Recent content by Sakaris

So a buddy of mine asked me to build him a pc strictly to "run final fantasy XI well" on the cheap. I said no prob. Now he wants a laptop and wants to run a ff xi server, with bots, hopefully dual boxing. Totally insistent on the laptop... which will stay on his coffee table, go figure. I've...

From what I can gather I shouldn't expect the GPU to speed up the encoding process, though I'm still not sure what tangible advantages I should expect. The 295 is certainly a beast, but at a hair short of $500 on superbiiz I think I likely will pass on it. Originally including a high end GPU...

I'm not sure. We'll most likely be using a sony XDCAM pmw-ex3 recording at 24psf 4:2:2 10-bit over HD-SDI. Whichever card will have to support genlock, and 24psf capture at 1920x1080. I haven't worked with a dedicated editing card before, and we've been looking at BMD decklink cards and...

I'm piecing together a video editing workstation and I was wondering if anyone had any trouble with boards that have two Tylersburg 5520 chipsets to increase pcie bandwidth on them. I have heard that Supermicro boards have problems with dual graphics setups (though to what extent I don't know)...

We'll most likely use Adobe premiere cs4, I didn't think about cuda, thx, I'll look into gtx 295's. I'm not sure how gpu's are utilized on that NLE, granted I've seen bundle deals for quadro cx cards and adobe cs4 products.

I adjusted my first post accordingly. I think the redundant power supply is nice but a bit overkill, though it comes with the case.

I need to assemble a system within the next month for the purpose of HD video editing and gaming. Later next year I'd like to be able to equip it to capture uncompressed HD. I'm in California and my budget is $3200 US max including shipping and taxes. I have a mouse, keyboard, and speakers to...