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WTF CPU

DrDave — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 19:47:14 +0000

So, have had my Intel six core (HT) cheapo system for some time now, using Premiere Pro. I can't say it's zippy, but it works. It chokes a bit on transitions with stacked filters. It's overclocked to "4".
So I figure I need a new system at this point. Plus I have 14 8TB hard drives in the computer, so I guess the only thing to do is build a new one and keep the old one.
I'm looking at all the ratings, reviews, etc. For CPUs and cards.
According to a lot of benchmarks, even a fairly cheap Intel 8 core will perform as well as some of the new 16 or 24 core CPUs. This seems ridiculous.
What do you all think? What's a good CPU Graphic card combo?

Kaby Lake HEVC decoders have limits

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 06:32:36 +0000

For example it means that this generation will be unable to playback some HEVC 4k p60 footage made with upcoming cameras.

None of models will support HEVC 422 and 444 playback.

Processors will lack support for HDMI 2.0 ports with HDCP 2.2.

Intel 22mm Baytail, chinese and other cheap WIndows tablets strike back

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 09:39:24 +0000

The Intel Bay trail-t will come in 4 models Z3770, Z3770D, Z3740 and Z3740D respectively. All the processors will have an L2 cache of 2MB.The Intel Bay Trail-t SoC has also shifted to the Intel HD Integrated graphics. The Intel Atom Bay Trail-t processors will support a maximum display of 1920×1600/2560×1600 and a minimum display resolution of 1366×768

Though the Bay Trail-t Intel Atom SDP is given the TDP which is the actual practical wattage is not given. However the Z3770 and the Z3770D processors will have a clock rate of upto 2.4 Ghz whiles the Z3740 and Z3740D will have a maximum clock rate of upto 1.8 Ghz for each core.

Via: http://vr-zone.com/articles/bay-trail-t-coming-september-11/49425.html

Intel Haswell i7-4770K CPU, little reason to upgrade

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:23:29 +0000

Check more at http://www.chinadiy.com.cn/html/24/n-9024.html

Thunderbolt 2

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 01:32:45 +0000

Everybody seems to be sharing video these days - at higher resolutions than ever. This always-increasing demand has helped expand growth and adoption of Intel's Thunderbolt™ technology in 2013, especially for the video editors creating the best and richest content. Originally brought to market in conjunction with Apple*, Thunderbolt is now a standard feature of Mac* computers sold in the market today. The last year has also seen the PC industry get on board in earnest, as Thunderbolt is currently included on over 30 PCs and motherboards worldwide, including on more than a dozen new 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor-based products. In addition, there are more than 80 Thunderbolt-enabled peripheral devices, covering everything from storage drives, expansion docks, displays, and a myriad of media capture and creation hardware. More than 220 companies worldwide are developing Thunderbolt-enabled products, and that's only going to increase.

At the video geekfest National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in April, Intel announced plans for an important advancement in Thunderbolt technology – the upcoming controller codenamed "Falcon Ridge" running at 20Gbs, a doubling of the bandwidth over the original Thunderbolt. Named "Thunderbolt™ 2", this next generation of the technology enables 4K video file transfer and display simultaneously – that's a lot of eye-popping video and data capability. It is achieved by combining the two previously independent 10Gbs channels into one 20Gbs bi-directional channel that supports data and/or display. Current versions of Thunderbolt, although faster than other PC I/O technologies on the market today, are limited to an individual 10Gbs channel each for both data and display, less than the required bandwidth for 4K video transfer. Also, the addition of DisplayPort 1.2 support in Thunderbolt 2 enables video streaming to a single 4K video monitor or dual QHD monitors. All of this is made possible with full backward compatibility to the same cables and connectors used with today's Thunderbolt. The result is great news for an industry on the cusp of widespread adoption of 4K video technologies.

"By combining 20Gbs bandwidth with DisplayPort 1.2 support, Thunderbolt 2 creates an entirely new way of thinking about 4K workflows, specifically the ability to support raw 4K video transfer and data delivery concurrently," says Jason Ziller, Marketing Director for Thunderbolt at Intel. "And our labs aren't stopping there, as demand for video and rich data transfer just continues to rise exponentially."

Professionals and enthusiasts alike will be able to create, edit, and view live 4K video streams delivered from a computer to a monitor over a single cable, while backing up the same file on an external drive, or series of drives, simultaneously along the same device daisy-chain. Backing up terabytes of data will be a question of minutes, not hours. And finally, since Thunderbolt 2 is backwards compatible, original investments in cables and connectors continue to pay off while supporting dramatically improved performance. Thunderbolt 2 is currently slated to begin production before the end of this year, and ramp into 2014.

Via: http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2013/06/video-creation-bolts-ahead-%E2%80%93-intel%E2%80%99s-thunderbolt%E2%84%A2-2-doubles-bandwidth-enabling-4k-video-transfer-display-2/

Back to Intel NUC

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:58:56 +0000

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6444/intels-next-unit-of-computing-hands-on

Top model has Thunderbolt (but very strange idea to include only USB 2.0 ports).

Expected price of barebone - $300-320

Atomos Ninja frying drive?

Gabel — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:16:28 +0000

I am an owner of a Ninja that I bought used and as such didn't get any drives with it. I decided on the new Intel 330 series, as they were very good specs at a good price. Everything worked fine in the Ninja, until after a shoot where I left the drive sitting in the caddy on the computer over night (as it was 3 in the morning and we didn't have time to go). I returned the next morning and found everything transferred, phew. But but I had an error message saying that the drive had been unmounted, so I put it into my Ninja... And it didn't register it! I couldn't even format it, to the Ninja I had "nothing" in the drive. It seemed it was dead. I heard that on the 320 series you could get the Bad Context 13x error, where if the drive was unmounted any way that wasn't perfect, it would die on you. Could this be the same here? Because if that's the case, then I'm really scared, as getting unmounted improperly can happen when you pull it in and out of different devices. It seemed to be enough to just have it pulled without the computer unmounting it...

So I wonder, can I do anything to see if I can get the drive working again? Any software, tips? I should mention that I'm a Mac user... And if not, is this a problem with the 330 drives then? If so, any tips on ones that doesn't do this? Because I can not have this happen again on a shoot!