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A question came up on a thread that someone posted about their new rig that is overly insane by some people's standards. Some one posted a reply saying "why would anyone need a rig like that?" I can tell you why!
Some of us PC/Mac users, don't just use our computers for Games, Internet, Downloading or Porn. Some of us use our computers for much much more. Like someone like myself, I happen to be a animator, both computer and traditional. I frequently use 3d Studio Max, and it is perhaps one of the most resource hungry consumer apps. When you have Millions of Polygons, and tons of effects and lighting to render, a Super Machine would cut time on rendering. For instance I have this animation I did, its only about 45 seconds, but it took over 3 weeks to render out. Now if I had a Dual Xeons with hyper threading enabled I may have been able to cut that render time down to maybe just a week. or even a few days. Digital Video Editing is another reason some one would need a great machine to work on. Every 5 minutes of Raw DV footage is about 1 gig of information. If you ever used a DV editing program you know, working with those files cause a general computer to lag .... alot. Aside from that, Next Gen games will take whatever you throw at it example DOOM III and Half Life 2. Those of you who think your gonna be able to play those games with your 1Ghz Proc and 512MB of RAM and your 64meg video cards, then you'll be visiting LAG city. Finally I would just like to say, that just cause some one is building an insane PC better than yours, don't doubt the man, he just may well need it.
Word Up. =P
Besides, its a hobby, does a man really need a car w/ 600hp when he can never drive it to its fullest capablities. Yes he does.
Some of us PC/Mac users, don't just use our computers for Games, Internet, Downloading or Porn. Some of us use our computers for much much more. Like someone like myself, I happen to be a animator, both computer and traditional. I frequently use 3d Studio Max, and it is perhaps one of the most resource hungry consumer apps. When you have Millions of Polygons, and tons of effects and lighting to render, a Super Machine would cut time on rendering. For instance I have this animation I did, its only about 45 seconds, but it took over 3 weeks to render out. Now if I had a Dual Xeons with hyper threading enabled I may have been able to cut that render time down to maybe just a week. or even a few days. Digital Video Editing is another reason some one would need a great machine to work on. Every 5 minutes of Raw DV footage is about 1 gig of information. If you ever used a DV editing program you know, working with those files cause a general computer to lag .... alot. Aside from that, Next Gen games will take whatever you throw at it example DOOM III and Half Life 2. Those of you who think your gonna be able to play those games with your 1Ghz Proc and 512MB of RAM and your 64meg video cards, then you'll be visiting LAG city. Finally I would just like to say, that just cause some one is building an insane PC better than yours, don't doubt the man, he just may well need it.
Word Up. =P
Besides, its a hobby, does a man really need a car w/ 600hp when he can never drive it to its fullest capablities. Yes he does.
