Hi
 
Your (any) comments about following system is much appreciated. At present I am experiencing choppy video(draft quality video on monitor) and slowing the process on my Dell Dimension 8400(Pentium4/3.4GHz,2GB DDR2 RAM, 500GB HDD)when running Adobe PPro CS4. Video Camera used Sony PMW EX1 with Sony SXS memory cards.
 
The system I am intend to buy is mainly to run the APPRo CS5 initially and later associated Adobe Master Collection programs( Eg. Fireworks, Dreamweaver, After Effects,Encore, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop and Soundbooth).
 
Dell Precision T7500 (Workstationchassis with 1100watts power supply (85%+ Efficiency Power Factor Correcting power supply)
 
Intel Xeon E5630 2.53GHz, 12M Cache, 5.88GT/S QPI, Turbo, 4C
Intel 5520 chipset
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Dell back-up and Rcovery Manager for Windows 7
24GB (6X4GB) DDR3 RDIMM Memory, 1333MHz, CC
600 GB (15000rpm) SAS HDD Drive(for C:\)
Two 600GB (15000rpm) SAS HDDs
PRC6/i SAS/SATA Hardware RAID Card
SAS Connector cable
SATA Cable for 2nd Optical drive
All SAS Drivs, RAID 5, 3 drive XtremeMusic
Addiional Broadcom 5722 10/100/1000 Ethernet Networking LAN Solution
Dell MS 111 USB Optical Mouse
Dell QuietKey Keyboard
3yr on-site warranty
2 Monitors - 24" - Dell MOdel G2410H Widescreen Flatpanel monitor s
Integrated Intel SATA 3.0GB/S controller with support for RAID
Integrated Broadcom 5761 Gigabit ethernet controller
Integrated High Def Audio
 
Slots: All full length except as noted
1 PCI-e X16 Gen2 wired as X4
2 PCI-e X16 Gen 2 slots wired as X8 (one is half length)
2 PCI-e X16 Gen 2 Graphics slots
1 PCI-X 64bit/100MHz slot with support for 3.3v or univrsal card
1 PCI 32bit/33MHz 5v slot
 
Standard I/O ports
11 USB 2 (2 on front panel, 6 on back panel and 3 internal)
IEE 1394a (One front, one rear)
1 Serial
1 Parallel
2 PS/2
1 RJ 45
1 e-SATA port on back panel
Stereo LINE-IN and Headphone LINE-OUT on back panel
Microphone & Headphone connector on back panel
 
Bays:
4 Internal 3.5" HDD Bays
3 xternal 5.25" optical bays, one of which can accommodate a fifth HDD
1 xtrnal 3.5" flex bay for floppy driv or Media crd Reader
 
Total Weight 25Kg
 
 
Thanks.
 Your hlp is much apprciated

Pushpa

You need an NVidia Quadro FX 3800/4800/5800 or GTX 470 (or GTX 200series and hack the CUDA file) to use the Mercury playback engine.  I've got the 3800 is oone machine and a 4800 in another and really don't see what I gained with the far more expensive 4800. 3800 is fine.

RAID storage is a must for HD work.  I haven't had any hiccups with XDCAM HD 422 so your XDCAM EX will work fine.  BorisFX 64 bit RED and FX will be available anyday now.  Also, Sony Vegas handles XDCAM HD very well.

Thx Peter for ur comments. So u think I can use FX3800 instead of FX4800 graphics card. I think it's about A$1500 less for 3800 card...

What do u think about th RAID 5 systtem with 3X600GB SAS Hard Drives(15,000rpm - as the have quoted)

<> I've got the 3800 is oone machine and a 4800 in another and really don't see what I gained with the far more expensive 4800<>

From what I've read and experimented with, it appears the amount of CUDA cores and the power of the CPU to be able to keep the CUDA fed is what determines the RT performance of the MPE, not how expensive a card or its graphics capability beyond its ammount of cores, I've got a 4800 in a graphics workstation and a GTX260 in a editing workstation, I've swapped them out and the performance is about the same, both have 192 cuda cores, I've also put a 470 fermi in the same machine, and got increased performance,  but not what you can get in a machine with a hotter CPU