need help on dual processors
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Posted on Jan 25, 2005 12:40 am
zekthedeadcow
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Member Since: May 11, 2002
I've never delt with dual processing before and I'm planning on starting to assemble my uber linux video/audio workstation and I need help sorting hardware.
Cinelerra recommends a dual optron but which one should I be looking at? I havn't bought system hardware for a few years so I'm a bit crusty. Would a quad processing server be an option for A/V editing?
I prefer to not buy the latest thing... But something that can be used maybe to process HDTV footage (250MBps at least) and 3D work.
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Jan 25, 2005 06:14 am If you can afford quad yes, but it's hella-expensive. Since it's gonna be linux you don't need to worry about the licensing thing. Common store-bought Windows copies only handle up to 2 CPU's, for more the OS gets expensive. Dual processors mobo's and such can be reasonably priced.
Look around Tiger Direct, you then build them just like any other PC, just with more than one processor...just make sure all the processors match.
hybridtoadthink for yourselfMember
Since: Apr 29, 2004
Jan 25, 2005 01:25 pm you could od the same thing with several macs, as long as they are OSX based, you can run in unison several processors, and they do not even need to match, the program to do so is a freeware program, I do not have the site or I would post it. there fore you have a unix based program that you can even run your mac software on.
most people do not like the mention of the mac on here because they have such false hopes in microsoft, And because I say things like this.
Jan 25, 2005 02:46 pm or a shallow pocket!
Jan 25, 2005 02:49 pm hybridtoad...it's called a "grid" it's not a new concept...
I would rather have a single powerful computer than several sharing resources...the grid is a great concept for datacenters and large application servers, hardly necessary in the typical home studio.
Besides that, you won't gain a lot of friends by insulting people choices around here...I have no problem with anyone mentioningit, but I do have a problem with a condecending attitude while doing it.
Jan 25, 2005 03:53 pm ye canney wack a mac!
Jan 25, 2005 03:56 pm I just have one simple issue with mac: they made buying a computer a fashion accessory purchase, not a technology purchase...thats just friggin wrong. :-D
zekthedeadcowEat Spam before it eats YOU!!!Member
Since: May 11, 2002
Jan 25, 2005 09:55 pm I was thinking a G5 for a very short time but the guys in the local mac store were such weenies that I felt uncomfortable just being in the place. :) They also refused my credit cards and checks and would only accept cash for a $100 RAM upgrade :P Made me feel like they're selling hot merch :)
But I just feel more comfortable useing linux... the layout/console/commands make more sense to me ... but I was also one of those freaks who preferred DOS over win95&98
It's my understanding that a grid is less effective than a renderfarm because they have to pass though eachother where in a renderfarm you just need a GB connection on the master running firehose and the nodes directly connect...which in linux would be a free node license :)
Jan 26, 2005 05:49 am Mac people are pretty snobbish...I have been in Mac stores and was just turned off by their whole attitude of superiority...
Yes, the grid has it's drawbacks for things like you are doing, but for what they are made for, like I said, large datacenters and such, they work very well, and no computer goes to waste, once a computer is retired from single user-service..."toss it on the grid"...
Jan 26, 2005 07:04 am
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hybridtoadthink for yourselfMember
Since: Apr 29, 2004
Jan 26, 2005 08:26 pm yeah but db, it goes both ways. when one feels that a pc is better and does not even give a mac a chance if ever they even used one. I can say that I have worked many years with windows, i changed, and founds something i consider way better, and now I am trying to pass that on. I know that i have not made many friends on here, but like i said, all i am trying to do is share what I love. And not making friends does not mean that if I can help that I won't, i'll do anything that I can do to help, even if it is stearing someone towards what i feel is better, by the way, isn't that what you do? stear people towards something that you feel is better? n hard feelings, i love that little posting that you put up, is hilarious.
Jan 26, 2005 08:33 pm I personally have never said either is better than the other, you will see MANY places in this forum where I just say "use whichever you are more comfortable with, they both do the job" and they both do. They both have their upsides and downsides, just like anything.
So, when you say "when one feels that a pc is better and does not even give a mac a chance", you better not be referring to me, because if you are, you have no idea what you are talking about. I have used Mac a lot in my career, I don't prefer it, but, it's a computer, it does what it's supposed to.
As a rule, from my many years of experience in the field, people that use Windows use it cuz it's the most common and most widely available, Mac users, at least Mac evangelists, have this attitude of superiority and somehow being "avante garde" or something...rare is the time I see any "Windows evangalists", just Windows users.
hybridtoadthink for yourselfMember
Since: Apr 29, 2004
Jan 26, 2005 08:43 pm db i know that you have said that it is all in the personal choice of the user, i was never saying anything directly towards you or anyone on here, i was saying it in general, If one wants to use a pc, let them,
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Feb 05, 2005 04:32 pm I agree the Mac can do several things very well, and as well as a comperable PC. But that said, buying the hardware and software that is Mac exclusive is not cheap, and I honestly have found updates to be rare as well as inadequit as far as drivers and such goes. I know my bro in law swears by Mac, but what does he run for his business? A PC, because the software for the Mac fell far behind for what he needed, and as far as support for the software that was ported to the Mac, forget it.
Now indeed Mac is very well suited to Audio/Video production. But I honestly will not pay the prices for either the computer nor the software.
And dont get me wrong, I would not recomend one over the other as they both have their good points. But for the cost of speed and quality hardware, I will opt for the multitude of choice for the PC before I head in the Mac direction.
Just my 2 cents worth on the subject.
