Where's the ultima demolisher gone? High-end rendering tower spec

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Hi ppl,

Colleague at work is thinking of getting a MAC PRO for media related taks such as HD, 3D video editing all sorts of stuff that I'm really not knowledgeable about and is going to buy a mac pro as stated.

I was going to try to convince him to get the ultima demolisher but cannot find it. I'm sure it's not the number 1 seller at OcUK and perhaps they are making a new one.

Nonetheless, can someone spec me a tower that destroys a MAC PRO for similar price. Having looked at the pricing of the mac pro (christ almighty it's expensive) let's put a £5k limit on the spec.

I'm assuming that it's easy to install OSX on such a tower (similar to installing windows the first time?)

Thanks in advance
 
jamesfreddie said:
You are going to have to get a Gigabyte motherboard then.

Also you will need a mac to make the install USB.
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Do you mean a separate machine? We have loads of macs at work - that's not a problem. We just don't have a mac pro.

Damn, I was just doing a spec from OcUK but they don't have the Gigabyte board.

One another question was I assume than an Nvidia card would be better for those sorts of taks? I wouldn't want to get a 580 right now would prefer to get a 7950/7970 but as it's not for gaming, I'll need advice on what GPU to include.
 
I had this in my basket but I guess we'd have to get the mobo from somewhere else.


2x Intel Xeon X5650 2.66GHz (Westmere) (Socket 1366) - Retail
£1,437.60

EVGA Classified SR-2 Intel 5520 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard (270-WS-W555-ER)
£499.98

MSI ATI Radeon HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
£437.99

Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT256M4SSD2)
£287.99

Corsair Professional Series AX1200 High Performance 1200W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply (CMPSU-1200AXUK)
£244.99

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
£179.99

Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred (V3 with USB3.0) Ultimate Gaming Case - Black
£149.99 - would have really wanted the Lian Li case that the Demolisher came in so might get that elsewhere with the Gigabyte mobo

2x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001)
£215.98

Pioneer BDR-S06XLB 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail)
£89.99

4x Corsair Vengeance 12GB (3x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel Kit (CMZ12GX3M3A1600C9)
£319.96

LG GH24NS70 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - Retail
£19.99

Sub Total : £3,237.04

Total : £3,904.67
 
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jamesfreddie said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £274.99
1 x Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £157.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £149.99
1 x Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £143.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 600TM Midi Tower Mesh Windowed Case - Black £134.99
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 650W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXV2UK) £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £67.99
2 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £39.98 (£79.96)
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £1,151.38 (includes shipping : £13.75).



What do you think?
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I think it's good if I was buying it myself and being worried about price/performance. The company is paying, so VAT will be gone and the chap buying it is about to dump around £5k with apple so I'm trying to show him that he can get a MUCH better machine for less rather than a slightly less good machine for MUCH less money.
 
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