So, I just wanted to illustrate something about what we're doing here.
I'm currently in the process of re-doing a remaster video that was posted recently on here, but with a more robust process that will really "turn up the *wow factor*" to a degree that I genuinely think is going to blow some minds. :) It's kind of the "next step" in what our ability will be on this channel, though we are going to have to use it a bit sparingly for the time being. Let me explain!
That number on the screen -- (547 watts) -- is the current consumption of just the graphics card on one of three computers I have running in parallel on a video editing project.
That’s just the graphics card in the computer using 547 watts, not the total power consumption of each individual computer. So, 1650 watts being used just by 3 graphics cards. In additon to this 1650 watts, there's also "All the rest of the stuff that makes a powerful computer powerrul eating up power while this is happening.. the grpahics cards are just the biggest chunk of power in each individual computer.
These are also the most efficient (and the most powerful) graphics cards on the market, and this wattage genuinely isn't even full tilt (though it's close, they're rated for 600 watts each)
Altogether I assume the computers are using between 2500-3000 watts (plus the power usage of the file server and networking equipment (throw in another 500+ watts there!)
This single process will consume about 40 hours of compute time across the machines, and that is to get to a point wire I can move to the next step in the job on this *one video* (one show) ... which will have another solid day in ediitng all said and done.
I would note that this is not every video, and it's not even most videos, but even scaled back, i'm sure anyone that pays an electirc bill is feeling their butthole pucker up realizing how much power this uses even using hte most efficenet equipment on the market.
So, if you ever wonder *why* we are always very concerned about the cost of operations, things like patreon, and why we solicit voluntary donations to the project, this stuff is running all the time. There is 5 figures in equipment and it always needs upgraded and maintained, we have storage needs that are astronomical, and now that you see the numbers, I'm sure you can imagine what this does to an electric bill :)
Someone wanna buy me some solar panels??? 🤣
Anyways -- Just a shout out to everyone who has ever helped us, to the people who continue to help us, and to just everyone who has supported this channel in any way. We are always striving to get better at what we do. And a reminder that we genuinely *always* rely on the patreons and random people who donate to this channel to keep it moving.
I did not mention that during the time between the fundraiser we did and when I started posting videos again -- I happened to buy *another* rtx 5090 graphics card ($2000) because I got called up in the NVidia "raffle" where they "allow you to purchase a new card at MSRP prices" (because they are so scarce right now, they have to do it this way... these cards are selling for $3000 quite often. I was able to recover most of the money by selling the "RTX 4090" graphics card that was in the comptuer -- which had just gone out of warranty, on ebay for almost the same price as I paid for the brand new 5090 with a brand new 3 year warranty :) (That did add to the downtime, but it also worked out really well and "only" cost a couple hundred bucks to do a pretty significant upgrade.. . moving us almost entirely to the latest hardware (still will need to rebuild the rest of that computer at some point, but it's not a pressing matter right now!)
Anyways I realize I've lost a lot of people with the technobabble :)
The point here is .. Thank you to the people who support this channel. We 1000% could not do it without your support. That said, please never feel obligated to send us money.
I think everyone will be nicely impressed with what we are able to do with this sample show. I won't yet be able to do a lot of full shows the way we're about to produce this one, but it's a glimpse of things to come, and I do plan on doing at least a lot of singles in the meantime.. Obviously, the costs are just very prohibitive even when you're just factoring electricity... Running 2.5-3 kilowatts 24/7 isn't cheap at all :) (If you've ever been an indoor gardner, I'm sure you know, except... that stuff used to make a lot of money!) :D
Anyways -- just thought I'd share this so people could visuallize the "holy crap" factor of how intensive this can be. (and again, I think everyone will be very impressed with the results!)
Christopher Hazard
So, I just wanted to illustrate something about what we're doing here.
I'm currently in the process of re-doing a remaster video that was posted recently on here, but with a more robust process that will really "turn up the *wow factor*" to a degree that I genuinely think is going to blow some minds. :)
It's kind of the "next step" in what our ability will be on this channel, though we are going to have to use it a bit sparingly for the time being. Let me explain!
That number on the screen -- (547 watts) -- is the current consumption of just the graphics card on one of three computers I have running in parallel on a video editing project.
That’s just the graphics card in the computer using 547 watts, not the total power consumption of each individual computer. So, 1650 watts being used just by 3 graphics cards. In additon to this 1650 watts, there's also "All the rest of the stuff that makes a powerful computer powerrul eating up power while this is happening.. the grpahics cards are just the biggest chunk of power in each individual computer.
These are also the most efficient (and the most powerful) graphics cards on the market, and this wattage genuinely isn't even full tilt (though it's close, they're rated for 600 watts each)
Altogether I assume the computers are using between 2500-3000 watts (plus the power usage of the file server and networking equipment (throw in another 500+ watts there!)
This single process will consume about 40 hours of compute time across the machines, and that is to get to a point wire I can move to the next step in the job on this *one video* (one show) ... which will have another solid day in ediitng all said and done.
I would note that this is not every video, and it's not even most videos, but even scaled back, i'm sure anyone that pays an electirc bill is feeling their butthole pucker up realizing how much power this uses even using hte most efficenet equipment on the market.
So, if you ever wonder *why* we are always very concerned about the cost of operations, things like patreon, and why we solicit voluntary donations to the project, this stuff is running all the time. There is 5 figures in equipment and it always needs upgraded and maintained, we have storage needs that are astronomical, and now that you see the numbers, I'm sure you can imagine what this does to an electric bill :)
Someone wanna buy me some solar panels??? 🤣
Anyways -- Just a shout out to everyone who has ever helped us, to the people who continue to help us, and to just everyone who has supported this channel in any way. We are always striving to get better at what we do. And a reminder that we genuinely *always* rely on the patreons and random people who donate to this channel to keep it moving.
I did not mention that during the time between the fundraiser we did and when I started posting videos again -- I happened to buy *another* rtx 5090 graphics card ($2000) because I got called up in the NVidia "raffle" where they "allow you to purchase a new card at MSRP prices" (because they are so scarce right now, they have to do it this way... these cards are selling for $3000 quite often. I was able to recover most of the money by selling the "RTX 4090" graphics card that was in the comptuer -- which had just gone out of warranty, on ebay for almost the same price as I paid for the brand new 5090 with a brand new 3 year warranty :) (That did add to the downtime, but it also worked out really well and "only" cost a couple hundred bucks to do a pretty significant upgrade.. . moving us almost entirely to the latest hardware (still will need to rebuild the rest of that computer at some point, but it's not a pressing matter right now!)
Anyways I realize I've lost a lot of people with the technobabble :)
The point here is .. Thank you to the people who support this channel. We 1000% could not do it without your support. That said, please never feel obligated to send us money.
I think everyone will be nicely impressed with what we are able to do with this sample show. I won't yet be able to do a lot of full shows the way we're about to produce this one, but it's a glimpse of things to come, and I do plan on doing at least a lot of singles in the meantime.. Obviously, the costs are just very prohibitive even when you're just factoring electricity... Running 2.5-3 kilowatts 24/7 isn't cheap at all :) (If you've ever been an indoor gardner, I'm sure you know, except... that stuff used to make a lot of money!) :D
Anyways -- just thought I'd share this so people could visuallize the "holy crap" factor of how intensive this can be. (and again, I think everyone will be very impressed with the results!)
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