Well done Paq. It is great picture and looks like a worthy winner.

Hi Michael, this cooling system sounds great ..., can't wait to have the little box :)


Thanks Tony !

Hi PaQ, there is also a page here that describes that cooling system and has some pictures:
http://eu.shuttle.com/archive/en/faq_ice.htm

That works so well to cool the CPU that I would worry quite a bit more about the video card cooling actually rather than the CPU! That's why it is maybe not so great to try and put a super maxed out video card in these little boxes. The one they have along with that box sounds like a good fit though, modern and powerful but not one of the really power hungry ones.

That really sounds like a nice little box, major score! :)

- Michael

Thanks for the link Michael, looks pretty smart compared to my actual box with the default noisy intel fans.
The ati seems fine too, ... have to thing to something else, otherwise I will not sleep :)

Again PaQ ?!
Can you leave some prizes for the rest of us ;)

Well done PaQ good going there :)

Cheers

Opps I miss your comment Danny :) Thanks for you kind of congratulation !

Btw, interessting softwave for HDR studio setup :

http://www.hdrlightstudio.com/features.html

Interesting. But seems a bit pricey for what it does. Can't most top-level render apps produce HDRI or EXR images to use as GI light sources? For example, I can output both HDR and EXR images from Brazil for Rhino in all common HDRI lens shapes (panaromic, spherical, etc) using any scene geometry/lights when i render. And of course a fully-developed render engine can do so much more than just make studio lighting, such as using gels, mask patterns, etc.... Other rendering apps (Lighwave, C4D, Mental Ray) can't do this too? Sorry i just don't know much about the abilities of those render apps...

jonah

Hi PaQ, by the way did you receive your little power system prize yet?

Is that what you put Windows 7 on?

- Michael

Hi jbshorty,

Well I'm not ready to buy a licence at the moment, will try the demo first.

Looks like the main focus of this app are softwares like snapshots, that completely depend on hdr image map to lit the scene, and where you can't create you
env map yourself.

Yes today every softwares can render spherical hdr map I guess, but the setup time is slow compare to this more less realtime solution, you have many time left for experiment. I agree for the price, but hdr collection are quite expensive too, and you don't have any freedom except turing the map around until you get the reflection you want.

Btw here's an other really nice collection.

http://www.hdrlighting.com/hdrimages.html

Hi Michael,

No 'they' didn't send it yet :'( ... I did the seven installation on a old hard drive, but in my current computer.