2 new Powerhouse Computers required

JasonM said:
OP, I would choose this case for a workstation build.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=ca-167-sv

these coolers are quite, and there reliable with these co fans.
http://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/freezer-i30co.html

Again for workstation you need very reliable SSD/HDD. I would be looking at Samsung 850 Pro SSD's that can sustain a large amount of writes. HDD's you need Weston Digital Black, or Weston Digital RE if your running raid. I would also look at Raid recovery on the boot drive, you can use a HDD to Raid recover an SSD.

I would also consider if you need a 6 or 8 core i7. The 6 core i7 is a huge saving over 8 core.

Any workstation build is balancing these things.
1) Noise as someone has to sit 3 foot away for maybe 40 hours a week.
2) The computer is performing a high value task, so you need to minimize downtime. So you choose high quality components, think also if a application drive fails. Whats the downtime cost of re-installing software compared to buying extra RAID disks.
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thanks for th?e suggestions. have not noticed that case before! will take a look at it
 
Doomedspeed said:
Id side with JoJo on this one, as incredible as stulids spec is you really need to look into the requirements of your software, which I don't think you have done.

CPU wise a lot of cores, virtual are important but the core speed is not so, making the Xeon a much wiser choice.

The GPU is the area you need to pay the most attention too though as if you get this choice wrong its a lot of money down the drain. I think the GPU in JoJo's spec is a wise choice. For one, a lot of these programs, adobe and maya especially, aren't able to use multi GPUs so SLI is useless, less than useless, a waste of power..

Another thing, I bought up in another thread is the performance of gaming GPUs in professional tasks. I was looking into Maya use age and found the GTX TITAN (£600ish) is outperformed two/threefold by a professional card half its price (£340). This shows how the hardware and drivers of the professional cards are so adept to these tasks. With the budget you have it would be a massive waste not to go for one, as you'd get incredible performance. Considering the range of programs you use too, a professional GPU is an obvious choice..

Take another look at JoJo's spec please..
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As mentioned, i have built gaming computers before but never a professional system such as this. I am going to do quite a bit of reading on Jojos spec tonight.

good to know about the titan too because i never even knew professional cards to buy!
 
Rroff said:
Your paying a lot for the W8100 for a card that can do both and I'm not convinced (though lacking enough information to be sure) that the DP performance and feature set is worth paying the extra for for what they are doing.

UE4 (and a lot of windows development/content creation applications also) don't tend to take advantage of SLI its true but they can be quite GPU heavy especially when working with complex, unoptimised, environments though you can use techniques like cubic/far plane clipping to reduce the GPU load but thats not really ideal.
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I am going to do some reading tonight because i am not sure either. i didd'nt know about these cards either. my main reasoning for sli was to drive 4 screens with no issue 2x4k and 2 lower res ones but will review with all the information on this thread.
 
 
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