Roger
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$280k or so for a four year education at RISD? Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
Seriously, that is insane. I can't imagine trying to pay that back on even a six figure salary, let alone what you'd make at an entry level
art job.
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My own thumbnail spec for overclocking is that it has to be fairly plug and play in implementation.
The intel quad core Q6600 I have now can be overclocked from 2.4 to 3.0 GHz with just an app from the desktop and still uses standard fan. That's easy enough for almost any user to do.
Do i need to bolt on a different cooler? OK I can manage that, but maybe not most users. Still, I'd consider it but needing to do a lot of experimentation with voltages and other parameters... then it's getting a little bit less likely for me because I don't really know how all that interacts
There is a lot of trial and error involved. You bump up the bus speed a bit, see if it is stable. If not, back it off. Bump up the voltage, see if it is stable, etc. You can get higher overclocks (or is it more stable? If forget) by increasing the voltage, but increasing the voltage increases the heat and means you'll need a better/more efficient heatsink. You have to be careful with upping the voltage, though, because you can fry your CPU.
Used to be way back in the day when all CPUs were unlocked, you could play around with both the bus speed and the multiplier. You could get a 300mhz celeron and get 400 or 450mhz out of it, easy. That's an ancient example, though.
These days they usually lock the multiplier on the CPU (unless you pay extra for one that allows overclocking) so you are limited to FSB overclocking.
Some boards have auto OC settings, I think the ASUS ROG boards have something like that. You can usually get a pretty good speed bump with the middle setting (there are low, medium, high OC settings).
You want to goose things much higher than 25% over spec, you have to fiddle around a lot or invest in more exotic cooling solutions.
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I am kinda surpised that they did not put the Apple logo on it. Or is it hidden somewhere?
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http://kotaku.com/garbage-can-that-looks-l...tem-i-513060072
Well, one of these trash cans, a dremel tool, and about $1500 worth of PC parts and you too can have something that looks kinda like one of those new-fangled Macs. Just until someone makes the knock-off PC case. You could even make it a Hackintosh.
Except the ports wouldn't light up when you spin it around. Unless you built that in with like an arduino and an accelerometer or something.
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For me personally, while I prefer PC I don't hate Mac.
It's just not my thing. Working in IT support, though,
there are lots of little tricks for things I know how to
do in Windows but don't seem to have a Mac equivalent.
Or if they do, I don't use it often enough to remember it.
For most things they seem to be more or less equivalent.
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Mixamo is running an unlimited access pass for $1500. It's too bad there is no way to convert the rigging data to something
AM can use.
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I saw the first pic and thought "it's a wastebasket."
How long before someone starts selling imitation round PC cases?
My bet is within 3 weeks of release.
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It looks like a trashcan. I'm not excited by the design.
The specs sound interesting, particularly the dual FireGL cards. I wonder is that 6GB RAM per card or 6GB total?
Surprised they didn't make this a dual socket system, a single 12 core xeon may not be enough for some people.
Upgrades will be very limited, I imagine.
Not a bad machine but I'm sure for the same amount of money I could put together a killer PC. I'd have a hard time spending
more than $2000 or $2500 on a PC these days.
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When you're in the convenience store, and you see some Pop-tarts, and you think "mmmm lembas bread".
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Hey Thejobe,
Can you PM me? I checked out your store's site and it looks pretty neat. Wanted to ask if you own a franchise or are working for someone else.
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My advice on a render box is wait until you have some substantial body of animation that needs to get rendered, when you get to the point that overnight rendering is not keeping up with what you are putting out.
I don't' know if the Opterons are good strategy or not. They run quite a bit slower than the consumer level CPUs
Yeah, you're right. No sense getting something before I absolutely need it.
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Ok, if that's the case I'd almost be better off going with 4 core Xeons, at least I get the full 8 floating point units then.
Hard call to make, though. 2 16 core opteron processors cost about the same, as long as they are within 10 percent of the speed of the xeon cores, I'm getting a full 16 FPUs that way (with a dual processor box). Anyone out there have an Interlagos (Opteron 6200 series) system?
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Can anyone out there confirm that Vishera is a full 8 core cpu? What I have dug up suggests that it is, however I know Interlagos only has 1 fpu per 2 integer units, so it may not be best for something as floating point heavy as AM. If it has 8 FPUs on it, then it may be worth looking at for a budget renderbox. If the most I am going to get with a dual processor Interlagos system is 16 FPUs anyway, it may make better sense from a financial standpoint to get 2 motherboards, 2 Vishera cpus and say 32gb RAM total. So I would be looking at maybe $800 istead of $1500, the only downside being that I would have 2 separate systems instead of one. Thoughts?
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... but I can't imagine living the last 10 to 20 years of my life as a virtual invalid.
Somehow Stephen Hawking makes it work for him.
You do what you have to do if you want to do it.
Well, I guess you work with what you're given. Not a fate I'd wish on anyone, that's for sure.
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Well, not that anyone gets to choose, but I can't imagine living the last 10 to 20 years of my life as a virtual invalid. Who knows if that is the case with this man, or if he only took a turn for the worse at 110. I imagine healthy living no matter how old you are will help stave off the inevitable somewhat. I guess if the decline was gradual as opposed to sudden it wouldn't be as bad, but I can't say I'm crazy about the prospect of being in that condition.
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I can't even imagine being this darn old:
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/last-...-181224235.html
I'm not sure I'd want to be that old, unless I had the quality of life of a healthy 70 year old person today.
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Probably should have bought these when I had the chance.
As far as Saturday morning cartoons go, I don't think those have been on for a while. At least, I can't remember the last time I went looking for them that they were on. Late '90s maybe? I think most stuff is just on Cartoon Network these days.
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Maybe the fan required can turn at lower rpm because it is larger and pushing air across a larger surface (the radiator)??
The fan I have on my radiator is a 120mm fan whereas the largest fan I've seen attached directly to a heatsink is 80 or 90mm.
Maybe that has something to do with it?
All I know is, is that I get a larger temperature drop using water cooling on my i7 than I did with a traditional heat sink. It is also quieter.
It was not cheaper, though.
Maybe there are some actual engineers out there that can shed some light on the subject?
The mostly reliable Wikipedia had this to say:
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And now that I think about it, liquid nitrogen cooling is actually phase-change cooling, since you are converting the liquid to a gas, just not going through the bother of using condenser coils.
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Water cooling *is* less noisy but the reason it is more efficient is water has a higher specific heat capacity. It can absorb more heat than can be removed by air cooling. That is the primary reason. If you are near a large body of water in winter it will be marginally warmer (or marginally cooler in the summer) due to this heat abosrbing capacity.
Phase-change cooling (the kind your fridge does) is even better, though.
And of course if you want real street-cred you need to use liquid nitrogen (but this is not practical long-term).
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Eh, I like "Lego Breaking Bad" better:
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I'd be interested to know if this gives you any extra clout or advantage. I have been thinking of taking the companion children's story I wrote for my film and self-publishing. I need to redo the illustrations, though, they are awfully rough currently. Keep us posted as to how this turns out. Good for you writing a whole novel, that is a lot of work.
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I just don't like linking my bank account to them, and don't feel like setting up a separate account at another bank just for paypal.
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Nevermind, guess you can checkout without signing up for Paypal. Can't say I'm crazy about them, though.
Sizing power supplies...things I don't quite get
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So let's say you are building a dual gpu computer with a high-end cpu (100W TDP) and your GPUs are 200W TDP each running flat-out.
You have a single HD and maybe an optical drive, so maybe another 50W? So a 550W to 600W power supply should be sufficient.
But if you use a lower power cpu, say 65w TDP and maybe a small flash drive (5w max) shouldn't you be able to drop the size of the power supply accordingly? Yet I see most of the midrange or higher end graphics cards saying they require a minimum 500W power supply.
I guess what I'm wondering is what sort of fudge factor do you need to build in for these systems? Just seems like at most you would need an 800w supply for even something with as many as 3 GPUs and yet I see people on these enthusiast sites recommending 1000w or more.
I've thought about adding a 2nd GPU for OpenCL/Cuda stuff but can't think of anything it would help with other than Premier and Photoshop, so not really sure it is worth the added expense and noise (and heat).