Ripping doesn't use hardly any CPU and is Dependant on HDD speed and obviously source media. /pedantic
Which is why you get a 30% decrees in time with an i7 compared to a Qxxxx, despite having the same hard drive.
£5k to spend - go nuts
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Which is why you get a 30% decrees in time with an i7 compared to a Qxxxx, despite having the same hard drive.
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Cray TBH
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Dell Ultrasharp 3008WFP 30" Widescreen LCD Monitor - £1134.99
2x OCZ Vertex Series 250GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive - £1,257.98
Palit GeForce GTS 250 Green 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £86.99
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard - £263.99
2x Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM - £511.98
Corsair Obsidian 800D Full Tower Case - Black - £214.99
Intel Core i7 950 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 3.06Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail - £464.99
2x OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 2000MHz PC3-16000C10 Low-Voltage Triple Channel (OCZ3G2000LV6GK) - £347.38
Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850HXUK) - £129.99
Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) - £58.99
LG GH22LS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter Lightscribe Drive - Retail - £22.99
Total - £4,515.92
This would be a very fast setup. I don't know if you need a 30" monitor but for a £5000 budget I thought I might aswell include it.
2x OCZ Vertex Series 250GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive - £1,257.98
Palit GeForce GTS 250 Green 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £86.99
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard - £263.99
2x Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM - £511.98
Corsair Obsidian 800D Full Tower Case - Black - £214.99
Intel Core i7 950 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 3.06Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail - £464.99
2x OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 2000MHz PC3-16000C10 Low-Voltage Triple Channel (OCZ3G2000LV6GK) - £347.38
Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850HXUK) - £129.99
Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) - £58.99
LG GH22LS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter Lightscribe Drive - Retail - £22.99
Total - £4,515.92
This would be a very fast setup. I don't know if you need a 30" monitor but for a £5000 budget I thought I might aswell include it.
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Seems like people aren't reading the op, he doesn't want a gaming rig.
I would say one of the dual socket 1366 boards with plenty of ram. I don't know enough to make a proper recommendation, like most of the people in this thread.
I would say one of the dual socket 1366 boards with plenty of ram. I don't know enough to make a proper recommendation, like most of the people in this thread.
Thats what is was thinking, wouldnt even risk that on my home build lol
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As people have said you probably want to be looking at a dual socket Xeon based workstation.
I would be talking to the software's developers, they might well have a list of certified hardware.
EDIT: And ignore people who are just speccing uber gaming rigs.
I would be talking to the software's developers, they might well have a list of certified hardware.
EDIT: And ignore people who are just speccing uber gaming rigs.
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It's a sealed unit and won't leak unless you try taking it apart.
but they have leaked without people taking them apart
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Any reason why you couldn't buy 2 x i7/920 (non extreme) rigs for £5k? KVM them to a single good monitor and link them both (gigabit) to a nas and have them both tasking overnight?
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LIES!
I think you will be better off waiting for the new EVGA bored to come out which will offer you a dual socket with 12 DIMM slots. What you need is a server, NOT a games machine! Seriously people stop advising the man to get your dream games machine; he doesn't need a stupid graphics card 
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My advice to you if you want a truly horsepower crazy computer is to wait until the Intel Gulftown CPUs come out, get an EVGA dual socket bored and put 2 of them in, that will give you a 12 core server like machine, couple that with 12-24GB of Server RAM if possible, along with a few 1tb drives in a mirror RAID arrary for on the fly backup (SSD's are pretty useless for the capacity/requirements you will need) and you will have yourself an extremely powerful workstation computer.
The bored I'm on about:
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17069/1/
.My advice to you if you want a truly horsepower crazy computer is to wait until the Intel Gulftown CPUs come out, get an EVGA dual socket bored and put 2 of them in, that will give you a 12 core server like machine, couple that with 12-24GB of Server RAM if possible, along with a few 1tb drives in a mirror RAID arrary for on the fly backup (SSD's are pretty useless for the capacity/requirements you will need) and you will have yourself an extremely powerful workstation computer.
The bored I'm on about:
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17069/1/
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Is the software multi threaded ?
If so: buy a dual or even quad socket server from Dell or HP. Stuff it with ram to prevent swapping on the image sets.
The other big plus is that this is a WORK application and you would get onsite hardware warranty something you will not get with a custom system from OcUK.
As someone else has also suggested, talk to the software supplier for hardware recommendations.
If so: buy a dual or even quad socket server from Dell or HP. Stuff it with ram to prevent swapping on the image sets.
The other big plus is that this is a WORK application and you would get onsite hardware warranty something you will not get with a custom system from OcUK.
As someone else has also suggested, talk to the software supplier for hardware recommendations.
funny how corsair replaced some fine working non leaking h50's then
Always a distinct risk of people responding with complete crap when something like this is posted. Apologies to the OP.
Can you clarify what the software can take advantage of? If the workload can be offloaded to gpu then the nvidia quadro cards make a lot of sense. If it cannot, they don't. Your friend who specced four GT120s from apple evidently doesn't know what he's doing either, as quad sli with ludicrously weak gaming cards is not the way to do gpu processing.
If it is cpu only and heavily multithreaded, which seems likely, then I agree with the people saying dual socket xeon is the way to go. If it is not multithreaded, then a heavily clocked single socket i7 with hyperthreading off and possibly two cores disabled (if it's not at all multithreaded) is the best option short of rewriting the code. Splitting it across several computers will be the most economically sound if you can split the workload efficiently. I also second the notion that buying from someone that provides hardware support makes more sense than a custom build, on the proviso that you don't have to run it all on one or two threads.
If this relies on heavy disk access then ssds will prove their worth. I'm afraid the OP is too vague to get specific answers here. I'm also sorry that a lot of people saw 5k and thought "rich & stupid gaming noob" without actually reading anything.
Can you clarify what the software can take advantage of? If the workload can be offloaded to gpu then the nvidia quadro cards make a lot of sense. If it cannot, they don't. Your friend who specced four GT120s from apple evidently doesn't know what he's doing either, as quad sli with ludicrously weak gaming cards is not the way to do gpu processing.
If it is cpu only and heavily multithreaded, which seems likely, then I agree with the people saying dual socket xeon is the way to go. If it is not multithreaded, then a heavily clocked single socket i7 with hyperthreading off and possibly two cores disabled (if it's not at all multithreaded) is the best option short of rewriting the code. Splitting it across several computers will be the most economically sound if you can split the workload efficiently. I also second the notion that buying from someone that provides hardware support makes more sense than a custom build, on the proviso that you don't have to run it all on one or two threads.
If this relies on heavy disk access then ssds will prove their worth. I'm afraid the OP is too vague to get specific answers here. I'm also sorry that a lot of people saw 5k and thought "rich & stupid gaming noob" without actually reading anything.
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Thanks for the replies. Much appreciated. I had lost track of the Intel road maps (the last chip I bought was an E4500!), particularly the high end stuff. We will be going with a server type machine rather than a desktop, as recommended, and stuffing it with as much ram and storage as possible. We can use an existing NAS for storage as well. The software does use multi-threading and is being developed for CUDA so some kind of high end Quadro graphics card might be worth investing in. We are in communication with the software developers for their recommended chipsets and will have to investigate the graphics hardware. The 1st pass quote of 4x sli geforce cards was not optimum as pointed out by many replies, and was their generic "high end machine". The Apple quote was why I got involved in the purchasing as I could see the system could be optimized towards its particular application than buying an off the shelf "fast computer" and probably save some money (particularly the Geforce 120's). So I headed to overclockers forums for some quick re-training in what was current!
We will probably get a pre-built server from a manufacturer like Dell to get their on-site support and warranty, which means no water cooling or overclocking, but the budget should provide enough room to get sufficiently fast stock processor speeds. I had a look at the Cray CX1 but they start at £24k which is a bit too high!
I'm interested to see what the Gulftown Xeon 5600 or I7 series are like. There might be time to wait until they are released.
I wish a was a rich gaming noob with a £5k budget.... although if they decide to get a Quadro card it might run Crysis....
We will probably get a pre-built server from a manufacturer like Dell to get their on-site support and warranty, which means no water cooling or overclocking, but the budget should provide enough room to get sufficiently fast stock processor speeds. I had a look at the Cray CX1 but they start at £24k which is a bit too high!
I'm interested to see what the Gulftown Xeon 5600 or I7 series are like. There might be time to wait until they are released.
I wish a was a rich gaming noob with a £5k budget.... although if they decide to get a Quadro card it might run Crysis....
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I used to work in DIP R&D. We used to build our own machines all the time. We never had £5k to spend on each machine though. 
The bottleneck for us was always raw CPU power. Anything involving image or video processing is usually easily multi-threaded so that helps. RAM was less of an issue as the images weren't particularly big compared the amount of calculations required per image. A beefy graphics card was even further down the priority list. As long as the image quality was good and it had the right outputs, nothing else really mattered.
For £5k, I'd skip consumer-quality components. Get a system with dual Xeons, a nice wedge of RAM, an SSD/RAID array, minimal graphics card and a quality monitor. The Mac Pro will do nicely though I'm sure that there's cheaper options.
The bottleneck for us was always raw CPU power. Anything involving image or video processing is usually easily multi-threaded so that helps. RAM was less of an issue as the images weren't particularly big compared the amount of calculations required per image. A beefy graphics card was even further down the priority list. As long as the image quality was good and it had the right outputs, nothing else really mattered.
For £5k, I'd skip consumer-quality components. Get a system with dual Xeons, a nice wedge of RAM, an SSD/RAID array, minimal graphics card and a quality monitor. The Mac Pro will do nicely though I'm sure that there's cheaper options.
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Yes EVA (spelling the guys who make the "classified" boards).
I'd wait until the end of Q1 and get a dual i7 or dual Xeon setup for sure. For CUDA work get a Tesla cards and not Quatro cards (they are very expensive though).