sanjeev ram Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 Hello Everyone, I’m new here, below is the configuration of our assembled Display PC CPU HexaCore Intel Core i7-8700, 4500 MHz (45 x 100) Motherboard Asus ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming (4 PCI-E x1, 3 PCI-E x16, 2 M.2, 4 DDR4 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN) RAM https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/Categories/Products/Memory/VENGEANCE%C2%AE- LPX-16GB-%281x16GB%29-DDR4-DRAM-2400MHz-C16-Memory-Kit--- Black/p/CMK16GX4M1A2400C16 * 2 Video Card https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1060-ARMOR-6G-OC.html Capture Card https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/in/products/decklink/techspecs/W-DLK-33 And https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/in/products/decklink/techspecs/W-DLK-31 OS Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (500 GB, SATA-III) Media WDC WD2003FZEX-00SRLA0 (2 TB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III) * 2 in RAID 0 Network Switch https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/sg-100d-08-8-port-gigabit-switch/model.html OR https://www.linksys.com/in/p/P-LGS108/ Power Supply https://www.corsair.com/us/en/en-eu/rmx-series-rm750x-750-watt-80-plus-gold-certified-fully-modular-psu Cabinet https://www.antec.com/product/case/vsk4000e-u3.html Software Windows 8.1 Professional Production PC http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-7000-gaming/spd/inspiron-15-7567-laptop/dncwf510s OR http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-5000-gaming/spd/inspiron-15-5577-gaming-laptop/fncwpi404h This system would be basically used to Drive led walls of resolution up to 5000*1280 pixels Primary purpose is Annual Gatherings, Corporate meetings and Award Functions With usually 1or 2 live camera Inputs and 1 laptop input for presentation Purposes. Currently I work as a led show operator and trying watchout for the first time. We outsource our watchout requirements as and when required, Looking forward for your valuable suggestions and Inputs to configure the system, waiting for the Dongles to arrive in the next 2-3 days. Additions or changes to the above are welcome… Thanks in advance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackboyd Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 I've used the blackmagic cards quite a bit, but know they have significant latency that makes them pretty much unusable for IMAG(if that's your intent). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member jochri Posted March 27, 2018 Member Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 16 hours ago, sanjeev ram said: Hey! Welcome to the World of Watchout! Please find my suggestions: CPU HexaCore Intel Core i7-8700, 4500 MHz (45 x 100) It only has 16 PCIe Lanes. Thats just enough to connect your graphics card... Get as many lanes as possible: i9 7900x has 44 Lanes. Still consumer hardware. Go for Xeons if you want reliability. Especially the Xeon W-2145 is the best combination of single core performance and number of cores. I run 8 Cores at an all core turbo of 4,25 Ghz 24/7. Motherboard Asus ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming (4 PCI-E x1, 3 PCI-E x16, 2 M.2, 4 DDR4 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN) I got nothing but problems with consumer Asus boards so far. Go for Workstation or server grade hardware! Supermicro for example or Asus Xeon Motherboards! Options: http://b2b.gigabyte.com/Server-Motherboard/MW51-HP0-rev-10#ov https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/WS-C422-PRO-SE/ ftp://ftp.ts.fujitsu.com/pub/mainboard-oem-sales/products/Mainboards/Industrial&ExtendedLifetime/D3598-B/Documentation/DS_D3598-B.pdf https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C420/X11SRA.cfm RAM https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/Categories/Products/Memory/VENGEANCE%C2%AE- LPX-16GB-%281x16GB%29-DDR4-DRAM-2400MHz-C16-Memory-Kit--- Black/p/CMK16GX4M1A2400C16 * 2 32GB should be in your machine to be future ready! Video Card https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1060-ARMOR-6G-OC.html You will miss the EDID & sync functions. Current options AMD WX 7100, WX9100, Quaddro P5000 + S400 or NVIDIA Quaddra sync! Capture Card https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/in/products/decklink/techspecs/W-DLK-33 And https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/in/products/decklink/techspecs/W-DLK-31 OKI OS Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (500 GB, SATA-III) ok! Media WDC WD2003FZEX-00SRLA0 (2 TB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III) * 2 in RAID 0 Forget about SATA Hard Drives! NVME is the way to go and its getting cheaper every day. Stay away from m.2 and buy u.2 or PCIe. Samsung PM1725a, Intel P4500, Micron Network Switch https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/sg-100d-08-8-port-gigabit-switch/model.html OR https://www.linksys.com/in/p/P-LGS108/ 10 G is getting cheaper and cheaper! One option to get cheap into 10G: D-Link DXS-1100-10TS - 8 port 10GBASE-T, 2 port SFP+ Quote Power Supply https://www.corsair.com/us/en/en-eu/rmx-series-rm750x-750-watt-80-plus-gold-certified-fully-modular-psu Cabinet https://www.antec.com/product/case/vsk4000e-u3.html Software Windows 8.1 Professional Well I would suggest Win 10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjeev ram Posted March 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 On 3/27/2018 at 9:24 PM, zackboyd said: I've used the blackmagic cards quite a bit, but know they have significant latency that makes them pretty much unusable for IMAG(if that's your intent). IMAG? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted March 29, 2018 Moderator Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 2 hours ago, sanjeev ram said: IMAG? Image Magnification. Typically a camera pointed at a podium to magnify the image of the presenter so that all in the room can clearly see him. Since the live presenter and his magnified image are both visible to the viewer, delay / latency is quite noticeable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjeev ram Posted March 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 3 minutes ago, jfk said: Image Magnification. Typically a camera pointed at a podium to magnify the image of the presenter so that all in the room can clearly see him. Since the live presenter and his magnified image are both visible to the viewer, delay / latency is quite noticeable. So what would you suggest to overcome it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dataton Partner RBeddig Posted March 29, 2018 Dataton Partner Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 The better option would be capture cards from Datapath or maybe Magewell. Datapath's drivers are way better than the Blackmagic drivers and they give support while Blackmagic does not know this word at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted March 29, 2018 Moderator Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 58 minutes ago, sanjeev ram said: So what would you suggest to overcome it. So far, the best I have seen is a DataPath capture card in WATCHOUT 6. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjeev ram Posted March 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 15 hours ago, jfk said: So far, the best I have seen is a DataPath capture card in WATCHOUT 6. Have Shortlisted the following components for now... https://www.datapath.co.uk/video-capture-cards/visionav-range/visionav-hd https://www.datapath.co.uk/video-capture-cards/vision-range/visionsdi2 Will be updating my display machine after i become proficient . Thanks for your valuable inputs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomT Posted March 31, 2018 Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 After always having a lot of troubles with the BM capture-cards (sometimes working, sometimes not, I switched to Datapath Vision-Series:https://www.datapath.co.uk/video-capture-cards Plug-in, install driver, select it in WO and finished. Always working. And just a little bit more expensive then BM. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brecht Posted April 5, 2018 Report Share Posted April 5, 2018 I ordered the Datapath VisionLC-HD2: https://www.datapath.co.uk/datapath-products/video-capture-cards/visionlc-range/visionlc-hd2 Will give an update when installed. I have Decklinks now, but Datapath capture cards supposedly accept resolutions/frequenties without having to set it up in the computer itself through a software like with the decklink cards. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikita Kale Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 I would like to add another question here: a. are USB based capture cards better? b. what capture cards in Magewell would you recommend? we usually use this for IMAG, presentations, heavy graphics content for 4k by 1k screens 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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