What do you want to see on an i7 965 Studio PC Build?

EverybodyelsE

EverybodyelsE

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Hello fellow people of the world wide web!

Coming in February is my first eVidcast episode. You can watch as I go through the entire process of building a powerful PC for my home studio in a 'Top Gear' style video.

This thread will allow you guys to tell me what part of the build you most want to see before I get started and the area with the most interest will get more coverage. Please leave your thoughts here or on the Youtube page.

Studio PC components below!

eVidcast Original Title Sequence

PC CASE - Coolermaster ATCS 840
POWER SUPPLY - Zalman 850w
MOTHERBOARD - Asus P6T Deluxe X58
PROCESSOR - Intel i7 965 Extreme Edition
MEMORY - Corsair 12GB DDR3 Triple Channel
GRAPHICS CARD - ATI Radeon HD 4870X2
HARD DRIVE - OCZ Vertex Series 30GB SSD
OPTICAL DRIVE - LG Blu-Ray Rewriter
CPU COOLER - Akasa AK-967 Nero
OS SOFTWARE - Windows Vista Home Premium x64
KEYBOARD - Razer Lycosa
MOUSE - Razer Lachesis Banshee Blue
ACOUSTIC CASE TREATMENT - AcoustiPack

See you in February! :D
 
Hmmm sounds interesting. Would you take on any students looking for work experience?

Sorry for the thread hijack!
 
Maccy said:
Hmmm sounds interesting. Would you take on any students looking for work experience?

Sorry for the thread hijack!
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Big Finish is a small company with only a very few full and part-time employees. Regrettably this means that we have neither the time or the resources to accomodate work experience placements. Sorry.
 
EverybodyelsE said:
Hello fellow people of the world wide web!

Coming in February is my first eVidcast episode. You can watch as I go through the entire process of building a powerful PC for my home studio in a 'Top Gear' style video.

This thread will allow you guys to tell me what part of the build you most want to see before I get started and the area with the most interest will get more coverage. Please leave your thoughts here or on the Youtube page.

Studio PC components below!

eVidcast Original Title Sequence

PC CASE - Coolermaster ATCS 840
POWER SUPPLY - Zalman 850w
MOTHERBOARD - Asus P6T Deluxe X58
PROCESSOR - Intel i7 965 Extreme Edition
MEMORY - Corsair 12GB DDR3 Triple Channel
GRAPHICS CARD - ATI Radeon HD 4870X2
HARD DRIVE - OCZ Vertex Series 30GB SSD
OPTICAL DRIVE - LG Blu-Ray Rewriter
CPU COOLER - Akasa AK-967 Nero
OS SOFTWARE - Windows Vista Home Premium x64
KEYBOARD - Razer Lycosa
MOUSE - Razer Lachesis Banshee Blue
ACOUSTIC CASE TREATMENT - AcoustiPack

See you in February! :D
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Hurry up!

Tell you what would make it amazing, if you dressed up in a darth vader outfit and animated the force building your pc!
 
Well I have now recieved all of the components on the list apart from the OCZ Vertex SSD. Instead I bought a 30GB OCZ Solid Series to use as the system drive until the Vertex becomes available and then I will use the Solid Series SSD as my main production drive.

I will be building the studio PC this weekend as it is the only weekend I have totally free so if anyone wants something specific they would like to see during the build then speak now :)

I may post pics here before the video podcast is released too.
 
Well the studio PC is now up and running and I've played GTA IV on it using maximum settings, woo!

Here are some pre-Vidcast pics with an ATCS 840 size comparison to the P180:

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I see you're using East West, 12GB will come in handy! :) Will you be storing the libraries on a single drive or do you have a dedicated raid array? - i'm currently running a raid-0 (everythings backed up on CDs anyways) for my libraries, although with things like BFD/Akoustik/East West 500GBs disappears pretty quick :(

Although curious to why you've chosen the PC route over Mac? And more importanly why you went with Vista instead of XP?

Interesting project though, get the video up!! :p
 
visibleman said:
I see you're using East West, 12GB will come in handy! :) Will you be storing the libraries on a single drive or do you have a dedicated raid array? - i'm currently running a raid-0 (everythings backed up on CDs anyways) for my libraries, although with things like BFD/Akoustik/East West 500GBs disappears pretty quick :(

Although curious to why you've chosen the PC route over Mac? And more importanly why you went with Vista instead of XP?

Interesting project though, get the video up!! :p
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I have dedicated drives for each section of the Eastwest orchestra, choirs and SD2 but they're not in raid.

Although I like the look of OS X I'm not a big fan of the Mac system. I love building PCs and playing games when I can so I would rather have my own custom built PC with the components I choose. :)
 
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