£5k to spend - go nuts

Some of the builds posted here are completely unnecessary...4 way sli? when he said he doesnt need graphics power....500gb ssd=unnecessary
Surely my build is better rounded then some above suggestions :D
i7 920 OEM x 1
Corsair H50 x 1
Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) x 2
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7
Intel X-25m 160gb x 1
Samsung F3 1tb x 2
Coolermaster ATCS 840 x 1
Corsair HX750w x 1
Sapphire 5770 x 1
Dell Ultrasharp 24'' or 30'' depending on what size you want x 1
 
Biz.Kid09 said:
Some of the builds posted here are completely unnecessary...4 way sli? when he said he doesnt need graphics power....500gb ssd=unnecessary
Surely my build is better rounded then some above suggestions :D
i7 920 OEM x 1
Corsair H50 x 1
Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) x 2
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7
Intel X-25m 160gb x 1
Samsung F3 1tb x 2
Coolermaster ATCS 840 x 1
Corsair HX750w x 1
Sapphire 5770 x 1
Dell Ultrasharp 24'' or 30'' depending on what size you want x 1
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I would either look at dual xeons or something similar to the above, only with a UD5 / PT6 and a faster cpu ;)
 
tbh for about 1000 pounds he could have a rig that does everything he needs at high res and plays games easily. Just done a not cheap quote below with stuff that is unecessary so i know that sort of money for what you want mate is mad. Unless you wanna visit earth world lol then they will charge you that for what im quoting lol
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Ok Funny kids is actually right here (well sort of).

Assuming that the application can use 16 threads and can occupy a limitless amount of memory then my recommendation would be a workstation but a windows based one because you don't need to pay for OSX if you are not going to use it.

I've just specced you up a machine on a another website. Its a workstation with two quad xeons 2.8GHz, 24GB Ram 1.5TB HDD an NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 and a 24inch dell monitor. For just about 5k.

Again this is assuming that the application will make use of all 8 cores and all that ram, otherwise you really wont get any benefit from it at all.
 
Analyzing 40MB files does not require a 'super' computer!
A £1 - £1.5k computer with the correct components would be more than adequate. 5k is complete overkill for the task at hand imho.
 
Vesta_Man said:
Analyzing 40MB files does not require a 'super' computer!
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That depends on what analysis it is doing, how many sets he is doing and how long he wants to wait. Seing as each set is 50-100 images of 40mb that potentially is huge amounts of processor time, especially as it sounds like he is doing one set after the other.

It's like saying an i7 is all you need to rip and encode a blu-ray. Until you realise they need to do 200 a day.
 
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Vesta_Man said:
Analyzing 40MB files does not require a 'super' computer!
A £1 - £1.5k computer with the correct components would be more than adequate. 5k is complete overkill for the task at hand imho.
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i like how you seem to know exactly what the OP wants to do?
 
AcidHell2 said:
That depends on what analysis it is doing, how many sets he is doing and how long he wants to wait. Seing as each set is 50-100 images of 40mb that potentially is huge amounts of processor time, especially as it sounds like he is doing one set after the other.

It's like saying an i7 is all you need to rip and encode a blu-ray. Until you realise they need to do 200 a day.
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Thats still only 4Gb which is far less than a DVD9, a modern £500 PC can tear that to pieces in no time provided the software is decent (i.e multi-threaded)
 
Vesta_Man said:
Thats still only 4Gb which is far less than a DVD9, a modern £500 PC can tear that to pieces in no time provided the software is decent (i.e multi-threaded)
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just ignored the bit about that being one set and he might have hundreds to do. It's also analysing, so it could be much more intensive than ripping, it depends what he is doing.
 
With that amount of cash mate go for a dual Xeon platform with as much RAM as you can get...

F3 or maybe raptor HDD's....raid if needed

Ignore i7 imo...it's good, very good in fact but it's still consumer level processing when you're wanting professional power :)
 
AcidHell2 said:
just ignored the bit about that being one set and he might have hundreds to do. It's also analysing, so it could be much more intensive than ripping, it depends what he is doing.
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You don't get much more intensive that multi-pass CCE 'Encoding'.
Ripping doesn't use hardly any CPU and is Dependant on HDD speed and obviously source media. /pedantic :p
 
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