Help with Workstation Spec

Cyanide

Cyanide

Cyanide

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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
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infin8 Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **WorldWide Exclusive** £275.99
1 x MSI X99S SLI Plus - TeamGroup 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 Intel X99 Motherboard Bundle **£40 OFF** £259.94
- 1 x Intel 5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K) £335.99
1 x Antec P100 Mid Tower Case & HCG-620M 620W 80+ Bronze Modular PSU Bundle £120.91
Total : £992.83 (includes shipping : ).




A silenced case to go with a money saving board/cpu/RAM bundle.

The 620W PSU is fine for a single 970.

Cards like the MSI or ASUS strix run passive at idle.

And use a cheap AIO in the mean time - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-012-AN

If you want a case to do a custom loop inside then check out Phanteks.
 
Cyanide said:
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)
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You could always go for that option and then if you find you need more power straight away in terms of a new graphics card or RAM then you can add it in.

The "monster" one will be amazing but may also be a waste if you don't really need it right now! When you move to 4k properly you could evaluate how your PC is and maybe add a top graphics card or RAM etc then if you needed it!
 
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!
 
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