thinking about getting the dual gigger

leonisleonis
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Now I am still doing the 'evaluation' to see if it's worth to trade BOTH my DP 500 and iBook for the Dual Gigger



Honestly Photoshop and Illustrator are running quite decently on my DP 500 and Cinema 4D's rendering has been unloaded from my Mac to my PIII box



The only thing that bothers me now is After Effects. AE runs absolutely fine on my DP 500 but rendering can be slow. My 1.2Ghz PIII is even worse



In other words. I basically am getting the Dual Giger JUST for After Effects.



I don't know if it's stupid for me to trade TWO machine for one just for AE.



This is quite a huge chunk of money to spend and I have to think very seriously



[ 02-18-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 13
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I am sure it will speed up cinema 4d as well as AE. I dont know if its worth giving up your iBook AND your tower for. I would just trade in the tower if at all possible. I hope it works out for you.
  • Reply 2 of 13
    jutusjutus Posts: 272member
    Voice of reason:



    Leonis, you may very well be buying into something you cannot afford (again).



    If your setup works, stay put. Stay put until it becomes unbearable and effects your revenue.



    A PMac + brand new iBook is a pretty sweet setup as it is. With devaluation on computers, you can only lose by upgrading so early in the game.
  • Reply 3 of 13
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    I know the value thing that's why l said I have to think very seriously



    Right now what I said about getting the new machine is pretty much dry talk



    [ 02-18-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
  • Reply 4 of 13
    sizzle chestsizzle chest Posts: 1,133member
    Leonis, even though you'd be getting the 1ghz dual MAINLY for AE, it would make all your other work faster too. I mean, there's nothing you could do with your 500DP that you couldn't do BETTER with the new machine.



    Of course, I don't know if I could do without my iBook!
  • Reply 5 of 13
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    I can live without the iBook





    HOWEVER, if I can figure out how to run the rendering engine on the PC I can just use both my existing G4 and the PC to do network rendering. So that I don't really have to get the dual gigger



    [ 02-18-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
  • Reply 6 of 13
    pepperpepper Posts: 15member
    Hey Leonis!



    This doesn't work with every plugin, but I use cross platform rendering for a lot of tasks. Here is a link to get you started:



    <a href="http://www.creativemac.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2001/10_oct/tutorials/aerenderfarm.htm"; target="_blank">http://www.creativemac.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2001/10_oct/tutorials/aerenderfarm.htm</a>;



    Hope this helps. As for upgrading, if you have got the cash to do so, then fine, but I try to wait till there is a machine that is 3 times faster then what I currently use. I am on a G4 DP 450, and am holding out for new motherboard and memory architecture, and hopefully a G5. These machines will probably end up being 3 times as fast as what I currently use. Its always a nice dramatic jump in performance this way. :eek:



    g4pepper
  • Reply 7 of 13
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    Acutally I really want a G5 or 1.5Ghz+ G4 w/ new mobo



    I said I 'wanted' the giger was because of the other people in this board <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />



    G4 pepper. Thanks for letting me know about that cross platform render stuff



    If this works I can wait all the way til 2003 for a "real" G5



    [ 02-19-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
  • Reply 8 of 13
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    shit. I would need the windows version of AE PB to create the cross platform render farm
  • Reply 9 of 13
    sizzle chestsizzle chest Posts: 1,133member
    That's one thing that sucks about having a dual-platform studio, and trying to swap work between computers. I'm not doing "render farm" type sharing, but often I want to move work between my main PC & Mac, which are on the same desk.
  • Reply 10 of 13
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    Well. I guess I would have to use my iBook as a secondary AE machine.



    One thing I love about Maxon (Cinema 4D) is that they ship the CD as a hybrid so that I can install the editor on Mac and install the rendering engine on a PC without paying extra money. Of course you still can install the PC version of the editor on the PC but the package only comes with one serial number to enable ONE app. But still by allowing you to install the rendering engine on different platform is MUCH appreciated.



    Adobe, in contrast, seems like a real greedy bastard



    [ 02-19-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
  • Reply 11 of 13
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    Dual Gigger is flying off the shelf very quickly in my local area.



    Even demo machines are gone. Shit I want to try them using my After Effects projects
  • Reply 12 of 13
    corvettecorvette Posts: 561member
    How about trading the Dual 500 for the 933? You may be able to get an equal trade somehow, and I'm sure it would be faster because of the new chip, and the system has 133mhz bus and memory. You would also get a superdrive. I'm pretty sure a 933 would be faster than a DP500 but not as much as a dual1ghz obviously. I wouldn't trade unless you absolutely needed too.
  • Reply 13 of 13
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    Well actually 933 is only marginally faster and sometimes even worse than my exisitng DP 500 on the stuff that I do.



    Especially getting so used to MP I don't want to go back to single, unless it's 64bit multicore G5



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