Forum: Hardware & Tech Talk

Hi guys I'm looking to get a Intel Core i7 3820 S 2011, Sandy Bridge-E with the limited budget I have. I have 2 mother boards in mind at the moment ASRock X79 Extreme4 or ASRock X79 Extreme7, which are both similar anyways. The thing is are they good mobos? Are they suitable for 3D work using...

Selling 4 x Dell Precision T3500's. Specs: Quad core Xeon 2.8 GHz, Quadro FX1800 graphics card, 2TB Hard Drive, Vista Business OS (64 bit or 32 bit), 6GB of RAM (triplets--additional triple slot open), 16X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write, 2 years of original warranty (transferrable). $600 each....

Hi! The place I'm working in are thinking of getting a new monitor for grading (we are a small place, getting bigger and bigger), but we have a hard time figuring out which or what kind of monitor. One guy has searched some and got confused^^ I've also made a short search and found this...

Hi everybody, I will have to work with Alexa footages, full HD codex apple prores. Those footages are really bright and I wonder how to integrate 3D animations or 3D backgrounds from linear rendering of mental Ray xsi (dark one). In digital fusion, we'll have a LUT , so we could see the final...

budget: $2000 Need for: -nuke -houdini -real Flow -Fume

hi guys, i suppose many of you guys have heard about the those two DSLR, so i have searched in many forums trying to find winch one is the best for shooting video ,cause basically i will be shooting a lot of video... some places they say that the 600d(t3i) its better cause its cheaper and in has...

I've heard that a lot of companies use Linux, I was just curious who uses what distro?

Hello ppl, this is my first thread, hope i can help in future with my small knowledge, this time i would like some recommendations about which motherboard should i get cuz im about to build a new video editing machine, but im some kinda undecided since there are many propects. thanks a lot

Hi, I planning one pc for using ae these following are configuration please suggest me is it right? 1) 890 gigabyte Motherboard 2) x6 AMD processor 3) 2 TB Hardisk 4) 16 GB Ram DDR-3 5) Cool Master SMPS 6) avidia 512mb graphic card

I will be running Houdini,3D Studio Max, and Maya I need help picking out the best of the best computer components for a multi cpu rig. I want it to be fast,and I want to have great rendering results. How big of a rig can i get? and yes, the computer is going to get built from the ground up. all...

Hi guys, I have a mac pro 2008 with 2x2.8GHz quad core cpu and 10 GB RAM. I mainly use Nuke on my machine and I'd like to make it faster. Not hunting for mindblowing speed, just have a little extra money, I'd like to spend wisely. A raid card would be great, but I doubt if it worth it's...

Okey, i need some help here! I search all over the Internet an still have no clue. I had booked a “EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD 2560MB PhysX” but now they say it would take three weeks to get them to the store. So i stardet too look around an found som information that this card may not be suitable...

I am using EYEON FUSION and have a geforce g210 graphics card with the latest drivers. However I drag a loader node into the workspace and then import or try to an avi file....I have tried multiple avi files and mov files and yet it "loads" i get the amount of frames information and timebar but no...

A friends Genius WizardPen 5x4 tablet, after working fine suddenly started with weird behavior: As i start bringing the pen towards the top edge, at c.a. 2-2.5cm it jumps at the top of the screen. And same when going down from the top: the cursor goes for awhile and then jumps that upper...

Hi guys! Im upgrading some stuff at work and need some advice. I have two mac Pros one from 2008 3,2 ghz and one from 2009. I am getting more RAM and a new graphics card. But just for one of them however I dont know which one that has the best processor. Ill be using the adobe suit and...

Dear All, Fox Render Farm is a self-service render farm based on cloud-computing technology. We support rendering scenes in 3dsMax and Maya and rendering with Mental Ray, Vray, Final Render and many other engines. Fox Render Farm Facts: a) Over 300...

Oh boy, so I have had a fun weekend regarding getting set up with 3D at home... So I have a somewhat old desktop with an NVidia GeForce GT 240 in it, by no means a top of the line card, but it specifically states "3D Vision ready" So I buy the 120Hz monitor, and the 3D vision kit from NVidia,...

I have a MacPro 3,1 with a geforce 8800GT in it...the card is starting to show its age. The only upgrade cards Apple has available is the GT120 which is worse than what I have, the ATI 5770 which is a lot better, and the ATI 5870 which is a LOT LOT better. Anyone have any of these cards that...

we want to to convert an quicktime ( animation codec, no audio) into the following: Final Delivery Video Format & Illustrations - MPEG2, 1920x1080px - 50p - I-Frame only - HP@HI - CBR

Howdy, I'm looking to upgrade my internal HDD in my Macbook Pro and am wondering if anyone could recommend any serious, reliable work horses from experience? My current internal is a 5,400rpm 320GB. I'm looking at getting a 7,200rpm, hopefully 750GB or there abouts. I've looked at the...

So I use nuke and AE/3d rendering programs a lot and I am just about to reinstall my software because i got a new crucial m4. I know in an ideal world you should be running your OS on one drive, your software on another, be reading input from another, and outputting to another. With these drives...

I need a render computer for my fluid simulation (and other renders) what is the most important thing in rendering? the CPU? GPU? RAM? i use Maya 2012 and Realflow 2012, i thought about the mac mini server, what do you think? you can give me cheap setup based on linux (fedora) for my needs...