Best computer for Filmmaking

whats your budget?

If your really legit i would contact alex because i don't know much about workstation builds and he probably would know more than i do. His email is: [email protected]

Well yeah, I basically picked all the highest settings. I'm not really good at building PC's myself, so I am thankful for a service such as this [DigitalStorm].

What is wrong with my setup?

Well i almost guerentee you will never need more than 12gb of ram so you can take it down to that.
Second the killer card is a complete waste. There is no proof it works and t is in no way worth $200.
Don't upgrade to the Zalman fans they are extremely noisy.
I wouldn't get screens speakers keyboard or mouse from DS because there is much better selection on amazon.com or newegg.com plus they charge extra shipping for them.
I guess thats the best semi rediculus workstation build.
You could look into the sub zero build if you wanted but i don't think that can use workstation chips.

WB?

oh yea water block. yea but they don't offer the workstation gpu yet. maybe its somethng to come in the future from ds?

First off, I'm not a film maker so there are some things I wouldn't be too sure on.  One, that is RAM utilization.  Just in case the RAM utilization is outrageous I put it in my build, but I really don't see you going over 24gb utilization, hell not even 12gb.  However, I'm not a film maker so maybe someone can chime in here. 
Here is my recommendation.  I say you go with this case setup, but listen carefully here.  See if Digital Storm can give you the Dual CPU setup on the SR-2 motherboard with the new SUB 0 cooling.  Because, I do believe film making is highly cpu based, so this workstation kind of build along with the offerings in cooling and space the Syndicate can give you is very nice.  You then, might want to ask for different GPU's  I would ask for the Quadro fx 5800 4GB, Idk how this card does against 3 580's in the video editing world.  Anyone wanna help with this?  Since, you can't pick the work station gpu for the Syndicate build I have 3x GTX 580's, but you can request Digital Storm to put in the other card if it will be a better fit for you.  One other thing, as far as storage you want a good SSD, but intel doesn't seem to offer a high capacity storage atm, but they are coming out with higher and faster drives in 2011, and I'm not sure how high quality the sandforce SSD's are maybe Dragoon could help with that.  Also, I know it's not as productive to put SSD's in a raid format, but with the space you will be using it would seem that throwing them in a RAID 0 config might be the only option right now to make up for lack of bigger SSD's.  All in all it looks like your budget is really high, let me know what you think. Load this ticket and check it out: 471880

ok 24GB of ram you need and should get.

you can put hexa core, 6 cores, 2 of them is 12 real cores, with HT your pc will think it has 24 cores.

not sure if sli is supported with the software you use, and I'm not sure quadro does sli.

as for ssds, you got some bad info, all ssds are not the same and intel is king, performance is great. but if you still want HDD NP, let me know.

I'm pretty sure quadro is CUDA enabled: http://www.digitalstormonline.com/dso-ws/#3

so yeah I like HDD
and i would realllyy love the 6-core i7 duality. but it seems that i can't dual-i7 for options in the configuration page..?

which would be better actually? a dual-hexa core xeon? or dual-hexa core i7?
can hyperthreading be enabled for both of these?



Edited by StructuredAmazingArt - 22 Dec 2010 at 11:46pm

yea it is cuda enabled i was saying you can't use sli with cuda.
don't think you can dual i7's hooked up together.

which would be better actually? a dual-hexa core xeon? or dual-hexa core i7?
can hyperthreading be enabled for both of these?

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&& really? SSD's became better? so theyre better than HDD's in everyway possible [cept for size that is... but in time, the capacity will become more spacious.
how does an SSD [like the 600GB one you just mentioned to me that is coming out in a few months] compare to a 10K RPM HDD??

xeon cpu is better i think.
yes both have HT

oh, so if xeon is better, then i should just go for that, especially since it has HT enabled as well. sweet. lol I thought only the i7's had them nifty HT lol
so maybe i should wait a while til i get a fully loaded SSD system with HDDs as just backup material.
are you sure about the SSDs? im a bit skeptical with SSDs since ive heard mixed reviews on them

its pretty much the same chip really with a higher qpi, that can do multi-cpu application.

I'm sure about ssds. but all ssds are not the same, I'm talking about the intel ssd.

for things like ssd or gpu, you don't have to wait, you can upgrade those real easy.

did you see the dual cpu build I posted for you?

Edited by DST4ME - 23 Dec 2010 at 12:14am

Originally posted by maxyme the xeon is a server and workstation chip while the i7 is a desktop chip.

lol so i probably should go with the xeon since it is obviously much more powerful [considering it being a server/workstation chip]

yea decided to do a lil research and post that up just to backup what i said earlier.

but if you think about it they are. since you can put two side by side. but they are server chips so there must be something about them thats better. i know they have more cores

edit: lol i love how i post everything in that article without reading it.

Edited by maxyme - 23 Dec 2010 at 12:09am