motherboard suggestions

[pnb263]

I already have my buisness up and running for video editing/encoding/DVD Authoring, but am looking into getting a bit more hardware and expand. I was looking at the Canopus line of solutions and have seen that they reside on a 64-bit PCI bus for thier cards.

What, if any, motherboards out there would have 64-bit PCI busses and support recent CPU chips. Any motherboard will do, but I am looking for stability (no overclocking), and speed. I need some suggestions for GOOD motherboards that will last 2-3 years before becoming things of the past (5 years would be better)

I haven't had much luck searching on the internet for them...

Thanks in advance to any that make a suggestion!

Pat

 

[pnb263]

Actually... Any thoughts on a motherboard that has been laying around my house for a while? It is the ASUS CUR-DLS Serverworks board. It has dual S370, onboard dual channel SCSI and two 64-bit PCI slots... I really havent used this board a whole lot (got it for about 200 bucks back in college)...

I just dont know about the limited speed (PIII 1GHz) that it supports (133 FSB)

Just trying to make some hard decisions on some hardware upgrades for future use in the business...

Again, thanks

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Video editing, you might be better off with Intel. Try an Intel 955 board, coupled with a Pentium D or something. However, ironic as it is (suggesting from my name), I'm not too familiar with Intel products.

-The Pentium Guy (Oh the irony)

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
Video editing, you might be better off with Intel. Try an Intel 955 board, coupled with a Pentium D or something. However, ironic as it is (suggesting from my name), I'm not too familiar with Intel products.

-The Pentium Guy (Oh the irony)

Unfortunately there's no PCI-X to be found, although if your video editing hardware is set to come out on PCI-Express soon, that may be your solution to having bandwidth and being able to use less-expensive consumer/prosumer level hardware.

Otherwise, for PCI-X support you must look at stuff like the Tyan K8WE (you don't have to run two Opterons in it - one will do - but it's going to be expensive regardless).

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Question: Why do you need PCIX? Why not just use PCIe

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
Question: Why do you need PCIX? Why not just use PCIe

Unfortunately, PCI-E peripherals other than video cards have been long in coming. I haven't checked on the state of video capture hardware recently, but I doubt it's any different from other peripherals in terms of PCI-E deployment status.

 

[pnb263]

I dont NEED PCIX. But the hardware I am looking at for the encoding/capturing (for better quality... always quality) is a 64-bit PCI card.

I was doing some checking last night, and I think that the board I have will work for this setup. It has what I need (PCI 64-bit, SCSI onboard, etc) but i would need to buy more RAM and a second CPU for it (dont need to, but they are 80 bucks right now.).

From what the hardware documentation states, I shouldnt need to have a beefy CPU since the card does most of the work...

I dont know, Im going to keep looking around for some solutions that might keep me from sinking a whole lot of money (the setup im looking at is $2000 for the hardware and software that comes with it from Canopus...)

 

[calaverasgrandes]

are you sure the old PIII motherboard can handle the bandwidth of your NLE video editing software? NLE throws a lot of data around even if it isnt using the CPU to do the heavy lifting. It will still generate previews, save to disk etc.

have you checked out
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813151148

16gb of ecc, dual opterons and SLI, with dual raid and firewire!

 

[pnb263]

That does look like a good board, and would not add a significant price jump to my already extravagant machine that I wish to finish building within a couple months... but.. I think that the card that Canopus has is a 66MHz 64=bit card and not a 133MHz or even a 100MHz... (checking) hmm.. seems that it recommends a P4 3GHz or faster (dual xeon recommended), and blah, blah... 64-bit/66MHz slot (rev. 2.2) (also states that it can be used in a 32bit slot with HD features disabled, ie I can still do SD stuffs)...

Hmm, maybe Ill try getting the Canopus stuff first, and then build around the card based on what I need... so maybe it will be alright for the time being in my A64 machine... maybe...

definately a LOT more checking to do before purchases are to be made

 

[HDTVdesignteam]

Pat,
looks like you are going with the Canopus EDIUS NX board for HD. The HD realtime editing systems that I am familiar with use dual cpu's. Since we are an Avid house, our DS Nitris systems come with HP dual processor pc's. We even have some of the Adrenaline HD using dual processor HP's and Dell's. (Dell is corporate pc of choice).
At this time I think we have the largest digital editing facility in the world.

Anyhow, the desktop SD systems I build for marketing use Dell Intel 3.4 processors with 2G of RAM, 3 -160G HD?s (1 system, 2 raid 0) and simple Pinnacle Studio capture cards. These are not for on air, just showing clients commercial insertion availabilities or where their spots ran on the cable networks.

I want to build a system for home use for video SD and Photoshop editing. Not ready for HD yet. I am looking at the ASUS A8V board with 3700+ to 4000+ cpu, 2G of cheap RAM and 3-4 HD?s.

Keep us informed with what you choose. I have heard the Tyan boards are good for video editing. Good luck.
George
NBC Engineering