ronniebee
12-09-2007, 05:01 AM
Hi Guys Heres an update from my pinnacle forum.
I Grew tired of struggling with my 8 year old Dell, so I decided to go BAREBONES, and build myself the ultimate system. I had already purchased a new camera, Panasonic SDR-200H 3CCD, USB 2.0 with a 30GB HD. Here's the system I built to go with it.
My new system THE QUEEN BEE
for [Multimedia] DVD Movie Studio / Sound Recording Studio / and a few Games
[*mm] means Installed by Magic Micro: www.magicmicro.com [Click on barebones]
[*egg] means purchased from Newegg
[*old] means transferred from Old System
BB-Case: APEVIA (ASPIRE) X-Cruiser Black w/Glass Window & 2 [120mm] and 3, [80*mm] computer controlled fans w/ sound/speed/temp front gauges.
10 Drive Bays, [4 x 5.25] & [2 x 3.5] External + [4 x 3.5] internal [*mm]
Motherboard - ASUS 775 P5Ne SLI Nvidia 650 CORE 2 Dual memory parallel processing slots 8GB capacity, [4GB SDR2 800mhz installed, [2GB per channel], Plus 2 16 Channel Pci-Express slots, a 1 channel PCI express slot, and 3 reg pci expansion slots. Accomodates 2 PATA UIDE and 4 SATA RAID drives.[*mm] Presently has 2 500GB WD Drives in 1-TB stripe configuration.
Power Supply - Powerworks 650W Titanium ex-quiet SLI [*mm]
CPU - Intel P4-QUAD-CORE Q6600 2.4GHZ 8MB 1066FSB, 64 bit Dual Processors, [2 cores per channel] w/Socket Fan.[*mm]
Ram - DDR2 Kit = 4GB PC6400/800mhz (4PC X 1GB) = 2 Dual Channels 2GB ea. [*mm]
Graphics Card - 1 EVGA Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB DDR3 PCI-Express SLI [*egg]
(I may buy another one of these for 2nd PCI express slot if needed.)
Hard Drives - 2 Western Digital 500GB 7200rpm 3.0GB tr SATA. [*egg]
Floppy Dr - 1, [144mb] 3˝ inch [*mm]
DVD RAM Drives - 3 LG 20X-w 40x-r DVD±R Super Multi DVD Burner Black ATAPI / E-IDE Model GSA-H55NK - OEM [2 internal and 1 External] [*old]. [Best I’ve found; does everything DVD and CD, Reads at 40X, and Burns/Re-Burns at 20X/18X, use CDs & DVDs like Floppies. Purchased From Newegg].
(Blu ray HD/DVD is avail @ $299.00 from Newegg). I will get into HD movies later.
[All optical drives Required Nero INCD to work in my old Dell, I have Nero full suite]. (Windows-XP64 can handle them on its own without INCD).
Operating System - Microsoft Windows XP PRO 64 bit + updates for 64bit machine. [Purchased from *mm]
Monitors - LG 22-inch Flatron LCD Monitor .2 MS response (from Old sys) also have
ACER 22-inch LCD flat screen Monitor .5 ms response (in for warranty repairs). [This will remain with the old Dell, which is now my wife's system.]
Sound RealTec 64bit HB Surround Sound with 5 configurable i/o Jacks. Each individual Jack can be software controlled to be whatever you want, input or output. [up to 96000 khrz - Sounds Awesome].
My present setup is:
[Rear-panel] 1-front pair, 2-Rear pair 3, sub-woofer.
[Front panel] 4-upper, line-in from mixer - 5-Lower line-out to mixer.
Powered by Altec Lansing 5.1 Surround Sound System
Mouse - MS Optical Trackball W/Wheel & Fwd/Back Internet switches.
Net Card - 1GB Lan built in to Mother Board [*mm]
Presently have Comcast High Speed Internet. @ up to 1000 bps via Linksys 4 port router. I probably will network to old system too.
Printers: 1. Epson R-200 for printing diskfaces and wrap covers, 2. Lexmark Z1300 for normal printing. [old]
System Cost
Bare Bones + all [*mm] Above ($967.00 + S&H $36.65) = $1003.65
New Egg 2 SATA Drives $208.00 Video Card $309.00 = $517.00
Total Cost for new components only = $1520.00
*Had to add a new Epson 350 Scanner for $119.00 bring cost up to $1639.00
Considering the difference in cost of a new DELL XPS (less monitor) with the same spec, this a very affordable price for me, and this system really kicks major A.
My Studio 11.1.1 Ultimate loves this system and runs faster than greased lightning; the 11.1.1 patch seems to have solved a lot of my problems. I spent about 4 hours editing my latest movie last weekend, and haven't had a problem yet. I will be sure an report it if I do.
Any questions, fire away, and I will try to answer them.
Ronnie Bee
PS: Although Magic Micro had a few bad reviews, they did an excellent job for me. All equipment used was O.E.M. and it was configured exactly the way I ask them to, I even called back for some re-config after purchase and there was no problem getting what I wanted. So I give them 5 stars from my experience.
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Ronnie Bee: Studio 11.1.1 - ULTIMATE.
Equip: Pana PV-DV800 DV Tape Fwire; Pana SDR-H200 3CCD USB Camera. 30gb HDD
Cust Sys: ASUS/Nvidia, P5E SLI CPU 4.2 dual chan quad core, 1-TB HD Sata Raid, 4MB dual chan 800mhz DDR2 Mem. LG 22" mon .2 ms resp time.
I Grew tired of struggling with my 8 year old Dell, so I decided to go BAREBONES, and build myself the ultimate system. I had already purchased a new camera, Panasonic SDR-200H 3CCD, USB 2.0 with a 30GB HD. Here's the system I built to go with it.
My new system THE QUEEN BEE
for [Multimedia] DVD Movie Studio / Sound Recording Studio / and a few Games
[*mm] means Installed by Magic Micro: www.magicmicro.com [Click on barebones]
[*egg] means purchased from Newegg
[*old] means transferred from Old System
BB-Case: APEVIA (ASPIRE) X-Cruiser Black w/Glass Window & 2 [120mm] and 3, [80*mm] computer controlled fans w/ sound/speed/temp front gauges.
10 Drive Bays, [4 x 5.25] & [2 x 3.5] External + [4 x 3.5] internal [*mm]
Motherboard - ASUS 775 P5Ne SLI Nvidia 650 CORE 2 Dual memory parallel processing slots 8GB capacity, [4GB SDR2 800mhz installed, [2GB per channel], Plus 2 16 Channel Pci-Express slots, a 1 channel PCI express slot, and 3 reg pci expansion slots. Accomodates 2 PATA UIDE and 4 SATA RAID drives.[*mm] Presently has 2 500GB WD Drives in 1-TB stripe configuration.
Power Supply - Powerworks 650W Titanium ex-quiet SLI [*mm]
CPU - Intel P4-QUAD-CORE Q6600 2.4GHZ 8MB 1066FSB, 64 bit Dual Processors, [2 cores per channel] w/Socket Fan.[*mm]
Ram - DDR2 Kit = 4GB PC6400/800mhz (4PC X 1GB) = 2 Dual Channels 2GB ea. [*mm]
Graphics Card - 1 EVGA Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB DDR3 PCI-Express SLI [*egg]
(I may buy another one of these for 2nd PCI express slot if needed.)
Hard Drives - 2 Western Digital 500GB 7200rpm 3.0GB tr SATA. [*egg]
Floppy Dr - 1, [144mb] 3˝ inch [*mm]
DVD RAM Drives - 3 LG 20X-w 40x-r DVD±R Super Multi DVD Burner Black ATAPI / E-IDE Model GSA-H55NK - OEM [2 internal and 1 External] [*old]. [Best I’ve found; does everything DVD and CD, Reads at 40X, and Burns/Re-Burns at 20X/18X, use CDs & DVDs like Floppies. Purchased From Newegg].
(Blu ray HD/DVD is avail @ $299.00 from Newegg). I will get into HD movies later.
[All optical drives Required Nero INCD to work in my old Dell, I have Nero full suite]. (Windows-XP64 can handle them on its own without INCD).
Operating System - Microsoft Windows XP PRO 64 bit + updates for 64bit machine. [Purchased from *mm]
Monitors - LG 22-inch Flatron LCD Monitor .2 MS response (from Old sys) also have
ACER 22-inch LCD flat screen Monitor .5 ms response (in for warranty repairs). [This will remain with the old Dell, which is now my wife's system.]
Sound RealTec 64bit HB Surround Sound with 5 configurable i/o Jacks. Each individual Jack can be software controlled to be whatever you want, input or output. [up to 96000 khrz - Sounds Awesome].
My present setup is:
[Rear-panel] 1-front pair, 2-Rear pair 3, sub-woofer.
[Front panel] 4-upper, line-in from mixer - 5-Lower line-out to mixer.
Powered by Altec Lansing 5.1 Surround Sound System
Mouse - MS Optical Trackball W/Wheel & Fwd/Back Internet switches.
Net Card - 1GB Lan built in to Mother Board [*mm]
Presently have Comcast High Speed Internet. @ up to 1000 bps via Linksys 4 port router. I probably will network to old system too.
Printers: 1. Epson R-200 for printing diskfaces and wrap covers, 2. Lexmark Z1300 for normal printing. [old]
System Cost
Bare Bones + all [*mm] Above ($967.00 + S&H $36.65) = $1003.65
New Egg 2 SATA Drives $208.00 Video Card $309.00 = $517.00
Total Cost for new components only = $1520.00
*Had to add a new Epson 350 Scanner for $119.00 bring cost up to $1639.00
Considering the difference in cost of a new DELL XPS (less monitor) with the same spec, this a very affordable price for me, and this system really kicks major A.
My Studio 11.1.1 Ultimate loves this system and runs faster than greased lightning; the 11.1.1 patch seems to have solved a lot of my problems. I spent about 4 hours editing my latest movie last weekend, and haven't had a problem yet. I will be sure an report it if I do.
Any questions, fire away, and I will try to answer them.
Ronnie Bee
PS: Although Magic Micro had a few bad reviews, they did an excellent job for me. All equipment used was O.E.M. and it was configured exactly the way I ask them to, I even called back for some re-config after purchase and there was no problem getting what I wanted. So I give them 5 stars from my experience.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ronnie Bee: Studio 11.1.1 - ULTIMATE.
Equip: Pana PV-DV800 DV Tape Fwire; Pana SDR-H200 3CCD USB Camera. 30gb HDD
Cust Sys: ASUS/Nvidia, P5E SLI CPU 4.2 dual chan quad core, 1-TB HD Sata Raid, 4MB dual chan 800mhz DDR2 Mem. LG 22" mon .2 ms resp time.