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xberk wrote on 3/12/2021, 2:28 PM

New Video card?

Paul B .. PCI Express Video Card: EVGA VCX 10G-P5-3885-KL GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 ULTRA ,,  Intel Core i9-11900K Desktop Processor ,,  MSI Z590-A PRO Desktop Motherboard LGA-1200 ,, 64GB (2X32GB) XPG GAMMIX D45 DDR4 3200MHz 288-Pin SDRAM PC4-25600 Memory .. Seasonic Power Supply SSR-1000FX Focus Plus 1000W ,, Arctic Liquid Freezer II – 360MM .. Fractal Design case ,, Samsung Solid State Drive MZ-V8P1T0B/AM 980 PRO 1TB PCI Express 4 NVMe M.2 ,, Wundiws 10 .. Vegas Pro 19 Edit

Grazie wrote on 3/12/2021, 2:54 PM

No 😂.

I’d spent a week rebuilding my system, after repair No1. Got to a point where I wanted to Backup and Access some old footage I took in Africa in 2015, but the HotSwap wasn’t being recognised - Ugh! Really??! 🤬Neither was my DireWire. O....K.... I did a video of the PC not noticing HotSwap HDDs and posted it to the company and they rushed to get my PC back to them. Which was a good thing 😃. Then guess what? The case was trashed/damaged, in transit in several places, the combo HotShoe was wrecked 😡. A replacement Case was sorted. The hardware checked on a24 hour testing. So, now I’m getting the system back tomorrow with a better HotSwap dock and the FeebleWire repaired. 😀

This last week has been a nightmare, but tomorrow I’m getting MONSTA! back in a sleek black case. Looks like the Black monolith from 2001 A Space Odyssey.

Thanks for asking.

rraud wrote on 3/12/2021, 5:14 PM

from 2001 A Space Odyssey.

updated with HAL 2.0

Grazie wrote on 3/13/2021, 9:06 AM

Back in Business!

walter-i. wrote on 3/13/2021, 1:52 PM

I'm keeping both my fingers crossed for you!!!!
 

Grazie wrote on 3/13/2021, 2:18 PM

@walter-i. Working nicely.

TheRhino wrote on 3/14/2021, 8:58 AM

@Grazie YIKES! It took about TWO months for them to resolve all of the issues! Although I have more than one workstation for paid work, I couldn't afford to have my best & fastest system down that long. Time = Money & Money = Time!

I highly recommend you (& other Vegas power users) learn how to build your own workstations watching Youtube videos, etc. so that you can easily repair or upgrade them in a couple days vs. weeks or months... I've been building my own Vegas workstations for over 20 years, and IMO the step-by-step YouTube videos make it easier than ever... (Sometimes I don't upgrade anything for a few years, so I forget more than I remember...) Also, most stuff is plug & play and modern UEFI bios & automated OS installation processes make it easy-peasy.

Our local MicroCenter has the 9900K CPU for just $250 US so I'm thinking of upgrading another older Xeon soon... The 9900K runs Vegas 18 just as fast as any other CPU out there right now because Vegas is not optimized for multi-cores above 6-8 cores...

Last changed by TheRhino on 3/14/2021, 8:58 AM, changed a total of 1 times.

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

xberk wrote on 3/14/2021, 10:23 AM

>> with a better HotSwap dock

What is the new HotSwap dock? Very curious.

Paul B .. PCI Express Video Card: EVGA VCX 10G-P5-3885-KL GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 ULTRA ,,  Intel Core i9-11900K Desktop Processor ,,  MSI Z590-A PRO Desktop Motherboard LGA-1200 ,, 64GB (2X32GB) XPG GAMMIX D45 DDR4 3200MHz 288-Pin SDRAM PC4-25600 Memory .. Seasonic Power Supply SSR-1000FX Focus Plus 1000W ,, Arctic Liquid Freezer II – 360MM .. Fractal Design case ,, Samsung Solid State Drive MZ-V8P1T0B/AM 980 PRO 1TB PCI Express 4 NVMe M.2 ,, Wundiws 10 .. Vegas Pro 19 Edit

Grazie wrote on 3/14/2021, 11:20 AM

@TheRhino - Look, I’ve had several workstations that I’ve been able to put right, but as I’ve grown old and crumbly I’ve got used to paying for support. The company I’ve had almost 10 year relationship has always done good by me. If you were down the road, @TheRhino, you’d be getting my kit. I’m not interested in building and upkeeping PCs. I’m really not. The turnaround on kit this last time was an odyssey of misfortune and damage in transit. But, at the end of the day, that’s me.

@xberk - You have a Message 😉

TheRhino wrote on 3/14/2021, 3:32 PM

@Grazie Sorry, I didn't mean to sound condescending... And I do understand letting go of stuff we used to do ourselves but now just pay someone else to do... I used to work on my own cars but I'm losing patience with them & am having others do more & more while I spend my time doing the stuff I enjoy doing...

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

Reyfox wrote on 3/15/2021, 6:28 AM

I've been building PC's for over 20 years and modifying them before that. It's like "therapy" for me. But I do understand letting someone else do something.

Yeah, the older you get, the less you want to be bothered with.... now if Vegas could understand voice commands...

Newbie😁

Vegas Pro 22 (VP18-21 also installed)

Win 11 Pro always updated

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 cores / 32 threads

32GB DDR4 3200

Sapphire RX6700XT 12GB Driver: 25.5.1

Gigabyte X570 Elite Motherboard

Panasonic G9, G7, FZ300

walter-i. wrote on 3/15/2021, 6:33 AM

now if Vegas could understand voice commands...

Remember:
The older we get, the more incomprehensible our language becomes.......

Grazie wrote on 3/15/2021, 6:59 AM

Well, with all this expertise, I now know where to come to ask PC questions too. What a TEAM we are.

TheRhino wrote on 3/15/2021, 7:45 PM

I've been building PC's for over 20 years and modifying them before that. It's like "therapy" for me

I'm an educator who also does paid editing work part-time. I too have been building my own Vegas workstations for over 20 years & likewise find it very therapeutic... Whenever I get burned-out working with students or editing (and can justify the time & expense), I enjoy upgrading my hardware.

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...