Brand new used PC finally found its way home - mine!
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Brand new used PC finally found its way home - mine!
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2017-02-17, 06:21 AM
My Vaio was an i7 F series from 2010. Some full movie renders with colour correction would take 40 hours plus. At that time it would be unuseable for anything else. It would make a lot of noise and get very hot. The leather style finger rest got so hot it eventually warped and melted off. I had a lot of renders lost though shutdowns, and ended up having to render in chunks. Now I can do the whole thing in a few hours, and I'm able to still use it while it works.
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(2017-02-17, 02:21 AM)spoRv Wrote: Thanks Evit! I'm sure of that - I'm still loving my 10yrs old Core 2 Duo E6300... so, probably, I'll be in love with this new CPU for the next five to ten years - without speaking about the case... it's really neat, but now I discovered the Thermaltake Level 10... You can keep that for accessing the forum while you're rendering. No, wait... with the new one you can do that without interfering whatsoever with rendering time! Keep your core duo for ripping laserdisc audio while you're rending with the new one, we're still waiting on the Italian track of Blues Brothers, brother! 
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(2017-02-17, 11:02 AM)Evit Wrote:(2017-02-17, 02:21 AM)spoRv Wrote: Thanks Evit! I'm sure of that - I'm still loving my 10yrs old Core 2 Duo E6300... so, probably, I'll be in love with this new CPU for the next five to ten years - without speaking about the case... it's really neat, but now I discovered the Thermaltake Level 10... First @ I will be there begin of April. But I won't get a system for rendering, just surfing, some good old games gaming, and maybe watching some movies. So no fancy quad-core, just da dual core and an on board graphic processor. Second @Evit: give him time, don't hustle him, and let him do the T2 audio tracks from the squeeze LD first...
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Ahahahah, sounds like you have a backlog there, Andrea. It sucks being a collector of laserdiscs... no, wait, it doesn't!
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2017-02-17, 02:55 PM
No, it doesn't indeed!
MrBrown, get an used Sony VGX-XL like mine; wireless keyboard with integrated pad is wonderful... By the way, I think the crashes I had lately were due to that HDD problems - using another, no crushes at all. And, I'm able to do a lot of other thing while encoding - yep, with a poor Core 2 Duo!
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2017-02-17, 03:32 PM
Now I'm thinking about disk situation.
Of course, that nice Raptor would feel alone, so I'll add some disks to make a good company. Idea is to reuse the ones I have now in the current PC (and dead ones, too):
Would a SSD really needed? Any advice on a 6TB internal drive? Also, a BD writer could be useful, but not fundamental for the moment, as there is one in the actual PC.
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I use SSD for Windows and installing programs like Adobe Premiere. My Windows starts up in 8 seconds, Premiere opens even faster. Aside from that, you do not want to write any data on a SSD hard disk, in fact all my cache, raw and exported files are on regulard HDDs so unless you are crazy about launching heavy software in 5 seconds, you don't necessarily need a SSD. It doesn't make exporting nor rendering faster.
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2017-02-17, 04:05 PM
Haha congrats on your system. I need to upgrade mine sometime.
2017-02-17, 04:49 PM
I'm the same Evit, SSD for OS and programs/apps, platter drives for everything else. Most SSDs come with software to optimize performance and prevent unnecessary wear as obviously they have a finite number of write cycles. It is satisfying to be up and running so quickly from booting up, on the contrary my old Dell with it's Seagate Barracuda was a case of turn it on and make a cup of tea while it loaded! Shouldn't imagine you'll have too much trouble with a 10,000rpm drive though, so long as you defrag regularly and don't write huge lossless files to it
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2017-02-17, 04:59 PM
Thanks Valeyard! I can't wait to use it for projects!!!
@Evit: it is what I suspected... even with this old PC and a 7200rpm, Windows XP loads in 20/30s - I can live with it! A 6TB drive at 129€... what's the catch? |
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