Laptop Build Questions

Hello all,
I am replacing my old desktop and laptop with a new laptop that is better than both. I am a film student and I prefer to do my editing at home as opposed to the school so editing capabilities is a must. I own the Production CS5.5 and I would like to build my laptop to match. I've decided on an Alienware because they are the only ones who provide Nvidia cards in a laptop and provide a nice exterior at a somewhat reasonable price, and I am deciding between the M14x and the M17x. My main question has to do with a video card - the cheaper laptops come with a Geforce GT555M card with either 1.5GB DDR3 or 3GB DDR3. The higher end laptops have a Geforce GTX560M or GTX580M with DDR5. Can those higher end video cards enable GPU acceleration? If not, is the DDR5 worth the upgrade to the more expensive laptop?
Also of question is the upgradeable memory. What is the performance difference between 8GB and 16GB? Is it worth buying the more expensive laptop for the ability to upgrade to 16GB alone?
Lastly, will the addition of an eSATA port for external storage make a big difference? I'd rather keep my storage external so I can move it to school when I need to, and because I just won't be able to get the kind of storage that editing requires in a laptop without losing another feature that I want like an optical drive or portability.
I'd rather go with the cheaper, lighter, smaller M14x if the hardware differences aren't going to make a huge difference. If they are, then I'll know what I need to do. Of course, everything would be much easier if editing applications would just support ATI cards. Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm sure that you are already well aware that video editing on a laptop has compromises, so the objective is to get the best mix of features and specs. considering your budget and tolerance for carrying weight and size.
Regarding GPU, the GTX 460M and 560M have reportedly been working well, and while the more powerful GTX video cards sound great they are more difficult to cool and would not likely be as robust for video editing. DDR5 is better.
Regarding CPU, you did not ask, but make sure you choose a quad-core 32nm CPU. Even the slower versions work pretty well and will save lots vs. the faster models of CPU in that same series.
Regarding RAM, go with 16GB for sure if you care about rendering speed (i.e. burning a DVD or Blu-ray). You can squeak by with 8GB, but with RAM prices today I would not suggest it.
Regarding eSata, I REALLY like it for laptop use. Fast and very reliable. USB 3.0 would be a second choice, and firewire 800 a distant third. USB 2.0 is pretty much only useful for backing up files on a video editing rig.
Regarding brand, Sager is the first choice around this forum for mid-priced laptops ($1500 to $2500) and high-priced ($2500 and up). Asus and MSI have some offerings that are more affordable, but do not have eSata ports.
Multi-spindle laptops are great. Some larger Sager's take up to 3 hard drives! The ultimate for video editing would be a SSD boot drive (around 120GB) + RAID 0 array with two 500GB or 750GB 7200 rpm drives. If you go with a smaller form-factor that cannot hold so many drives, Hitachi's G-RAID mini is a very nice small, fast RAID 0 2.5" drive solution that speaks eSata, firewire and USB (only 2.0); only downside is you need to plug it into a wall socket if you are using the eSATA.
Finally, don't forget to look at screen resolution, not just screen size. Personally, I would want 1980 x 1080 or better if I was editing on a single laptop display much at all.
Jim

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40. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:57 Finished Loading Hierarchies for RPTCURRENCY.DIMENSION. No hierarchy(s) Processed.
41. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:57 Started Loading Hierarchies for TIME.DIMENSION (9 out of 9 Dimensions).
42. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:57 Finished Loading Hierarchies for TIME.DIMENSION. 2 hierarchy(s) CALENDAR, FISCAL_CALENDAR Processed.
43. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:57 Finished Loading Hierarchies.
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45. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:57 Started Loading Attributes for ACCOUNT.DIMENSION (1 out of 9 Dimensions).
46. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:57 Finished Loading Attributes for ACCOUNT.DIMENSION. 6 attribute(s) ACCTYPE, CALC, FORMAT, LONG_DESCRIPTION, RATETYPE, SCALING Processed.
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48. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:57 Finished Loading Attributes for CATEGORY.DIMENSION. 2 attribute(s) CALC, LONG_DESCRIPTION Processed.
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57. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:57 Started Loading Attributes for RATE.DIMENSION (7 out of 9 Dimensions).
58. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:58 Finished Loading Attributes for RATE.DIMENSION. 1 attribute(s) LONG_DESCRIPTION Processed.
59. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:58 Started Loading Attributes for RPTCURRENCY.DIMENSION (8 out of 9 Dimensions).
60. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:58 Finished Loading Attributes for RPTCURRENCY.DIMENSION. 2 attribute(s) LONG_DESCRIPTION, REPORTING Processed.
61. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:18:58 Started Loading Attributes for TIME.DIMENSION (9 out of 9 Dimensions).
62. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:20:26 Finished Loading Attributes for TIME.DIMENSION. 3 attribute(s) END_DATE, LONG_DESCRIPTION, TIME_SPAN Processed.
63. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:20:26 Finished Loading Attributes.
64. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:20:26 Finished Loading Dimensions.
65. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:20:26 Started Updating Partitions.
66. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:20:26 Finished Updating Partitions.
67. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:20:40 Started Loading Measures.
68. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 08:20:40 Started Load of Measures: SIGNEDDATA from Cube FINANCE.CUBE.
69. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 10:54:06 Finished Load of Measures: SIGNEDDATA from Cube FINANCE.CUBE. Processed 100000001 Records. Rejected 0 Records.
70. 09-MAR-06 SPADMIN.APSHELL 10:54:06 Started Auto Solve for Measures: SIGNEDDATA from Cube FINANCE.CUBE.

Hi, I've taken a few minutes to do a quick analysis. I just saw in your post that this isn't "real data", but some type of sample. Here is what I'm seeing. First off, this is the strangest dataset I've ever seen. With the exception of TIME, DATASOURCE, and RPTCURRENCY, every single other dimension is nearly 100% dense. Quite truthfully, in a cube of this many dimensions, I have never seen data be 100% dense like this (usually with this many dimensions its more around the .01% dense max, usually even lower than that). Is it possible that the way you generated the test data would have caused this to happen?
If so, I would strongly encourage you to go back to your "real" data and run the same queries and post results. I think that "real" data will produce a much different profile than what we're seeing here.
If you really do want to try and aggregate this dataset, I'd do the following:
1. Drop any dimension that doesn't add analytic value
Report currency is an obvious choice for this - if every record has exactly the same value, then it adds no additional information (but increases the size of the data)
Also, data source falls into the same category. However, I'd add one more question / comment with data source - even if all 3 values DID show up in the data, does knowing the data source provide any analytical capabilities? I.e. would a business person make a different decision based on whether the data is coming from system A vs. system B vs. system C?
2. Make sure all remaining dimensions except TIME are DENSE, not sparse. I'd probably define the cube with this order:
Account...........dense
Entity..............dense
IntCo...............dense
Category.........dense
Time...............sparse
3. Since time is level based (and sparse), I'd set it to only aggregate at the day and month levels (i.e. let quarter and year be calculated on the fly)
4. Are there really no "levels" in the dimensions like Entity? Usually companies define those with very rigid hierarchies (assuming this means legal entity)
Good luck with loading this cube. Please let us know how "real" this data is. I suspect with that many dimensions that the "real" data will be VERY sparse, not dense like this sample is, in which case some of the sparsity handling functionality would make a huge benefit for you. As is, with the data being nearly 100% dense, turning on sparsity for any dimension other than TIME probably kills your performance.
Let us know what you think!
Thanks,
Scott

Re: another build question! (sorry lol)

Hi all
right, after days and days of researching all the excellent articles on here ive had to write a post! So apologies for going over old ground
Im going to build a new CS5.5 rig (having had a guts full of Apple and their FCPX fiasco its back to pc!)
so although i appreciate the 990x o'c is prob best option, bang for buck is leading me down the sandybridge i7 2600k o'c option on p67 mobo with 16gb of ram (option to take to 32 down the line when the chips are out)
anyway, im sorted on chip mobo (msi big bang marshal p67), nivida 570 etc , its the drives im struggling on!! Im edit avchd video and some after effects, small amount of 3d, and in FCP i always transcoded everything to prores. Now on cs5.5 it looks like real time performance is possible with high end hardwear.
So mobo, ram, and chip aside, my HDD config im unsure on, ive not really got the cash to go crazy with raid controllors etc, but understand need for seperate drives, etc and tbh might even go downt he cineform route as a prores alternative (prob avoiding hassles of drive speed with avchd)
im thinking as the SSD's are now dropping in price and the ocz are producing these 500 mb r/w speed sata 6 120gb drives for a reasonable price, would 3 of these drives (one for os, one for media , one for scracth disk ) be a good set up or is it a waste of cash and should i raid 0 from bios/mobo?
I appreicate that 120 gb drives for media etc are small, but i would take project media from another much large backup drive and just use the 3x ssd set up as working disks for editing & os? once project over, clear out drives to larger back up and start new project!
Its either that or i go SSD as bootdrive, but some sort of cheap raid set up for my scratch disk, media drives? prob is if i do that, from what ive read (brain dead now) i would be best off with 2 x raid 0 as scratch disk and orginal media respectively when workign with avchd
HOWEVER, on my mobo there are only 4 sata 6 ports, so if i use one for ssd boot drive, and then im left with 3 x sata 6 ports and another 4 x sata 3 ports to raid on? how does this work? any point in getting the sata 6 drives as one would be stripped with a sata 6 drive plugged into a sata 3 port (this was my reasoning behind using 3 small sata 6 ssd's plugged to the sata 6 ports and rest of sata 3 ports as storage and backups!
confused lol!! I just want the overclocked sandybridge system with decent gpu card, as much ram as possible at present, but im thinking my bottleneck will be in the HDD config! any suggestions are much appreicated! im not that techy so whilst have read all the articles am more confused now (plus normally a mac user, so its out of the box configuration usually!) for what its worth looking to purchase something from scan uk in terms of parts! total build cost including a reasonable screen £2,000
many thanks

You have a limited budget, especially in the UK, but then don't we all?
Going for the 980X will triple the cost of the CPU, but even when editing AVCHD material the gains are not sizable enough IMO to justify that cost differential. Add to that you will need 24 GB instead of 16 GB and that carries an additional price tag. Both factors will easily move you out of budget range if you want to have a number of disks and possibly a raid controller.
Did you read my article To Raid or not to Raid, that is the question. It can be found under the Overview tab at the top of the page? (Currently responding from abroad on my notebook and not having the bookmarks available for easy linking). http://forums.adobe.com/thread/525263
With media and projects I would advise against a raid0, because of the lack of redundancy. For pagefile, media cache and previews (scratch disks) raid0 is quite OK. They will be recreated if needed. The performance gain from a raid0 for media and projects over a parity raid is easily offset by the time spent on making backups. For parity raids do not use WD Caviar Blacks, but look at the Hitachi 7K3000 line of disks.
The question of Sandy Bridge versus the old X58 platform is essentially one of 'which limitations are acceptable to me'.
The Sandy Bridge is a great processor and at least the equal to the old i7-9xx quad cores. However, the platform, the chipset, has its shortcomings in terms of PCIe lanes. Whether that is relevant to you, only you can decide. But hey, we would be in serious trouble if Intel did not manage some progress in two years time from the i7-920 to the i7-2600K. So of course the i7-2600K shows much more potential than the almost retired 920, it is the chipset for the Sandy Bridge that is 'flawed' in comparison to the X58, but that is no surprise, since the Sandy Bridge is a 'middle-of-the-road' platform and the X58 was a 'high performance' platform.
BFTB-wise I think that within your budget limits, you should look at the i7-2600K, but with the best disk setup you can afford.

MSI Neo-FIS2R build questions! & SATA RAID questions!

This is going to sound like a stupid question. And I'm not even sure that I know what I am asking.
I've built two computers so far. One with an MSI K7N2G-L and another with an MSI K7N2G-ILSR. Both nForce2 motherboards with AMD processors.
Here's what I'm getting at... I'm planning on building a new machine with either the Abit IC7-G or the MSI Neo-FIS2R (both 875P boards obviously).
Now, when I built the two nForce2 boards it was really easy. I put all of the components together, turned on the machine, the bios auto enabled settings, I put the windows xp pro cd in the cd drive and formatted the hard drive for NTFS, I then installed the OS and booted the system! Then I intstalled the drivers fromt the MSI CD. Ran Live BIOS and flashed to the most current motherboard BIOS. SIMPLE! Everything worked fine.
Here's my question. For the 875P system will everything pretty much happen the same way? Or do I need to do additional things? One of my main concerns (especially if I go with the Abit IC7-G over the MSI) is flashing the bios. Do I need a floppy drive or something? I've never flashed a BIOS outside of the Live BIOS utility. I don't want to put a floppy drive in my system! What are my options here?
Not that I want to do it, but if I needed to (say with the Abit board) HOW DO I FLASH THE BIOS WITHOUT USING THE LIVE BIOS UTILTY?
Bottom line is, I'm building this system for someone else and I want it all to be a painless experience (especially if they are looking over my shoulder).
One final question. This may sound even more stupid than the first question. I'm purchasing SATA drives ONLY. I'm not purchasing any IDE drives. So, here's my question...Can I boot from a SATA drive? What if it's in RAID 0? From the posts in the forums it appears that the SATA and RAID on these 875P motherboards either doesn't work or isn't very reliable (may potentially lose data). IS THIS AT ALL TRUE?! I'm stupid when it comes to RAID and SATA. Any help in this department would be appreciated.
Thanks.

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Originally posted by ZippyGaloo
1. If I only install one SATA drive I have to set it up as a RAID anyway right? Wrong?
2. If I install two SATA drives I have to set it up as a RAID as well right? Wrong?
3. If I install two SATA drives and set up a RAID
(either 0 or 1) which drive does the OS go on?
I have never built a raid array (as yet) and have never owned a SATA disk (as yet), but from what I have read...
RAID is a method of connecting several disks together so they perform as a single disk. That means, in response to your points above:
1) If you install only one drive (SATA or not), it will not be set up as RAID.
2) If you install two SATA drives, you have the option of using them as two individual drives OR setting them up in a RAID 0 or 1 configuration.
3) Ok, RAID 0 is known as "striping" - this method makes two disks look like one big disk, that works twice as fast as the individual drives. Every time the PC writes data to the drive, it sends the first bit of data to drive 1, the second to drive 2, then drive 1 again etc etc. This speeds up the disk read/write time, as the two disks can both work simultaneously. To the OS though, the two drives appear as one. The OS will be spread across both disks - it needs both of them connected to run, take either disk out and you'll be left with half an OS (that obviously won't work)
With RAID 1 (known as "mirroring"), you still use two disks. You will only have a useable capacity of the smallest disk however (using two 40gb drives only gives you a total of 40gb of space. with RAID 0, two 40gb disks will make one big one - nearly 80gb large {I think the RAID system itself uses a bit of space}). The advantage with mirroring, is the second disk holds an exact copy of the first. If one disk goes bang, you have a duplicate copy on the second - so, to answer your point above, the OS will reside on both disks.
To summarize, RAID 0 is good for increasing speed; RAID 1 is good for increasing protection of your data as you have two copies incase a drive gives up. To get the best of both worlds you need RAID 0+1 (this method needs 4 disks though, 2 striped - then 2 mirroring the striped).
There is a lot to RAID - just search the net for some manuals if you're interested, hope this gives you an idea though (providing I've got it right!)

Editing system build questions

Hi everyone,
I'm building a computer to use for video editing and graphic design. I'm a moderate level user of Adobe's CS5 package...mainly Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator. I have some hardware questions that I was hoping to run by those who know more than me:
1) Processor: do you prefer the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T or the Intel i7-930 chip?
2) OS: Can Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit work, or should I upgrade to Windows 7 Professional 64-bit?
3) Hard drive configuration: I'm a bit confused about how to configure my hard drives for this system. I'm thinking of purchasing three 1Tb 7200 RPM SATA hard drives. Which of these options would be preferred, or do you suggest another alternative?:
Option 1:
hard drive #1: OS and programs
hard drive #2: media and project files
hard drive #3: scratch disc and export destination
Option 2:
hard drive #1: OS and programs
hard drives #2 and #3: configured as RAID 0 and containing all the media, project files, scratch disc and exports
Thanks in advance for the help!
Mike

You also need to consider motherboard brand and model, amount of memory, size of power supply, cpu cooling and case
Asus P6 is used a lot... the exact model will depend on just what features you need
12Gig memory is good, since 24Gig is still very expensive
If you are going to use RAID with several drives, a 1000watt power supply, otherwise an 850watt should do
Even if you are not going to overclock, get a good cpu cooler so your Intel chip will last longer
A case with lots of cooling is required
Right now, the graphics card most often recommended is the nVidia GTX 470

New Build Questions

Hello everyone, thanks for answering questions and providing information so far. My first build has been pretty smooth. I installed all the hardware and software without any issues. However I"m new to Windows, so I'm used to slightly different approach or applications or tools are in a different location that are not so easy to find at times.
Windows is up and running smooth, temps are all good, quiet, no problems upgrading, no hangups or crashes, which is great for one afternoon.
1) I'm not sure if I configured my disk the right way when installing Windows. I'm used to doing this on a Mac that has a different approach. So, I booted to the Windows optical drive and went to install. I had to format the disk and it wouldn't let me continue unless I agreed to let Widnows make a partition if necessary so I only formatted one disk at the time, out of 6 that I installed. So, after install, I went back to Administrative tools to go back and format the rest of the 5 disk. First the Computer Management tool is hard to find in System and Security in Control Pannel. In Mac it's right there in an easy to find file called Utilites and Disk Utilities. So anyway in Disk Management I was able to format the rest of the disk and give them letters. I noticed my 6 disk are called Disk 0-5, so Disk 0 is the first disk, disk one is second disk. I hope that is ok. Also noticed that my C: drive is Disk 4 and had (Healthy, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition.) So I suppose this is ok? I'm stumped as to what a Crash Dump is and how or why it got there? hmmm
Then drive 0 which is first disk and the one I remember formatting and installed the OS only had 100 MB that was "System Reserved" (System, Active, Primary)
I gave drive 0 the last letter I: and expaned the space from the 100 MB to format the entire drive.
However, I'm not sure what is going on here as I'm unfamaliar with this approach.
I created my back up location to a single disk H: the #5 disk and backud up and created disk image.
So is this all screwed up or what? I'm used to the OS being on one disk and not sure which one that is and what happend. I'm also experienced with Mac back up and disk imaging applications, Carbon Copy Cloner, Super Duper for when I need to copy over the entire contents of an OS disk to a new disk.
It's great that I could build this entire computer from scratch and have it up and running smooth. So, I know this must be very basic but was hoping someone might explain to me how I should go about setting up my harddrives. What kind of formatting, should I zero them out, what back up or disk image works if I need to reformat the drives and move OS and program files to another disk without having to start over with install disk.
Also, I only see 16 GB of Ram instead of 24 in the Tools about the computer. Does it need to index? Do I need more drivers for Asus Rampage?
thanks!

"Also, I only see 16 GB of Ram instead of 24 in the Tools about the computer. Does it need to index? Do I need more drivers for Asus Rampage?"
This means your memory, Uncore, QPI, and voltage are likely not setup right in the bios.
The 100mb partition is the BCD location for windows boot manager and that is on another disk besides the OS drive which is not recommended.
Eric
ADK

Laptop Screen, Question, Help

im not quite sure how to explain it or word my problem, but as you can see from the picture, my screen is really bright and bad quality, im not sure how i did it and i dont know how to change it back. does anyone know? it would help a lot. thank you

instead of taking a screenshot a picture taken from camera would have helped better. however, may i know the model number of the laptop please...
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Application builder questions

Hi,
I have an application that I want to make a stand-alone executable. I have installed application builder and almost got it the way I want.
I first create an application, which works fine. But I have some questions regarding the installer.
1. I want the installer to be as small as possible.
2. I want the application.exe file included in the same directory as the setup.exe file.
3. Which additional installers do I have to include? My application communicates with a module by using Modbus libraries (VISA). Do I need LV realtime and VISA runtime or others?
BTW. I use LV 8.0
-Christian

Hi Christian
I also had some questions concerning the application builder.
Just have a look at the thread I started - maybe you find some informations helpful to you.
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=164285&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
Thomas
Using LV8.0
Don't be afraid to rate a good answer...

Sysprep + BSOD with Laptop Builds

Hello All - maybe I'm missing something here, but to keep it simple my issue is the following:
I've got approx 20 Laptops to deploy with a new Base Windows 7 x64 Ent Edition with Office / In house applications.
I just completed the same setup with the desktop - ie - build a base PC - install all apps / updates - and ran a simple sysprep /oobe /generalize. This all worked fine, I then copied the install.wim file to my distribution USB stick and built the 40+
desktop - no problems.
However, for our laptops Lenovo X230 - I run the same process, install Windows / Office / In House Apps / patches etc - run sysprep /oobe /generalize - whenever the "base" laptop reboots - BSOD, also the install.wim file used on anyother Lenovo's
- same thing BSOD.
The BSOD occurs when loading the disk.sys driver - so the disk driver appears to be the issue here - but how to fix? The Windows repair does not work, BIOS for the controller is set to AHCI (I've tried both setting to Compatability) and I'm at
a complete loss.
Does anyone have any ideas what I could try?
Regards
Simon

Hello, it looks like the issue is with the Ericsson H5321gw driver.
I ran a sysprep after each driver install from device manager (using the SCCM Drivers) and the last device I installed - the H5321gw caused the BSOD. The driver for this was not available on the SCCM Drivers - it was downloaded directly from Lenovo.
I suppose the work-around will be:
- New build / Install all drivers for device manager from the SCCM set / WSUS / Application Install / Sysprep
The Ericsson drivers will need to be manually added at the end (unless I can find an alternative H321GW driver for SCCM)?
Device order install:
Network Driver - Good
Base System Device – Ricoh PCIe SDXC / MMC Host Controller – Good
Bio Metric Driver – Good
Network Controller – Good
PCI Simple Communications Controller – Good
SM Bus Controller – Good
Unknown Device – Lenovo PM Device
Ericsson H5321gw - Failed
Simon

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