Coma

No card. You should give me the $2000 instead, I'll put it to better use. :P

JKBenchmarks

Don't get a workstation video card.

You don't need the fastest RAM.

Everything else is fine, but another monitor would really make things easier to organize.

__________________

spice003

what about a raid setup?

__________________
Mozilla Firefox Club A little insight into BOSE speakers...and why you should steer clear!! If you buy Monster you are supporting bad business Windows 7 fan club

edwardm

Looks like its good enough. Like someone else mentioned, a second display would be good. Better speakers, soundcard?

__________________
CPU-Z - GPU-Z - F@H

jspeedracer

I don't believe Adobe is making use of it yet, but encoding with Cuda is pretty nice. I used Badaboom last week with my 9800gtx and it was pretty slick.

__________________

ShadowFox19

What's your Paypal? LOL!

Do you think the Dominator 1600's would be fine then?

I've already got a RAID 5 going, a PERD 6/i with four 1TB Caviar Blacks...soon to be eight in RAID 10 (or in RAID 6)

Yeah, I probably need a better sound setup. I'll probably end up going with an Asus Xonar card and a set of 2.1 speakers.

Actually, Adobe/NVIDIA does have a plugin called "Elemental Accelerator 2.0" that's supposed to tap into an NVIDIA workstation GPU's capabilities...I was looking at the Quadro FX 3800 for this.

jspeedracer

I think a gaming card would do just as good, then again I havent read anything on the matter. I know with my 9800gtx badaboom encoding around 150 to 180fps, I still get faster speeds using dvdflick for my m2v and ac3 files though. I would imagine for adobe's purposes it would probably be a nice boost.

__________________

Coma

Don't upgrade your RAM, it's fine.

Well, only if you want it for another reason... high quality gear won't improve the audio quality of the final product. You only need to be able to spot hisses and stuff to make sure you didn't screw something up.

It's pointless. Just use some other program to encode (usually significantly higher quality), and the only remotely slow thing editing software does is render gigantic text with effects on it, and that lasts for maybe 100 frames. Unnecessary, and certainly not worth the money. You'll be saving, best case scenario, 1 minute per project.

The degradation you get when encoding HD (720p), even at high bitrates (>5Mbps) with Badaboom is too great - so much information is lost that what's left is not of HD resolution anymore, for the most part (most high frequency information is gone).

jspeedracer

I only used it for testing purposes, I would like to see ati and nvidia looking more at technologies like these. DX11 is suppose to help with this type of stuff as well I've read. I think down the road most encoding will be done thru graphics cards. Lol maybe I'm completely wrong...

__________________