Are these good components?

geoffreymee wrote on 4/20/2002, 9:16 AM

Hi Folfs.
I am just about to buy VV3 with Premiere 6. A computer technician froiend of mone will put the system together. These are the comonents he recommends. Do you think they will make for a good system. Any suggestiions are welcome. Edwin, the techo, also tells me buying duel processors is not such a great move at this stage as only about 30% of program can take advantage of them. Opinions?

So here is the system components he recommends...
AMD Athlon XP 1.8 Ghz
Asus A7V333 KT333 MB
RAM 512MB DDR
HD 120 GB 7200 RPM
Yamaha724 Based SoundCard
Radeon VE 32 Mb, Dual Head
KB+ Mouse standard
CDRW 24x16x40x (Sony)
LAN 10/100
Medium Tower Casing

TIA
Geoffrey

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 4/20/2002, 3:49 PM

I just built one with a AMD 1.9. I went for the IWill 133 Raid MOBO that also has build in support for the up and coming IDE 133 drives. Dual CPU boards are mostly marketing hype and in my opinion a waste of your money considering the little kick you get since very little software takes any serious advantage of them. I would also skip the CDRW. Very soon the 2nd generation DVD RW and DVD +R drives will be out which will do everything any CD RW drive can do PLUS burn DVD's at pretty fast speed. Right now you can get DVD +RW but not DVD +R. Only difference is the former is rewriteable while the later isn't. So a price difference for the media you'll be buying. Instead of one very large drive I would get two and then put one on the secondardary so Windows can access both drives at once which will give you a minor speed boost.

nlamartina wrote on 4/20/2002, 3:54 PM

Geoff,

Looks excellent, but tell his he needs to have at least two hard disks, one for system data, and one for media capture/storage. If you capture on the same disk you run the programs from, you'll run into problems, like dropped frames. It's better to have a disk dedicated to each purpose, rather than do two things at once. In my personal system, I use the following:

- 10 gig, UDMA-100 system drive, FAT32 (for the OS, Vegas, and plug-ins)
- 30 gig, UDMA-66 capture drive, NTFS (for audio recording and DV capture)
- 60 gig, UDMA-33 storage drive, NTFS (for storage of loops, clips, and projects)

This way, there's a disk dedicated to each specific function in the process of making digital content. It's just a lot less taxing on the system, and a lot easier than doing guesswork with file partitions. It might not work with everyone, so take this as my personal opinion on the subject.

Two other things... An OS that supports NTFS file partitions is recommended, as I'm sure you'll want to avoid the 4 gig file size limit of FAT32. Also, be aware that the Yamaha724 is no longer supported by Yamaha, but the final drivers are pretty outstanding, since they included support for Sensaura extensions.

Hope this helps,
Nick LaMartina

Spirit wrote on 4/21/2002, 1:26 AM

And what sort of hard drive are you getting ? The IBMs have some problems in prolonged use. Highly recommeneded is the Seagate Barracuda IV 7200rpm. That's becoming a bit of a standard with digital audio workstations. And is that a VIA chipset ? Personally I'd never touch VIA - but then I do a lot of audio work... maybe it's OK for video. Personally I'd go Intel P4 with an Asus p4T or P4b266, but that's just me...

Spirit wrote on 4/21/2002, 1:34 AM

One other question: Why would anyone run Premiere 6 and VV3 ? I'm not criticising this, but am genuinely interested. I would have thoughr that they were similar enough to make having the other irrelevant. I'm sure there's a couple of features that each has that the other lacks, but isn't this overkill?

Can someone illuminate me ?

geoffreymee wrote on 4/22/2002, 10:55 AM

Thanks for the tips and suggestions guys...
Spirit, I am putting on Prem 6 in part because I own one now. I was using the DC30 plus analogue card before. The editor I use is comforatble with Prem 6 and we have a project to commence and finish within a week so he needs to rack up the efficiency and get this out. We dont know how to handle VV3 yet so we shall learn along the way. The thing that really turned my head on to VV3 was the review by Charles White at this site http://www.dvformat.com/htm/HomeSet1.htm
He says to get the real benefits out of the system you should have a duel processor setup, yet BillyBoy reckons there are few benefits, so where do i go? And to answer your q BillyBoy i dont know which HD he wants to install...yet
I will be talking to my techo mate about your suggestions...thanks again.
New topic coming up..Prem and Speed Ramping. See the header in a seperate E.
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