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  • here is a high spec computer I built

    Posted by Jason Xuereb on January 19, 2010 at 1:31 am

    Just wanted to let you guys know about a PC I built over Christmas. It munches through all our graphic work.

    Intel Core i7-920
    2 x OCZ Vertex Series 60GB 2.5" SSD SATA 3Gbs
    Corsair DDR3 12GB PC-12800/1600 (6x XMS3 2GB) HX3X12G1600C9 Ram
    Asus P6T-SE Intel Mainboard – 6x DDR3 / 6x Sata Raid / 1 x IDE / Gigabit Lan / LGA 1366
    Asus ATI EAH5750-2DIS-1GD5 RADEON 5750, 1G, DDR5, PCIE2.0, 2xDVI, HDCP, HDMI, DX11, ATX, 128bit
    Antec Sonata III 500 – Black Super Quiet ATX Tower Case (500W)
    Samsung 24" 2443BW+ BLACK LCD – 5MS / WUXGA 1920X1200 / D-SUB / DVI
    Windws 7 Professional OEM
    LG DVD Burner

    The key features are the SSD in Raid 0 and the amount of ram in triple channel. This thing flies. Also redundancy doesn’t matter. All our work is stored on a network. All our email is on cloud computing. Our machines just run software and local files were editing on.

    Dave Rowland replied 14 years, 2 months ago 6 Members · 14 Replies
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  • Chris Wool

    Member
    January 19, 2010 at 9:49 am

    sounds nice 😀

    only one thing missing second monitor 😉

    chris

  • Jason Xuereb

    Member
    January 19, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Trying to talk the boss into a second 24". Video card supports tripple monitors 🙂

    But SSD is the way to go. Fast and silent.

    Even variable data jobs that would crash or cause memory problems are no longer an issue.

  • Dave Rowland

    Member
    January 19, 2010 at 11:13 am

    Nice Jason

    When I looked at SSD before, I was put off with the writing times as its slow and reading was as lightening, this was months back.

    Are you storing to local drive at all?

    What software are you running? my worry was with corel draw it would not use quad core and just use the single core unlike Adobe.

    The cloud, is this using something like an Exchange email provider?
    I have a 26GB exchange server, yikes!

  • David Lowery

    Member
    January 19, 2010 at 11:22 am
    quote Jason Xuereb:

    Just wanted to let you guys know about a PC I built over Christmas. It munches through all our graphic work.

    Intel Core i7-920
    2 x OCZ Vertex Series 60GB 2.5″ SSD SATA 3Gbs
    Corsair DDR3 12GB PC-12800/1600 (6x XMS3 2GB) HX3X12G1600C9 Ram
    Asus P6T-SE Intel Mainboard – 6x DDR3 / 6x Sata Raid / 1 x IDE / Gigabit Lan / LGA 1366
    Asus ATI EAH5750-2DIS-1GD5 RADEON 5750, 1G, DDR5, PCIE2.0, 2xDVI, HDCP, HDMI, DX11, ATX, 128bit
    Antec Sonata III 500 – Black Super Quiet ATX Tower Case (500W)
    Samsung 24″ 2443BW+ BLACK LCD – 5MS / WUXGA 1920X1200 / D-SUB / DVI
    Windws 7 Professional OEM
    LG DVD Burner

    The key features are the SSD in Raid 0 and the amount of ram in triple channel. This thing flies. Also redundancy doesn’t matter. All our work is stored on a network. All our email is on cloud computing. Our machines just run software and local files were editing on.

    quote Dave Rowland:

    Nice Jason

    When I looked at SSD before, I was put off with the writing times as its slow and reading was as lightening, this was months back.

    Are you storing to local drive at all?

    What software are you running? my worry was with corel draw it would not use quad core and just use the single core unlike Adobe.

    The cloud, is this using something like an Exchange email provider?
    I have a 26GB exchange server, yikes!

    WOT! 😮 🙄 (spin)

  • Dave Rowland

    Member
    January 19, 2010 at 11:33 am

    Mr Lowery, Jason is sitting in front of a fresh out of the factory race car! What I am interested to know if its an automatic or a manual and if a roll cage was just talk or really does work?

  • David Lowery

    Member
    January 19, 2010 at 11:35 am
    quote Dave Rowland:

    Mr Lowery, Jason is sitting in front of a fresh out of the factory race car! What I am interested to know if its an automatic or a manual and if a roll cage was just talk or really does work?

    And I just want to know WTF you are both talking about :lol1:

    I got a quad core thingy from Staples on Monday :lol1:

  • Jason Xuereb

    Member
    January 19, 2010 at 11:49 am
    quote Dave Rowland:

    Nice Jason

    When I looked at SSD before, I was put off with the writing times as its slow and reading was as lightening, this was months back.

    Are you storing to local drive at all?

    What software are you running? my worry was with corel draw it would not use quad core and just use the single core unlike Adobe.

    The cloud, is this using something like an Exchange email provider?
    I have a 26GB exchange server, yikes!

    Hey Dave,

    We generally copy large files off the network to the local machine work on them and then copy them back.

    I’m not sure of the specs of the write speeds but the whole system is heaps faster then any other raid 0 setup I’ve used before. I’ve never used Scsi though just normal SATA drives.

    We use adobe illustrator and photoshop.

    We use google business services for our email and share docs now. So they manage their own cloud and we utilise it. Its great for having our email and company docs available to any computer and device.

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    January 19, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    how fast is something before it’s irrellevent? i’m not knocking what you’ve built at all btw.

    I have a gigabyte P35C-DS3r mother board, 3 gig ram (only two used on xp i think though), intel q6600 quad core processor, n-videa 9600 grafix with 1gig dedicated ram and up until a couple of weeks back it was running two 250gig drives in mirror raid. had it over a year now i think.

    from switching on to having corel open or browsing the net was around 20-30 seconds, when new it was 15-20secs, since one hard drive went down i’ve had raid disabled and the new grafix card installed, i can honestly see not difference in start up speeds or use. corel is open and asking which file to open within about 3 seconds of clicking it, complex jobs which took my old 512mb ram / 1800 intel centrino several nailbiting minutes is now dones in a few seconds, etc.

    is the ssd really so much quicker?

    i was looking into the ssd drives for my empeg car mp3 players as i need to upgrade the full up 30gig 2.5 drives, wasn’t sure it was worth it, persuade me!

    Hugh

  • Jason Xuereb

    Member
    January 19, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    Not sure what work you do Hugh or how many jobs you process a day. But if I’m waiting 10 minutes for a file to save out or convert to PDF and were doing 10-20 files a day thats alot of time.

    If I can get that down to 2-5 minutes I’m saving alot of time.

    Before my variable data jobs were a pain could take 2 hours to do. I can do them in 15 minutes now.

    Alot of my big files can be 500mb to 1gb in size.

  • Jason Xuereb

    Member
    January 19, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    PS my old machine im comparing to is a quad core 6600 4gb ram 2 SATA in raid 0 so it wasnt a slouch either. This new PC tears the pants off the old one. Running windows 7 too.

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    January 20, 2010 at 9:36 am
    quote Jason Xuereb:

    Not sure what work you do Hugh or how many jobs you process a day. But if I’m waiting 10 minutes for a file to save out or convert to PDF and were doing 10-20 files a day thats alot of time.

    If I can get that down to 2-5 minutes I’m saving alot of time.

    Before my variable data jobs were a pain could take 2 hours to do. I can do them in 15 minutes now.

    Alot of my big files can be 500mb to 1gb in size.

    right, i never gave much thought to the fact you guys do a lot of print, i don’t often do printed stuff, even less with effects on it so rarely handle large files, about 100mb is my biggest file to date (unless i try to save as ai and it just makes up the biggest No of mb it can possibly think of!).

    thanks for the explanation.

    Hugh

  • Dave Rowland

    Member
    January 20, 2010 at 9:54 am

    excellent Jason…
    although (and I hear JC laughing), I have been eyeing up the Mac to take over but Corel Draw is the problem, but I can emulate Corel using VMware Fusion for small money and can have Corel within a window on a Mac!! I then cross-transfer my adobe license to Mac.

    I am quite keen on Apple monitors and I have seen the speeds when working with Photoshop on the mac, its staggering from what I have seen and colour management is much nicer on a mac. (Have you picked yourself up yet JC? you need a better chair)

    There is also a graphics card that works for both PC and MAC that makes photoshop zoom in realtime.
    http://www.nvidia.com/object/builtforadobepros.html

    I have SCSI drives elsewhere and they are okay but certainly not for what we do, our own server has SATA/SAS for RAID and larger files as its just as fast.

  • David-Foster-

    Member
    January 21, 2010 at 1:33 pm
    quote Dave Rowland:

    but I can emulate Corel using VMware Fusion for small money and can have Corel within a window on a Mac!!

    Dave, I have done that and while it works, it doesn’t seem as snappy as running directly through boot camp or on a PC. This is on a Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.33. I love my Macs but just upgraded my PC to an i5 750 for £300 for Coreldraw 😀

  • Dave Rowland

    Member
    January 21, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    ok thanks for that… im just curious of how to get the max out of corel without spend unessary money on processors or graphics cards when Corel doesn’t multi-thread over multiple processors as it is a tad slower then other programs.

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