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2015-09-09 Thread cdwaldrum
hey i am currently looking at an thinkpenguin pro but i need to get this custom made becuase i needing the titian gt grapghics card for it can render avi files and np4. i am thinkinking correctly that the titian even thogh the price is crazy worth it for me an film editor to use? i know that

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2015-09-10 Thread tomlukeywood
"for it can render avi files and mp4." my pc uses integrated intel graphics and can render high quality mpeg-4 and avi (ogg, webm, mpeg-2 etc etc) video very well so i don’t think you rely need an external GPU for this purpose.

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2015-09-10 Thread jadedml
Huh? You need a Nvidia card to render certain file formats? You can render avi and mp4 files on pretty much any fair GPU (Including ones that work better than Nouveau) or CPU. If you get a Penguin machine, you'll be able to render avi and mp4 files, period- this I guarantee you.

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2015-09-10 Thread davesamcdxv
Games, AND NOTHING ELSE (excuse all-caps) come close to actually, technically requiring discrete cards as far as I know. For best graphics performance without discrete cards though, just get a Broadwell (not skylake, not Haswell), or ix-5xxxC processor and then go without a discrete card.

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2015-09-10 Thread tomlukeywood
"Games, AND NOTHING ELSE (excuse all-caps) come close to actually, technically requiring discrete cards as far as I know." well if you were doing video editing or making highly detailed animations professionally then you would most likely want a good GPU just to improve your productivity an

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2015-09-10 Thread tomlukeywood
"Games, AND NOTHING ELSE (excuse all-caps) come close to actually, technically requiring discrete cards as far as I know." well if you were doing video editing or making highly detailed animations professionally then you would most likely want a good GPU just to improve your productivity an

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2015-09-10 Thread cdwaldrum
the graphic card is for the frames that it renders - the lower ebd cards drop aboout 5 frames and that bothers me a lot - i going to be rendering a lot so i figure the titian be a good choice - i use to be surround by macs that been fitted with very high end cards at college and at high schoo

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2015-09-10 Thread greatgnu
you can software render avi and mp4 on any computer with a decent cpu without the need of any video acceleration whatsoever..

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2015-09-10 Thread zwiebel444
What software are you going to use? Nuevo isn´t Cuda nor opencl compatible... I don´t know why how, low end gpu´s drop frames, if any. For editing, I would take, if you need so much cpu power, ASUS KFSN4-DRE server/workstation board. It has 2 cpu-sockets both up to 8 cores per Socket. It is

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2015-09-10 Thread tomlukeywood
"both up to 8 cores per Socket." and if you get a certain type of the board you can have 16 cores per socket!

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2015-09-10 Thread cdwaldrum
i may ended up buying an system76 workhorse cause this going to pack an punch for my editing

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2015-09-11 Thread davesamcdxv
Honestly I recommend building your own PC (if you have the time that is, otherwise...it's still not the world's worst crime not to).

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2015-09-11 Thread davesamcdxv
Surely Intel Iris 6200 (comes with Broadwell ix-5xxxC CPUs) would be enough for something like that? Or am I mistaken?

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2015-09-11 Thread tomlukeywood
i know several computer shops that will build pc's for you if you bring all the parts for a small fee so if your worried about destroying your expensive CPU then you could just do this also as stated before i recommend the ASUS KFSN4-DRE server/workstation board if your building it yourse

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2015-09-11 Thread chris
I'm not sure how the ASUS KFSN4-DRE would work, but it would be better to go that route than System76 from a free software perspective. System76 isn't concerned about software freedom and your system might not work with Trisquel or other 100% free systems.. not to mention have parts with non-

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2015-09-11 Thread cdwaldrum
i am very tired of the FSF.. - i support opensource yes- but for me to get my work now since i got an good job (started to day i install fedora and chrome ) i am debating getting me a beef up think station and make that my render station - only render video on it and with an good graphic

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2015-09-11 Thread chris
If you end using a distribution with non-free pieces just remember that this isn't the place to discuss it as your going in the wrong direction. BUT- people here are still more than willing to help you avoid non-free pieces on said distribution. So for instance if you have a question about a

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2015-09-11 Thread cdwaldrum
sorry man - my temper got really up there - i been trying to get things done lately and that not been a good hop - i am planing to stay with my next distro that i hoping to and stay there

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2015-09-12 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
i am very tired of the FSF.. - i support opensource yes- [...] I'm not sure if you think the FSF supports open source. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) predates the open source movement by some years and does not support open source. The free software movement and open source approve o

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2015-09-12 Thread onpon4
> The Free Software > Foundation (FSF) predates the open source movement by some years and does > not support open source. About 13 years. I wouldn't use the word "some" to describe that amount. ;)