i was trying to keep it reasonable. and i what i specced isn't that far off, actually.

i like the CPU's i picked better, for example. 7.2GT/s and 15mb cache.


glen, i just noticed it doesn't have any CPU coolers. my bad.

hardware RAM disk. i hadn't thought of that. let me research a bit.

oh, follow the link.... duh!

Whoops. I missed a couple of items when I added it up. Still Under 5K is amazing.

My first work computer was a 6 Mhz Genuine IBM AT with 32 Meg hard drive & 2 megs of RAM. It cost the boss a cool 5 grand. It came with DOS 3.0. We added a second graphs card to it had one color display and one orange text on black background display. We connected it to a film recorder through a GPIB board. We ran a program from Zenographs called Mirage that allowed us to do the graphics and send the file to a film recorder. We could make a 35mm slide and we charged 30 to 70 bucks per slide. We had customers standing in line to buy them. The film recorder and computer and software cost just over 35K. That was in 1986.

Powerpoint and video projectors killed the market for slides.

you can't beat the build quality of a dedicated workstation or the inherent performance of the components, it will be faster then a 4 grand custom pc... Those things are designed with much care to go like stink, and to do it reliably, 24/7...years on end.

Sure, some can do similar things cheaper, but there will always be a drawback somewhere..
If it's business critical, then you want it to work reliably..
And you want to have reliable supply of spare parts to fix any possible hardware failure without guessing if the replacement part will require some kind of effort to get going..

not worth it:

ACard's ANS-9010 Serial ATA RAM disk - The Tech Report - Page 4

no speed gain to speak of with video editing.

That is a pure fantasy wet dream machine. We will be adding in a couple of high end video monitors. I am guessing we will spend 5 to 7 grand to get it finished. It will have just the one program loaded on it.

I see that Windows server can run up to 2 TB of ram. That would be expensive!

you have much more faith in branded products than i, stijn. which is fine. call it a shortcoming on my part.

adding video card(s) will be necessary, in that case, glen. for higher end ones, figure $500 to $1K each.

My 2TB NAS is also my wireless router. Have another 2TB on my fileserver. 250 Gig on my laptop is not enough drive space for me.

We have 4 NAS RAIDS. We don't do mission critical 100% up time stuff. We just need a BIG bucket to store digital files on long term. We have 36 TB of storage right now.

mmm..... 36TB of storage. that is a LOT of music!

Bet I can fill it.

Got another gig on Saturday. Time to try and break things up on the camera.....

Fixed it for ya
Evening Y'all

Oh it amazing how fast we fill up a few TB of storage. We work at deleting all unnecessary files.

(Very green text) We don't store the porn, just download it fresh. (Very green text)

Ummmmmmmmmmm
no comment. :)

One of my friends loves to argue to point that the Internet, computers, DVD players and recorders, high definition are invented and improved only because of porn.

Interesting way of looking at it but I would tend to think otherwise

Morning

Did I hear someone say porn?

TGIF
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1357257722.jpg

Have a look at HP Z820's. You can customise them. I use a Z600 at work, it screams along.

HP Z820 Workstation - HP Z820 Workstations

That has to be art. ;)