lot of areas, better in some, and much much cheaper! Also new features are added all the time, so for now I am very happy with Reaper as it does everything I need. Because of its price I think a lot of people regard Reaper as a toy, but in fact its every bit as serious a DAW as Cubase! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 6 2008, 03:33 PM
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8 cores are overrated
Even vista cant use the horsepower properly Maybeeee OSX - Snow leopard with its Grand Central will make some use of it.. But as far, as I red (I may be wrong;) ), in some cases, dual and quadcores perform even faster at some times:P So all of us, others dont have to envy so much:P (its more of excuse for myself, for having just a normal, mortal PC )Other than that its sweeet Especially the single stick 4GB ram:P I want that too for VST's:(((
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Oct 6 2008, 04:49 PM
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QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ Oct 5 2008, 03:31 PM) Thanks for the suggestion Ivan - I've used it in the past and it works very well, but I don't enjoy paying for the new version every 18 months - its VERY expensive! I have found Reaper to be comparable in a lot of areas, better in some, and much much cheaper! Also new features are added all the time, so for now I am very happy with Reaper as it does everything I need. Because of its price I think a lot of people regard Reaper as a toy, but in fact its every bit as serious a DAW as Cubase! OK mate, that is a good reasoning indeed. Also with your mix of hardware software and experience Reaper will do the job just great, you have a point. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Oct 6 2008, 08:57 PM
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QUOTE (Ivan Milenkovic @ Oct 6 2008, 11:49 AM) OK mate, that is a good reasoning indeed. Also with your mix of hardware software and experience Reaper will do the job just great, you have a point. Not bashing Cubase at all though - I did like it a lot when I was using it! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 8 2008, 02:20 AM
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8 Cores...all that other stuff... Andrew are you planning to take over the world?!?!!?!
... (Acts Serious) Nice monster Andrew. Hope you enjoy it !
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Oct 8 2008, 03:31 AM
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wou Andrew! This is a REAL MONSTER! I'm sure that your new PC is going to prepair dinner and lunch for you...
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Oct 8 2008, 08:42 PM
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Its gonna run hot enough for coffee, for sure!
UPDATE: The monster lives. When I powered it on the lights dimmed and I heard ethereal voices chanting ... as I installed windows, shafts of light fell from the sun onto my new PC ... i'm scared to really use it though, what if it opens up a wormhole in spacetime and something comes out ... hey, what''s th Error 13b6 : Network Connection Lost, user terminated. -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Oct 8 2008, 08:46 PM
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That genuinely made me chuckle.
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Oct 13 2008, 12:47 PM
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I've just had to upgrade the PSU in my new PC to 1000W to accommodate 2xNVIDIA GTX 280's.
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Oct 13 2008, 02:05 PM
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QUOTE (Duncan @ Oct 13 2008, 07:47 AM) I've just had to upgrade the PSU in my new PC to 1000W to accommodate 2xNVIDIA GTX 280's. I'm up and running and my new machine is sweet! I'll post a new thread detailing my thoughts on Vista and 32 vs 64 bit since there were a fair number of opinions! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Oct 13 2008, 06:46 PM
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Andrew, how is the new machine going? Have you solved the cooling question?
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Oct 13 2008, 07:05 PM
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QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ Oct 13 2008, 03:05 PM) I'm up and running and my new machine is sweet! I'll post a new thread detailing my thoughts on Vista and 32 vs 64 bit since there were a fair number of opinions! Great news Andrew ! Looking forward to more detailed thread..I should be doing an upgrade myself some time soon too! -------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
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Oct 14 2008, 01:01 PM
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@Ivan - its running a little hot for my taste although not actually failing. I am still mulling things over - maybe I need to add some water cooling but I need to save up for that.
Overall CPU temperature is reported as 37, but the core temperatures vary a lot and get up into the 80s occasionally when the machine is working hard, which is a little too got for my liking! Also, one set of cores runs a lot hotter than the other. -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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