Re: New Computer Time
- From: "GaryT" <gtemplemanPAINT@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:22:38 -0700
"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "El Marko" wrote ...
> > Don't get sucked in for all that brand name baloney either buy the
> > parts and build a computer or go down the street to hi de ho joe to
> > buy a computer. Either way you'll save at least 40 percent and the
> > parts have a warranty anyway. If you'll be editing high definition
> > television go for the dual xeon type anything less any prescott of 3.2
> > gigahertz or higher will do.
>
> I agree. If you can't assemble a computer for yourself, you'd
> be better off going to a local shop and at least getting a quote
> from them. I'm pretty dubious about "brand name" PC hardware.
I have built a number of PC's and my experience is that it takes a lot of
leg work to find all the components at prices low enough. I certainly have
not seen a 40% savings. If you pay retail for the video/audio cards, etc. it
can end up costing more than an assembled unit. The Dells of the world can
buy all those components in large lots at rock bottom prices. But looking at
building from scratch is part of my research. My question was oriented more
towards the components themselves and functionality. Things like the
statement of possible problems with Sound Blaster IEEE 1394 ports. I need to
look into that more before deciding (although I do have a PCI firewire card
I can pull from another computer). I don't anticipate editing HDTV. My needs
are more to cleaning up the home movies of the kids and grand
kids,vacations, etc. so a dual Xeon seems a bit overkill
>
> The difference in price between the XP Media Center and
> XP Pro versions is $20 at my neighborhood shop. I'm kinda
> dubious about the "Media Center" version, anyway. Dunno
> what it gets you of any real value? And the Home version is
> $30 less. Dell's prices for operating systems sound like rip-
> offs to me.
So that was part of my question too. Does the Media Center edition have any
drawbacks, and how does it compare with XP Pro. I do not anticipate a home
network so the greater networking capabilities of Pro are not needed
>
> A single hard drive seems like a significant problem.
> 160GB is overkill for the system-boot disc, and sharing
> it with video files is just asking for trouble. Forget RAID,
> get an 80GB system/boot drive and use your 160GB (or
> two 160s, no RAID) exclusively for video files.
I have been using a single drive on a 900 GHz Pentium , and while rendering
is slow, there have been no other problems. Don't want to continue to press
my luck however. I don't see any downside of using RAID 0 (striping, not
mirroring). You would still have the full capacity (160 x 2 for example)
plus faster read/write speed. Just don't know if the increase is
significant.
>
> What does this mean?: "Dual Drives 48x CR-RW + 16x
> DVD+/-RW w/ double layer write" Does that mean two
> different drives, one for CD and one for DVD? Sounds
> like they're trying to get rid of a warehouse full of old
> CD drives.
Sorry for the typo, should have read CD-RW. Dual drives a common in most
retail units. They can be useful when copying disks to avoid having to copy
first to the HD, but that is not a deal maker or breaker.
Thanks for lots of food for thought.
Gary
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