Wildlife Photography across the Water: New PC

Thursday 30 June 2011

New PC

Well i seem to have talked about it for ages but i have finally managed to get a new PC on order, Its pretty high spec and i purposely did it that way so it will last for a few years without locking up when new power hungry software is introduced, Here is the spec

Coolermaster HAF-X Gaming Full Tower Case w/ 1x230mm Red LED Fan, 1x200mm Fans, 2xFront USB 3.0 Port
Intel® Core™ i7-2600K 3.40 GHz 8M Intel Smart Cache LGA1155
CyberPower Xtreme Hydro Liquid Cooling Kit 360MM w/ Triple Fan
Asus Maximus IV Extreme ROG Intel P67 Chipset DDR3 ATX Mainboard
16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/1333MHz Dual Channel Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB 16X PCIe Video Card
850 Watts - Corsair Professional Series CMPSU-AX850 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
120 GB OCZ Vertex 3 SATA III 6.0G/s Gaming MLC Solid State Disk
3TB (3TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD
Sony 24X Double Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive
INTERNAL 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer
Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit
Microsoft® Office® 2010 Home and Business (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook + OneNote)

I have been looking and reading for months and after asking some advise from those in the know i pulled the plug and dropped plenty of money, Its being built by CyberpowerPC's in California and will take a couple of weeks to be built and shipped
I looked long and hard at the new Imac from Apple and i really do like them but there are reports of people having problems with the screen-a different problem to last years model where the colour white faded to yellow but more like severe dust under the screen, This means a replacement which is a pain, I also read an interesting article from OWC and it seems that you can not add and replace hard drives yourself which is ridiculous, One thing i dont understand and to me is typically Apple is that you get the new super dooper thunderbolt ports and then instead of adding USB 3 ports to support them they still have USB2 , To me Apple give with one hand and then take with the other, I really wanted to go to Apple but you are getting last years product at next years price, My new PC will walk all over the Apple at a lower cost

I cant wait for it to arrive and put it through its paces, To be able to have CS5, Breezebrowser and Capture One open and the PC not hang will be heaven

Dave

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Bio's

David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.