Building a New Art Computer Rig (Get Ready TanRu)

[stormsweeper]

I will look at the Intel Drives. The SSD wear out is what I am worried about, that's why I was thinking to do a platter.
The Intel part of the Mainboard does Raid 0, 1, 5, 10. I can let the hardware do that part.

Cool. With that much RAM, maybe you won't have to use the scratch disks that much?

Adobe software manages its own scratch disk usage for very large files, separate of standard swap space.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/c ... ab64-7489a

[boredoom]

I see Adobe recommends using an SSD as the scratch disk, if the RAM is maxed out: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/opt ... 4-cs5.html

[boredoom]

Man, this is really making me want to get a new CPU. My main PC is also the home entertainment unit, so keeping power use low is essential. I limited myself to a Core 2 Duo with a 65W TDP so I could run the fans low. Now there's a quad-core i7 with 65W TDP. That's nuts! I could probably get a much faster CPU than the one I have with a 45W TDP. But then I'd need a new motherboard and memory too, so it's a $400+ project. Since I just upgraded the drives, this will have to wait...

[oldSalty]

Without the drives, monitors, keyboard, or wacom, this will run me about $1800. I haven't comparison shopped yet, just getting a baseline cost.

[boredoom]

The $440 video card would be my first target for savings ...

[oldSalty]

The $440 video card would be my first target for savings ...

For me it's all about the video card, nice and powerful, 6 monitor support, also acts like a sound card through HDMI, I will connect it to every monitor/tv in my apartment!

[oldSalty]

I also added two SSD drives:

For Boot and Adobe apps:
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD1 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

For scratch disks and virtual memory:
Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

[boredoom]

Cool!

I just discovered that my new $35, fanless graphics card greatly speeds up video compression in NeroVideo through NVidia CUDA. If Adobe supports that sort of thing, you could be on to something by paying roughly the price of a new PC for the graphics card alone....

[oldSalty]

Cool!

I just discovered that my new $35, fanless graphics card greatly speeds up video compression in NeroVideo through NVidia CUDA. If Adobe supports that sort of thing, you could be on to something by paying roughly the price of a new PC for the graphics card alone....

I keep seeing posts and blogs about After Effects Ray-Tracer and the NVida CUDA. I will not be using AE for that so I am not that worried.
As the some of the other programs in CS6 use openCL/GPU acceleration which works with ATI/AMD cards. I am looking forward to quicker brush rendering in PS!