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Laz your the best, thanks man. thanks for tip that helps tons. Aug

cobalt, I am asking about amd64 optron, venice, newcastle... what are they and which are advantageous also if anyone can make a case for a dual core intel i'm good with that. I have to relearn alot of technology...like if an ee processor is used you need a PS that has dual rail 2x4 (whatever that means) but it's real. i read it in the intel manual. So I'm trying to get some advice on the AMD's and anything on intel. I KNOW NOTHING about optron, venice and I trust people on this forum more than any review. Aug

this is what ive learned... intel EE dual cores need 2x4 in order to run properly. This means a dual rail power supply. a 2x2 will not do it. I read the mb manual and sure enough it's correct the website explains a little about it. I don't know what "dual rail technology" is nor do I know how to know if a ps is dual rail or not. Aug

dark, YAAA protools rocks indeed!!! Ya alot of musicians do use macs but Pc's are starting to move in. Since the p4 and amd64 have such g5 like power at lower costs many home musicians are finding pcs are the better route. I havent used audition. If I could I'd go sonar as I like it a bit more than pro-tools for it's midi and recording interface however Tools has all the STUFF!!!! EXPENSIVE! Most Pc DAWS are using a p4 but I have seen some 64amd's on sale as well. I'm using Cubase VST32 as SX lacks drag and drop midi files from any VST. That means any midi groove file from RMX has to be brought in through the file menu!!! YUK! yea I've been in other studios (mostly pro-tools). Dude have you seen digital performer on the mac. NICE!!! it's right there with tools. They've got this hit point midi feature for video syncing that ROCKS! anyhow do you have any VST's or GS. Kontact is Gigastudio copy. fill me on on what you do. Aug

I'm not into the whole intel vs Amd thing. So I'll leave that to the pros. I use a p4 3.0 ghz running cubase with stylus rmx, atmoshpere and the AWSOME gigastudio and it's a great machine. So I tend to think no matter what I throw at em they'll be happy. With that said... I want to get them the best bang for their buck. When I built the AMD 64 there were no drivers avail on the cd or the internet!!!! I was tinkled. So do you think an AMD64 is the way to go? I'd like to keep the cost to about 200 for the cpu and 200 for mb. That should supply the Horses to get the job done. As for audio, I'm putting a professional audio card in so I'm not worried about that. Prob a maudio delta 1010lt Very nice for audio editing and mixing. It will be a dual scree DVI 7600GT (don't even try to persuade me to ATI cause it's a waste of your time). Viewsonic 19" digital wide screen LCD monitors MB and CPU are what I really am debating. at this point I'm looking at AMD64 HT, and P4 dual core (for future upgrade in OS) so lets talk AMD64. whats a good bang for the buck...There are all kinds of AMD's optron, venice, newcastle??? what are these and which is a good one? The FX and X are out as the cost is just a bit too high. so lets talk p4 dual core (non ee) vs amd64 (non x or fx). Take it away guys : ) Aug

Guys what does it mean 2x4 and 2x2 on dual rail power supplies and how do you know if the power supply has one or the other? Aug

I don't recall all the different articles but p4 scores very high on video and audio benchs. If you read I stated the 64amd does outperform but not by miles. In games it kills but in video editing and audio editing it's not a huge diff. Something about floating points for p4 makes it great for these purposes which is why you'll hardly ever see any professional audio pc co. building amd's. They might now with amd64. anyhow a high end A64 is high priced. also last I used winxp64 the drivers were all crappy and half of em failed so I'm a bit reserved on just jumping on the 64bit bandwagon. I'm not making any arguments (please educate me when I'm wrong). Perhaps 64bit pc's are all running great now cause it's been about 4 months since i built that 64bit sys. Thanks zero for that I'll give it a read. Aug

yea cobalt they want great stuff and I'm not as learned on the new stuff. Heres another question I have. RAID... whats it for? I offer seperate partitions for work and home use (for those who use their pc's for work) so virus' don't go after the work. Thas if they agree to use the internet on a seperate partition. So video people can boot into the video partition and theres no network connections there to help protect from virus'. Normal use allows all progs. I then add a 400gb sataii 3gbs data drive in logical and "my docs" is moved there so all the stuff they save is seperate from the boot drive (160gb). Thus if a wipe is needed and imaging required all the files they have are still there. I'm reading alot of people who use RAID and I don't know the dynamics to it apart of 2 drives act as one. can you educate me on this? please : ) Thanks Aug

Ok i know this one has an original thread somewhere but I don't feel like spending 2 hrs looking for it : ) I saw the "evolution" thread but thought, I'd better stay away so I don't get spoiled. I atcually like this movie. a few things bothered me. 1) bad effects of the lychens (spelling) epsecially when shes in the hallway and like 3-4 of em are running on the walls. Theyre like running a whole .0004 miles per hour. What was that. all they needed was some good effects and this movie for me would have been really fun. much better than blade. 2)whats up with the halfbreed getting worked. Hes got the skills of a vampire and the strength of both. but he gets his butt kicked by the old man. OK OK he's not old cause he's immortal. whatever, he should have worked victor! 3) They make the warewolves look weak. It's like at the beginnign they kick but but then all of a sudden at some point in the movie theyre like chiuauas running for for their lives. They should have made better effects for this movie. OUT!

ok so dual core it is. thanks cobalt and guys. I want to keep my cost on the chip to about 275.00 so what would be the right chip and mb around 200.00 can you guys make any suggestions on makes and models. I love foxconn for intel cause theyre frikin stable as heak. however I don't think they have any dual core ht amd's. Aug

absolutely love unbreakable...great movie

guys the main purpose is Video. I have done much reading on multimedia and 64bit amd's compare (outperform BARELY) a low end pentium 4. As a musician working Cubase and digital audio and using Vegas Video (sony) I did alot of research on this area and yea AMD does kick on gaming but in multimedia I have to spend alot of money for the high end amd. WITH THAT SAID... I've not done any reading on AMD dual core. Will Vista take advantage of this? heres another proposition to make to the client... What about getting a mb that supports the EE (dual core) and purchasing a reg p4 ht in it. Then if and when vista is released then purchase a dual core and plug it in and go? I am sure they will want pentium anyhow. I'll still give amd a try but you can forget it on ati. : ) sorry I know you ATI people are so sold on the horse power but I've had to many failures to give em a chance. now concerning the heat. I planned on going with a zalaman copper cooler to help the cooling on the chip no matter what chip i go with. the thing is awsome. silent, and fins in 360 degrees around the fan. it looks like a flower. Really nice piece for cpu cooling. However I do want to be sure about the chip so a little more dialouge would be helpful. Can you guys bring me to date on my expectation of AMD with dual core or 64 bit support? the last note on video work is I think it's cheaper to build a network of lowend pc's (like building 4 pc's) and network render to them rather than trying to build a pc thats 4x faster than the average pc. Any thoughts? Aug Aug

what I mean guys is comparing dell to building my own. I personally have issues with many clients who have AMD (athlons) so I tend not to build any. I built 1 and it worked fine for about 3 mos and then died so we replaced it with the same mb and cpu and it's been fine for about 2 years. But alot of the calls that seem unresolvable seem to be AMD. I know they carry the horse but like ATI they carry the larger load or probs. I personally won't even buy an ATI due to about 9 bad experiences building systems. I gave up when their dual screens dvi would not work and I read on the web there was no fix avail. We got an nvidia and no probs. I'm not arguing nvidia has no probs but for me and my business nvidia and intel have been more stable so I go with that. I tried x64 and it sucked totally. drive errors galore!!! even with devices with drivers they acted funny like taking a bit long to print. Heres what I quoted them a 80gb sata2 HD 3gbs partitioned in 3. 1 for normal use. 1 for internet use. and 1 for backup a 300 gb sata2 hd 3gb for data 2 gb ram 3.2 dual core p4 800 mhz bus dvd, dvdrw, card reader w/ floppy, firewire in front, 2 19" digital widescreen viewsonics for 2414.00 7600gt nvidia dual dvi the multi partition also can aid in upgrading to vista if or when it comes. use the internet partition with upgrades to test before installing on reg partition. Using the internet partition is for keeping their video work away from virus'. any thoughts Aug

guys its for a customer doing video. he wants 2 pc's with dual dvi's he wants one now so I'm looking at dell and comparing and I find dual core to be the standard of the high end. I think i'll go dual core on wxp home then hopefully vista upgrades can be applied??? any thoughts. Auggy

guys, I had a problem when I last built a 64 bit xp system. No drivers and so we had to install win xp pro 32. I'm now looking at a dual core xp win 32. any ideas on how good these things are? Aug

ok guys I've given up on this thought... basically this is what just popped into my mind on the way home from work. I thought...man if wiener dogs could talk then what would they do? They would become ambitious and not want to be outside. They want soft beds, watch a little TV, get jobs (doing what) and what about the bugs? What about the sparrows? They would want to write books but they couldnt becuase they have paws??? its all nonsense to me now : ) Sorry for even mentioning this lame brain idea : ) Auggy

unclean, I think that makes sense. although I would say not proven. that bad luggage may or may not be... whatever the case the mind does have the capability is the point still yet. and yes I realize that the capability may only be accessible by damaging the brain. but i appreciate that point cause it makes me wonder less : )

emily, I realize savants have the bad luggage. I'm simply speculating that perhaps they are showing us what out minds are capable of. Perhaps before the fall man did remember like a savant. Perhaps math was simple to us. they show us the brain can do it. So perhaps we can do those types of things and keep our social intellegences. Aug as for snakes talking, what language do you suppose they speak : ) indian i think hahahahaha

whether the bible is true or false do you deny the immense capabilities of idiot savants. Whether you believe the bible or whether you believe it's a fairy tale, how do you explain savants achievments of their minds. My take is the 10% myth has truth in one way or another. But my other thought is that perhaps God designed us to have flawless memory, comprehension and perhaps even animals is they could access more of their brain matter could speak : ) hahahaha i know i sound ridiculous. Auggy

I would equate the myth of using 10% = to saying access or sharpened in focused areas. What I mean is I don't think theres much of a difference in saying "we use 10% of our brain" vs. "we access only 10% of what our brain is functioning at". I don't care if I have all the capabilities of an idiot savant.... I care that I can't do it. It leads me to the same possibility that perhaps God designed man to be like this. Perhaps animals too have inhibitors from being more intellegent than they currently are. My point is savants are obviously displaying that the brain is much more capable of doing things than we "NORMAL" people do.

was the saw good? how bout 2?

id like to hear the phd people explain why idiot savant brains function like computers. Memory that is absolutley flawless. why are we not idiot savants if we all use our full capacity? why are they so intellifent in a focused area if they are no different? I'm not saying its a myth, I'm saying the myth may hold some water since I can't understand idiot savants being able to do what is NOT normal. Too many documented savants to say its just a freak of nature. my GUESS is they may use more brain matter than we? I'm not saying they do I just cant seem to think that the reason they can remember things they was some do is because they have lots of calcium : ) Some can hear music played (classical mozart piano) and play it back on their first try w/o error. HOWWWWWW their brain is functioning in a way that is AWSOME! is it possible we were designed to function this way but not with the handicaps of savants. Auggy

anyone got any thoughts on idiot savants?

how do these people who say the 10% is a myth argue the autisms accent? I have considered the errency to this 10% myth and it may very well be true however I still cant seem to find a descent alternative reason HOW an autistic person could be so exteremly intellegent in a focused area. seems like ther emight be truth to the myth Aug http://www.autism.org/savant.html ok heres a site on it. Why is it these people have these abilities if I use 100% perhaps they use 100% all the time and thats their problem. Perhaps the 10% myth has truth. I tend to think the myth might have truth in that these people might be using certain areas of the brain at full capacity where normal people have inhibitions of the brain... as if I know anything about brains!!! hahahah im as smart as I am good at source : ) Aug

Guys I know this is a bit radical but I thought I might share this thought. you know how animals in the bible have talked. well maybe someone can shed some light on the following. I've HEARD it said that man only uses a small percentage of his brain and if fully used he would EXTREMELY intellegent. I tend to think (due to idiot savant autism) that there is truth to this. Some autistic children can hear a song and play it on piano or put numbers like no computer can in an instant. What if animals only use a small percentage of their brain as well. If a snake or donkey used a larger percentage perhaps they could talk ok ok quit laughing, its only fun to th ink about Auggy