RE: [Avid-L2] z800s (Was WWDC Keynote)

Hi Mike,
what problems are you having with it? we use it whenever a crate starts acting weird and experience no problems. Can you elaborate?
Just to chip in we have about 5 Z800's at the moment and they are awesome, we have one running a Content Agent and it just rips through encoding tasks! Built like a brick shithouse too!
Cheers,
Andi

To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
From: post@texas360.tv
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:42:26 +1000
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] z800s (Was WWDC Keynote)


























Hi Job, We have had serious problems with EditPrep. What are you experiences

with it?



Cheers



Mike Drew



From: "Job ter Burg (L2B)" <Job_L2@terburg.com>

Reply-To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>

Date: Wednesday, 13 June 2012 9:35 AM

To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>

Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] z800s (Was WWDC Keynote)



Hi Dan,



I just spent a few days setting it up, so haven't spent much time editing

yet, but it seems much faster than the XW8600 I was using. Notable when

scrubbing through the timeline, even more so when rendering dailies in

Resolve.



I basically just took the specs from Avid's website:

http://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/supportFiles/attach/422411/PCQual_MC_SY_NC_AS_IN_

v6_10_17.pdf

and the configuration guide:

http://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/attach/mc6specs/AVID%20HP%20Z800%20C

onfig%20guide%20Media%20Composer-%20Symphony%206.0%20%20NewsCutter%2010%20an

d%20later%20%20Rev%20A.pdf



Then I jotted down all the numbers (dual six-core X5650, BIOS version, 6x2GB

RAM config, Q4000, all of that), then emailed that to a trusted supplier of

refurbished HP workstations, and he made me a very decent quote and built

the exact configuration. More than 40% less than building a new system, and

mine comes with 2 years of warranty.



Few things that I do when setting up such a system for Avid:

- I have a Windows 7 themepack that is pretty spartan or XP-like if you

will, killing all Aero stuff and such

- I run EdPrep to configure the system for Avid, then just turn on smooth

fonts (EdPrep kills that by default)

- I install MacDrive, so I can mount and read/write Mac disks



It's always as hassle to move certain third party licenses from one machine

to the other, so switching CPU's always takes me some time.



J



On 12 jun. 2012, at 20:47, Dan McCabe wrote:



> If you don't mind, what are the specs on your HPs?



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