Help with Workstation Spec

[Cyanide]

Hi guys,

It's about time I upgraded because 1) it's been a while and I miss tinkering and 2) I'm starting to struggle with video editing (rendering and exporting is taking more than twice the length of the video)

I'm looking to upgrade over the summer as I get a bit more work in so I'm just getting ideas and a budget together at the moment. I've been out of system building for quite a while and it's been years since I was on Team Blue (Q6600 was my last one!)

I'll be using Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop etc. No gaming. Happy to OC if it's needed. I'm currently doing full HD video, may be moving to 4k in the near future.

HDD's will be coming from my current build and I'll probably add a custom water loop to whatever I go with.

I'm thinking of 2 options, the more sensible, lower cost option that'll likely last a couple of years -

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel 5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - OEM (CM8064801548435) £329.99
1 x Palit GeForce GTX 970 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £254.99
1 x MSI X99S SLI Plus Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £169.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (TPKD416GM2400HC16QC01) £129.95
1 x BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower Gaming Case - Black £124.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £102.95
Total : £1,112.86 (includes shipping : ).




Or the 'to hell with it' option that'll last a loooong time -

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce Titan X 12288MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (12G-P4-2990) £899.99
1 x Asus Z10PE-D8 WS Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 EATX Dual Socket Workstation Motherboard £429.95
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 2.4GHz 6-Core with Hyperthreading (Socket 2011-3) - Retail £347.99 (£695.98)
1 x TeamGroup Elite 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (TPKD432GM2400HC16QC01) £275.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower Gaming Case - Black £124.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £102.95
Total : £2,529.84 (includes shipping : ).




There may, of course, be better options to do it so any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

Dan

 

[Cyanide]

New Specs

Seems a decent option, nice little saving there

I'm still torn on whether to save the extra and go for it to have a monster workstation but I don't know if it's too much overkill or not (if there is such a thing)

 

[Cyanide]

Hi Dan,

Just to check - are any SSD's included among those drives?

Yeh, boot and cache disks are SSD and I've got decent HDD's for my asset and output drives

 

[Cyanide]

Having done some more digging in to things it looks like adobe's CS software isn't as well tailored to highly threaded CPUs as I though so it looks like a high clocked i7 is the way to go shame, I've always wanted a dual CPU rig!