Could I get some help second guessing myself?

Hi I am building a set of new systems for work.
We are a small graphics and animation house with 3 animators. Earlier this year we lost our 2 editors, one to retirement and one who decided to go do his own thing.
So at the moment things are relatively good as we are getting a good deal of 2d and 3d animation work. I was tasked by my boss to come up with new systems that would "for now" bridge the gap for company that would be 3 all a round systems for 3 all a round broadcast generalist.
Our core software that we use is Autodesk Max/Maya and the CS5 production suite. Our use breakdown is around 50% 3d and 50% compositing/editing per job. Our editing demands are not full 24/7 editing but mostly rough cuts for compositing. My boss would like us to strech ourselves even a little bit thinner than we are and for us animators to be able to do unsupervised edits and in our 2 edit suites still hire full freelance editors on a per project basis until we can hire a new editor(s).
Here is what I can up with and a few notes. PLEASE any thoughts are welcome.
OS: Windows & professional 64 bit
Motherboard:
Supermicro H8DGi-F
CPU's: (x2)
Opteron X12 6134 G34 2.3G
Notes 16 cores total the most that Adobe and Mental Ray under Max and Maya I think will handel
GPU
PNY nVidia Quadro 4000
Had to got *pro card here it's not the fastest but unfortunatly the drivers for 3d are important to us, to the point we just could not pass them up.
Memory:
G.SKILL 4GB 8 kits (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
32 Gig total that means we should be able to support 9 fully funded cores for HD 1080 work for rendering in AE/Premier correct?
PSU:
Corsair Professional Series Gold High Performance 750-Watt Power Supply CMPSU-750AX
Needed for the pin outs for the AMD motherboard. I think I got enough voltage if I did my math right yes/no?
OS Drive:
Revo Drive 120 GB PCI Express solid state RAID drive
Used this drive so as to not take up a Motherboard SATA slot so I can squeeze 1 more drive into the raid and still have a DVD/Blueray burner. Given that it should act speed wise in parity with the raid as well seemed like a great option...or was I wrong?
Raid Drives: (x5)
SAMSUNG - SPINPOINT F1 DESKTOP CLASS 1TB 7200RPM 32MB
Seem like the most common raid drives atm from what I have seen. A vendor we are working with suggested instead that we use the Seagate Constellation™ ES drives but I am unsure. I was also told that yes even though motherboard raid controllers are bad that 5 of either of these drives should be able to play back an uncompressed HD 1080 stream. is this correct?
Blueray/DVD
LITE-ON Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM
anyone know if this drive is compatible with encore I cannot seem to find the encore compatibility list?
Audio Card
ASUS Xonar DS 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Audio Card
included for compatiblity sake here just in case someone has used this card and has had problems.
Monitors (x2)
Dell UltraSharp U2211H 21.5"W Monitor
IPS panels with display ports...they don't have the highest refresh rates but most ips panels don't, from what I see should I go with PVA Panels instead here? Still will need a display port hook up if I don't as the Quadro 4000 only has one DVI and I hate non native connectors.
additional questions: \
I see all the top performers in Harms' list are in the 980x camp and I would like to explore this option but intels hold such little amounts of ram. I know that a lot of the premier performance is on the Cuda side now for simple things, but for more complex tasks I thought 1080p HD required 3 gig per core to process a frame. I look at the pass mark scores and just don't see them doing as well as they do if given a 12 Gig system, what am I missing?
The reason I am posting this system here is frankly of all the disciplines we cover at work I know the least about editing and Premier. I know for 3 the purposed system is A level and on the compositing side still in the B level because the disk perf and ram are in order with the CPU's but is this system ok for editing tasks?
Our budget is around $4500 per system given that our demands are pretty steep covering 3d/2d/compositing and some editing how did I do?
-Carl
second guessing myself like crazy because as a company we need to hit this nail on the head.
*edited for spelling mistakes

Mulitple GTX 470 shouldn't cause any problems running in Premiere Pro CS5, although as you seem to be aware, they will not offer any additional performance improvements within Premiere. They will provide very good performance with iRay under 3DMax, although you should be aware that Geforce cards do not support the 3DSmax performance drivers and will perform poorly compared to the Quadro 4000 you mentioned in both Max and Maya.
Sean
Sean Kilbride
Technical Marketing Manager, NVIDIA

Similar Messages

While trying to convert pdf to word--keep getting message "an error occurred while trying to access the service" Could I get some help please?

Could I get some help with this?

Hi Shelly,
Are you trying to log in to ExportPDF from Reader? If so, please make sure that you have the most current version by choosing Help > Check for Updates in Reader. You should be using version 11.0.07 (Mac OS) or 11.0.08 (Windows)--earlier versions caused this sign-in error that you're seeing.
Let us know how it goes!
Best,
Sara

I unfortunately dropped my phone..and it turned off...now when i connect a charger it's showing the logo blinking on and off..could i get some help.. please ..!

could i get some help about the apple logo blinking on and off ..??

Your phone is damaged. Take it in to an Apple store for evaluation and possible out of warranty replacement.

Could i get some help with this one

the aim of this project is to make a n by n maze and traverse this. if, while traversing the maze the system realises that there is a dead end it turns back. My problem is that sometimes it turns back and sometimes it doesnt. Here, below is the method for traversing the maze. Could i get a second pair of eyes to help me out a bit with this code?
 * Prints out the current maze
 public void show()
 for (int i=0;i<array.length;i++)
 for (int j=0; j<array.length;j++)
System.out.print(array[i][j]) ;
System.out.println();
* traverses through the maze
* @param row: the current row
* @param column: the current column
public void traverse(int row, int column)
if ((row==3)&&(column==column-1))//checks if the array has reached the end
System.out.println("array is solved");
}else
if(array[row-1][column]=='.')//checks if should move up
array[row][column]='x';//marks path
array[row-1][column]='x';//marks path
System.out.println();
show();
traverse(row-1,column);
}else
if (array[row+1][column]=='.')//checks if should move down
array[row][column]='x';//marks path
array[row+1][column]='x';//marks path
System.out.println();
show();
traverse(row+1,column);
}else
if(array[row][column+1]=='.')//checks if should move left
array[row][column]='x'; //marks path
array[row][column+1]='x';//marks path
System.out.println();
show();
traverse(row,column+1);
}else
if ((row!=3)&&(column!=0))
if(array[row][column-1]=='.')//checks if should move right
array[row][column]='x'; //marks path
array[row][column-1]='x';//marks path
System.out.println();
show();
traverse(row,column-1);
}else/*1*/ if((array[row-1][column]=='#')||((array[row-1][column]=='*'))&&(array[row+1][column]=='#')||(array[row+1][column]=='*')&&(array[row][column+1]=='#')||(array[row][column+1]=='*'))
//checks if up is clear to move back
//checks if down is clear so could move back
//checks if right is clear to move back
if(row==3&&column-1==0)//checks if at the beginning of the array
System.out.println("MAze cannot be solved");
}else
if (array[row][column-1]=='x')//checks if behind has a x to move
array[row][column]='*';//prints dead end
array[row][column-1]='.';
System.out.println();
show();
traverse(row,column-1);
}else/*2*/ if((array[row+1][column]=='#')||(array[row+1][column]=='*')&&(array[row][column-1]=='#')||(array[row][column-1]=='*')&&(array[row][column+1]=='#')||(array[row][column+1]=='*'))
//checks if left is clear to move back
//checks if right is clear to move back
//checks if up is clear to move back
if(row-1==3&&column==0)//checks if at the begining of the maze
System.out.println("MAze cannot be solved");
}else if (array[row-1][column]=='x')//checks if behind as been marked
array[row][column]='*';//marks as dead end
array[row-1][column]='.';
System.out.println();
show();
traverse(row-1,column);
}else/*3*/ if((array[row+1][column]=='#')||(array[row+1][column]=='*')&&(array[row][column-1]=='#')||(array[row][column-1]=='*')&&(array[row][column+1]=='#')||(array[row][column+1]=='*'))
//checks if right is clear to move back
// checks if left is clear to move back
//checks if up is clear to move back
if (array[row-1][column]=='x')//checks if behind as been marked as a path
array[row][column]='*';//marks as dead end
array[row-1][column]='.';
System.out.println();
show();
traverse(row-1,column);
} else/*4*/ if((array[row][column-1]=='#')||(array[row][column-1]=='*')&&(array[row+1][column]=='#')||(array[row+1][column]=='*')&&(array[row-1][column]=='#')||(array[row-1][column]=='*'))
//checks if right is clear to move back
//checks if down is clear to move back
//checks if up is clear to move back
if (array[row][column+1]=='x')//checks if behind has been marked as a path
array[row][column]='*';//marks as dead end
array[row][column+1]='.';
System.out.println();
show();
traverse(row,column+1);

morgalr wrote:
That is truely one of the better threads that I've seen on the net for maze traversal.Forget "for maze traversal". That was one of the most interesting of all the threads I've seen here in quite a while. My sincerest admiration to those who contributed and eventually worked it out (and it wasn't me that's for sure), and especially to Keith. Impressive!

Could i get some helps about the website?

hi
i'm a new user of flash and dreamweaver. so please sorry for this question.
i used a template from flash and converted it into a swf. after i integrated that swf file into
my dreamweaver template. everything does work in my local browser but it's doesn't work after uploading to the server.
it redirects to a blank white page.
the website: http://www.goldenthai.info
here is the link of the whole folder of the website: http://www.mediafire.com/?etd7gufyxpi6zqm
if you need some additional things from me to solve the problem such as scripts, files please let me know. i will post it up.
thank you very much,
Jack.

Does your swf file load any other files that you might have forgotten to include when you uploaded the supporting files? If I link directly to the file on the server it still loads all white, but it does load (simply indicating the swf is there).

HT1414 when I do this steps thy give me a massege says " the iphone could not be restored . An unknown error accorred (3149) " . Can I get some help ?

when I do this steps thy give me a massege says " the iphone could not be restored . An unknown error accorred (3149) " . Can I get some help ?

Try using DFU/Recovery mode to restore
1. Plug iPhone 4 to computer
2. open iTunes
3. Turn off iPhone
4. Press home and power button for 10 seconds
5. Stop pressing the power. Button but keep pressing down the home button
iTunes should say the following; "iTunes won't be able to use your iPhone until you restore your device"
Then you'll have the option to restore and it should work, it has worked for me in the past

WebAssist Cart help? I know it's off topic but... Could really use some help...

I've got a shopping cart that is working and I'm trying to update the
quantities in inventory by subtracting the quantity ordered from the total
inventory in a table called ITEMS.
I can update a record after a sale in the cart, but right now it is
updating by completely replacing the value of the items in inventory with
the quantity in the checkout cart. So, if there are 800 items, after the
update, there are -1 total in inventory, not 799.
The problem is that I don't know how to coordinate the item(s) in the stored
shopping cart with a call to their ID and quantity in the online database.
Here's what I have so far:

Ahhhhhhhh Jeff... If I can get this going... I spent days looking for this solution. Thank you very much. Just bought Dreamweaver CS3 and am battling through the bells and whistles. Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: "jefferis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:50 AM Subject: Re: WebAssist Cart help? I know it's off topic but... Could really use some help... >A new message was posted by jefferis in > > ADDT - PHP Application Development -- > WebAssist Cart help? I know it's off topic but... Could really use some > help... > > On 6/16/07 3:06 PM, in article [email protected], > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi jefferis.... >> >> How did you solve the problem? >> I am having the same problem trying to incorporate an inventory code into >> a >> shopping cart that will deduct the number of items purchased from my >> total >> inventory to let me and my customers know how many items I have remaining >> in >> stock. >> >> Ex: >> inventory: 500 plants >> purchased: 20 plants >> remaining inventory: 480 plants > > Yes I did. > > I've been struggling with this piece of pie for about 5 days and > thought it might benefit others, so here's a way to update your quantities > in INVENTORY after a checkout success. I read another thread but found it > way too complex and depended on holding inventory in the session: > http://www.webassist.com/professional/support/kbcompletethread.asp?DiscID=33 > 046 > But you may lose the info when you go offsite to Paypal, e.g., to complete > the transaction. > > Here's my approach using the "checkout_success.php" page. Using this page > works because user arrives here ONLY after a successful purchase. > First of all, I used the BSM php sample store as a starting point. I > added > an ItemQuantity field to the items DB to track the stock or items in > inventory in the store. > > In order for this automatic deduction of sold items to work, it must be > placed within the do while { area of the display page for the cart's > items. } The code is commented below: > > <?php > //WA eCart Show If Start > if (!$eCart->IsEmpty()) { // IF CART NOT EMPTY... > ?> > <h2>Order Receipt </h2> // STANDARD STUFF TILL NEXT COMMENT > > <h3 class="eCart_OrderHeaderInfo">Order number: <?php echo > session_id(); > ?></h3> > > This is your order receipt. Please > make > a copy for your records. An email will also be sent to you. > <table class="eC_ShoppingCart" border="0" cellspacing="0" > cellpadding="0"> > <tr> > > <th>Name</th> > > > <th>Price</th> > > > <th class="eC_FormItem" >Quantity</th> > > > <th>Total</th> > </tr> > <?php > while (!$eCart->EOF()) { // DO WHILE FOR EACH ITEM IN CART > ?> > <tr> > > <td><img src="/images/thumbs/<?php echo > $eCart->DisplayInfo("Thumbnail"); ?>" alt="" width="100" height="100" > class="eC_ProductThumb" /> > <?php echo > $eCart->DisplayInfo("Name"); ?> > <?php echo > $eCart->DisplayInfo("Description"); ?> <p > class="eC_ItemDescription"><?php echo $eCart->DisplayInfo("ID"); > $idCall = $eCart->DisplayInfo("ID");?>> // CREATE A VARIABLE FOR > //THE ITEM's ID NUMBER in the DB > //USE DISPLAY ID TO GET ID # and make it = $idCall > </td > <td class="eC_PriceItem" ><?php echo > WA_eCart_DisplayMoney($eCart, $eCart->DisplayInfo("Price")); ?></td> > > > <td class="eC_FormItem" ><?php echo > $eCart->DisplayInfo("Quantity"); > $solditems = $eCart->DisplayInfo("Quantity");?> //DO THE SAME FOR > QUANTITY > //SOLD, MAKE QUANTITY SOLD = $solditems > </td> > > // NOW UPDATE THE DATABASE. SUBTRACT $solditems from ItemQuantity ( YOUR > //INVENTORY OR STOCK) > //FOR EACH ITEM IN CART. SELECT the item's ID by $idCall: > <?php > mysql_select_db($database_connBSM, $connBSM); > $query_itemQ = "Update items SET items.ItemQuantity = > items.ItemQuantity - > $solditems WHERE items.ItemID = $idCall"; > $itemQ = mysql_query($query_itemQ, $connBSM) or die(mysql_error()); > > ?> > <td class="eC_PriceItem" ><?php echo > WA_eCart_DisplayMoney($eCart, $eCart->DisplayInfo("TotalPrice")); ?> </td> > </tr> > <?php > $eCart->MoveNext(); //// REPEATS BEHAVIOR FOR EACH ITEM IN CART > } > $eCart->MoveFirst(); > ?> > BTW, once the items in inventory = 0, the items do not appear in the > catalog. That is set in the catalog page's recordset. > Jeff > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Jefferis Peterson, Pres. > Web Design and Marketing > http://www.PetersonSales.com > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > View/reply at <<a href="/cgi-bin/webx?13@@.3bc3e9d6/5">jefferis, "WebAssist Cart help? I know it's off topic but... Could really use some help..." #6, 19 Jun 2007 6:50 am</a>> > You must visit the conference to reply. Email replies are not allowed and > will be returned. > Use the unsubscribe form at > <a href=http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?280@@.3bc3e9d6!folder=.3bc3909c> > to cancel your email subscription.

Do i need 3g,4g,wifi to send sms/call somebody ? I could really use some help.

do i need 3g,4g,wifi to send sms/call somebody ? I could really use some help.

No, Standard Calls and text messages (SMS) only require the normal Phone service.
You can turn off 3G/4G/LTE and Wifi and still be able to get and make calls and send and receive sms.

I'm having trouble loading photos on my I phone 4s and I pod. I don't see the photos tab in Itunes?? Prob user error but wanted to get some help.

I'm having trouble loading photos on my I phone 4s and I pod. I don't see the photos tab in I-tunes? I'm sure its user error but wanted to get some help.

What's the origin of this external drive? It sounds very much like it's a Windows-formatted (NTFS) drive which Macs can't write to. If you can, copy the files off the drive, reformat it as Mac format (using Disk Utility) and copy the files back. If you need to continue writing to it from a Windows PC, you should format it ExFAT in Disk Utility.
Matt

We need to get some help and explanations about iChat video not working.

I've read so many postings about iChat Video hoping for an answer to my problem, but not only did I not find an answer, no one else has been receiving an answer either.
I've had multiple problems with my ichat video not working.
I either get an error saying someone didn't accept which isn't the case, or I get some error-8 or something ridiculous like that.
Can we get some help from apple support or something?!

Short answer: No, we can´t...!
Apple don´t care about us users, unless you pay for an Apple Care Service. Try your best to follow some advices from around this forum. That´s the only help you will get.
Some people have got their iChat video working again after following some advice. By the way. I´m not one of them... I´ve tried every single tip I read here, but I´m still stuck with text chat only...
Good luck.

I cant buy any thing tell i get some help

i got 1 free credit for a song but evrey time i try to use it i cant it tels me that i got to verafy my account so i do then it tells my it needs some billing info so i put that in and it tells me to conttact apple support so i was just bwondering if i can get some help please and thank you.

Apple Support iTunes Store Contact Us

Could not get F4 help assigne to Formula date on web

Hi All,
When i run my query in web , i could not get F4 help assigne to Formula date variable which is processing by customer exit and ready for input.
can u lease help me in this .
Thanks
Man

See these Norton support threads for information about Firefox 8.0 compatibility.
360 
http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-360/Firefox-8-Support-for-Norton-Toolbar/td-p/581640
NIS 
http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Firefox-8-Support-for-Norton-Toolbar/td-p/581516

How can I get some help!!!!!

How can I get some help!!!

Since you waited so long at your other thread for an answer, check there.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/25113630#25113630

My HT BDV-N790W shows "needs network update" also my netflix doesnt load. can i get some help

My HT BDV-N790W shows "needs network update" also my netflix doesnt load. Can i get some help, please.

There's a lot there, so I'll start with the parts I can answer quickly.
The "ACL found but not expected..." messages can be safely ignored, so says this article
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306925
(look below all the "SUID" examples)
I had changed my Desktop image earlier but when the "Installing 1 item" window came up it changed back to the back ground that you first see on your desktop after installation.
Leopard installs updates a bit differently. If it's simply an application that does not change system files, it installs them like before, without having to restart. If the update is to the system, then you must immediately "restart," It then goes to that stars and purple screen to perform the installation. Before, it would do the installation while you still had control of the Mac and would prompt you to restart when it finished the installation. This change probably make things more secure and reliable, because you aren't allowed to do other things on the Mac while system updates are being installed.
Please post back with the remaining point of concern.

When i try to re download apps for macs, it saws sign in for purchase history then nothing happens. i could really use some help. thank you

when i try to re download apps for macs, it saws sign in for purchase history then nothing happens. i could really use some help. thank you

Hi,
You've come across a MAS bug.
Install the v10.6.7 combo update here.
Restart your Mac after the update is installed.
Instructions for re downloading apps here.
Carolyn

Could I get some help second guessing myself?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for