nice rig.

Thanks hugs

thats complete overkill for photo processing. XD

Not for hdr gigapan

less overkill, but still overkill

LOL true but I'll still take the extra power

Can it run Crysis on max settings?

Yes Crysis, skyrim, battlefield 3, rage.

How much did the WC setup cost? looking at maybe something in the future to get my quad past 4Ghz

GRAND TOTAL: About $3500

Thats not too bad for everything :3

motherboard and video card kill me

yeah I bet. could have gone with a less powerful GPU and still been able to get about the same performance.

well I got a good price on it

how much was it

$550

ouch, I'd hate to know what the non sale price on that is

$720.

yeah i'll stick with my $300 cards XD

it was a good deal so I jumped on it

I wanna upgrade to a 6 core but im lazy and they already have the 8 cores out from AMD, but then if i spend that, i may as well spend a little more and run dual 12's D: but then you run into your kind of setup doing that. and im far too broke for that venture

dual cpu are nice but you run into more expensive, more hardware, bigger cases i think. the good side more power, don't have the updated this often.

Im using a case that can go up to E-ATX motherboards thankfully, and my server goes up to standard ATX, so if i upgrade in the future, all the spare/replacement parts will go into the server to upgrade it. its a win/win situation there. but yea its the initial cost of doing that kind of setup that's the real issue.

word advice if you really wanna upgrade just start throwing some money off the side.

hehe, my computer has been able to handle everything i've thrown at it. including the CPU topping out at 226F when my H50 cooler decided to die on me. I need a better monitor and some Calibration software/hardware.

new monitor and Calibration system would be very nice and water cooler system very nice my run about 100f to 150f. on top of that I have 2 safety systems in play temperature shut off and pressure/flow shut off.

yeah, I've been looking into the 27" plus range for monitors something with a 97.5% aRGB or higher.

where have you been looking at for one??

Amazon, Newegg, B&H. those are my main 3 areas that I search

what brand name or just a 27"?

anything within that size range thats 97% adobe RGB or higher, doesnt matter what brand. I'd kill for an EIZO but thats just wishful thinking

I know what you mean they are great. I worked with a photographer who has one.

our photo lab has the 24 Eizo's and most of our regular labs have the 27" imac's which those are pretty damn nice screens if calibrated.

what type calibrate system would you buy?

I've heard good things about the Spyder 3 pro and nothing beats a grey card/passport colorchecker for in photo calibration to help with batch CC

very true gray card is the better way lol.
I would like to calibrate a monitor because I do a lot of hdr I would like to get true color.

I want to try some indoor HDR, like for real estate work. would be a fun job to take on

if there a such a high demand for it I would been done by now. I just wish there were

its been done for a while, HDR is nothing new, just like Tilt-Shift/miniatures are nothing new. it just takes someone/group of people to bring the idea to enough people for it to spread.

true HDR is old but finding good hdr photo is little hard i think, because over saturation of colors and I see a lot of haloing

http://afeinphoto-com.deviantart.com/

that guy has amazingly well done DR photographs

Nice

Do you have a reservoir for the cooling system? looks like a lot of air in the lines

Yes it is a front bay reservoir with a water pump. true there is air there but it has finally settled

O god xD

I paid 1050$ and i can run Crysys 2 at max whit a radeon 6950 D=

Why buy such a best xD?

For me sound more better to buy a 1000$ machine that runs everything every 3 years xD

Aldaught youl never miss out on the power suply daught =P

for I don't have to update is the next 3 or 4 years

PS: CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLE MANAGEMENT O.O

CRY don't remind me

This. ;)

I think u need more fans in there =) lol Its very nice , I want the new usb 3.0 , I am a photographer and would like to get a 3T external drive to back up all my photos but u know how long it will take with just my usb2.0 0-well , Have a great day =)

Nice setup but one thing; Photoshop doesn't support ATI video card acceleration, only nVidia card acceleration. Would need an nVidia card to get the hardware boost in Photoshop. The RAM and CPUs probably make up for it, but still.

mmmm seems like my graphics card supports fine on Photoshop. with the panorama was in the HDR I get no real leak.

thank you

It's not a matter of support. The card will work fine in Photoshop, it's a matter of the video card actually helping to do the number crunching for the Photoshop algorithms, which it will not if it's ATI:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/adobe-cs5-cuda-64-bit,2770.html

"Employing CUDA. At this early stage of the industry’s adoption of general purpose GPU acceleration, Adobe has started to weave in support for Nvidia’s CUDA platform. We hope that OpenCL and/or DirectCompute support follows soon, but for now we have to examine CUDA as a case study in what exists today and a harbinger of what will come."

ATI/AMD is not capable of running CUDA.

photoshop run great!
looking that your photo look good.

baseline with the dual Xeon's there's enough power behind it that the graphics card will keep up with most of my Photoshop anyways.