new computer next week

[tomtombaz]

Hi all
thought it was time to ditch my steam driven machine and buy something new
I was looking at pairing two 6800gt's in sli but just too expensive so plumed for the following
Pentium p4 3.4ghz.....250 gig sata hd 1 gig of ram(may upgrade to two but alot of people say its not worth it at the moment) 850xt platinum edition.
Really want to know if anyone has a identical set up and what sort of frame rates will i expect with a busy airport with ultimate trafic and demanding add-ons.

[Gunny04]

Depends on what you do.... Do you do a lot of movie editing.... or a lot of Gaming? if its gaming.... AMD athlon the venice cores are due real soon, if its movie editing take the penti! now a 6800 ultra and gig of ram, thats good, two isnt really worth it! and that setup looks about to get 20 - 30 FRPS in Seatle full load Cheers gunny

[Dan]

Either a venice or a FX55 / 57. I hear the Venices will be available at OCUK in around 9 days now. Of ocurse if you've got the money how about XEON's or Opterons?

[the_autopilot]

Depends on what you do.... Do you do a lot of movie editing.... or a lot of Gaming? if its gaming.... AMD athlon the venice cores are due real soon, if its movie editing take the penti! now a 6800 ultra and gig of ram, thats good, two isnt really worth it! and that setup looks about to get 20 - 30 FRPS in Seatle full load Cheers gunny

For movie editing, the venice cores won't be able to compete at all with the intel dual cores (smithfield). Those things grind video encoders and spit out HD content (both 720p and 1080i) like there's no tommorow

As for gaming (and most other single thread apps) though, get venice or get out.

And please stop saying 6800 ultras (or any other dx9 vid card) are for video editing. Their not. Their main usage is for gaming. For video editing, a open gl accelerated workstation card (firegl, quadro, Realizm) is much better b/c software and hardware are optmized for it.

[Delta_]

If you want to video edit to that scale you need a seperate system from a gaming system.  Ideally a dual Opteron system with a FireGL etc... and a load of RAM, 2GB.  

For a gaming system you would be looking at a AMD FX-55/57 an ATi X850XT PE and atleast 1GB RAM.

The choice of HDD is totally up to you, as you are the only one that knows how much data you are going to be storing.

[the_autopilot]

[quote]If you want to video edit to that scale you need a seperate system from a gaming system.