Building Workstation, for editing, compositing, some 3d stuff, and audio

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mcnys

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Hello,

in the beginning of next year i will be building workstation for editing video, compositing, some 3d work and for audio too...well i'm a sound guy(sound designer, editor, composer), so i know what is good enough for me.

The thing is, where i live, there is no big film industry or something like that(commercials are also mainly shot in other countries), so i will be building this computer just for my entertainment, will be shooting some video, editing it, also will be doing some vfx work just for a pleasure(basically it will be like expensive toy for me).

well right now i have some intel quad core cpu(older model, not a i3.5.7) with 8gigs of ram and gtx580 video card, 7200rpm hard drive, and even when editing my dslr footage its quite pain in the ass :) even when encoded to edit friendly codec its still a pain even to scroll that footage... still this computer is a really not bad audio workstation.

so before i write the specs i chose for new workstation, i wounder if there will be serious advantage on buying hexacore intel i7 extreme, or just good quad core i7(hexacore would be 2x the price vs decent quad core i7 in my country)?

right now i'm thinking about this configuration:
intel i7 extreme hexacore
16-24gigs of ram
128gb ssd
2tb hdd
and maybe the same gtx580 geforce
a good cooling system and good psu for stability is in plans too

will this rig be a bit overkill for me or not? in the middle of next year i will be buying bmcc to be able shoot raw footage, so i want this workstation to be able work with raw files decently.

p.s: sorry for my not so good english, i'm not from english speaking country ;)
 
I wouldn't drop the cash required for the hexacore...an Ivy Bridge Quad Core should work just fine. Your video card is still excellent, so keep it. Go for 32GB of RAM because it's dirt cheap right now (like $100). Double the size of your SSD (seriously, 128GB will fill up fast even with just OS/apps), and split up the 2TB with 2 1TB Black Drives or Velociraptor drives. I just bought two 500GB Velociraptor drives that I'm going to stripe in RAID 0 off the motherboard because I need more speed for my work volume. I can tell it's a huge bottleneck. So I'll report back with how much that helps things (BTW, I'm running a Core 2 Quad OC'd to 3.2GHz).
 
Gary Huff said:
I wouldn't drop the cash required for the hexacore...an Ivy Bridge Quad Core should work just fine. Your video card is still excellent, so keep it. Go for 32GB of RAM because it's dirt cheap right now (like $100). Double the size of your SSD (seriously, 128GB will fill up fast even with just OS/apps), and split up the 2TB with 2 1TB Black Drives or Velociraptor drives. I just bought two 500GB Velociraptor drives that I'm going to stripe in RAID 0 off the motherboard because I need more speed for my work volume. I can tell it's a huge bottleneck. So I'll report back with how much that helps things (BTW, I'm running a Core 2 Quad OC'd to 3.2GHz).
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Gary, thanks for sharing. So your bottleneck is not CPU? I am trying to find a cpu that will handle my basic needs, I have another thread going on it. Can you tell me if one of these comes closest to describing your CPU? From there I can look at processing power and try to find something close. My big fear is buying too little cpu power. Thanks. Sorry to interrupt the OP's thread.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Quad+@+2.83GHz&id=1683
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Quad+@+3.20GHz&id=1684
 
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