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- Aug 18, 2012
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- Motherboard
- Sabertooth x79
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- Core i7-3930k
- Graphics
- EVGA GeForce GTX 670 4GB
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- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Regarding audio... you don't need an internal card for what you are doing. Those cards are designed--I think--for providing people with lots more I/O possibilities, to take the ("DSP"?) processing load off the CPU, and enable audio work at crazy high resolutions that are almost certainly overkill for what you are going to be doing. Just get a USB or firewire breakout box: I've got an Mbox pro 3 and I love it. Another advantage of this is that you can take it with you wherever you want, setting it up on other people's computers or laptops for recording sessions.
RE the GA-X79-UD7, it apparently only allows 24gb RAM! Definite no-no for video editing build.
One other thing: apparently Davinci Resolve really likes / recommends having a separate, discrete graphics card for the GUI interface in addition to a card to handle all of its GPU processing. Of course, you can run just a single card for both GUI and GPU, but you apparently get better performance with two separate cards. In this regard, resolve is pretty PCI-slot hungry: a card for GPU, a card for GUI, and a card for sending video signal out! Jeez! They don't really advertise this as much as you need to know. I also know that some cards--I think the GTX 690 for example--are treated as two discrete 2gb cards, and one is allocated to the GUI.... so I would research that a bit more.
I want to possibly start another thread to ask DBP and other experts about proper RAID configurations. My data needs are quite as extreme as Marc's, nor is my budget! But I'd like to, for example, have 6TB worth of storage space for footage with some sort of RAID (1?) protection.... and I'd prefer to do this only using the OSX's disk utility configuration, and I recall DBP talking about using RAID 0 and RAID 1 together via OSX's disk utility function..... but I'm probably confusing this thread a bit right now.
RE the GA-X79-UD7, it apparently only allows 24gb RAM! Definite no-no for video editing build.
One other thing: apparently Davinci Resolve really likes / recommends having a separate, discrete graphics card for the GUI interface in addition to a card to handle all of its GPU processing. Of course, you can run just a single card for both GUI and GPU, but you apparently get better performance with two separate cards. In this regard, resolve is pretty PCI-slot hungry: a card for GPU, a card for GUI, and a card for sending video signal out! Jeez! They don't really advertise this as much as you need to know. I also know that some cards--I think the GTX 690 for example--are treated as two discrete 2gb cards, and one is allocated to the GUI.... so I would research that a bit more.
I want to possibly start another thread to ask DBP and other experts about proper RAID configurations. My data needs are quite as extreme as Marc's, nor is my budget! But I'd like to, for example, have 6TB worth of storage space for footage with some sort of RAID (1?) protection.... and I'd prefer to do this only using the OSX's disk utility configuration, and I recall DBP talking about using RAID 0 and RAID 1 together via OSX's disk utility function..... but I'm probably confusing this thread a bit right now.