Rig for 2.5k Raw?

[Kruluk]

Looking for help building a rig for editing. A system that can easily handle Blackmagic Cinema Camera 2.5k raw footage and also work well in Davinci Resolve and most if not all of Adobe's suite. The size of raw footage is approximately 70mb per second. I'm not the best at math but approximately 50 minutes of footage is 256gbs.


Approximate Purchase Date: July 1st or 2nd week 2015.


Budget Range: 2000 give or take a few hundred, I could push the budget to 3000 but would rather not unless it just made a WHOLE LOT of sense and is really necessary for a good experience


System Usage from Most to Least Important: Coloring/editing 2.5k raw from the BMCC cam in resolve/adobe, also a way to handle the footage and file sizes storage wise, web surfing, occasional foray into gaming no need to optimize for this, although would be nice to be able to sometimes switch from 3 to 1 or 2 monitors.


Are you buying a monitor? No. BUT this is the monitor I have x3.
http://www.amazon.com/HP-ZR22w-21-5...pebp=1435532053273&perid=18EC3MB471NVK1TR94A7


Parts to Upgrade; Willing to upgrade EVERYTHING. But, here's some information about my current setup just in case some of it may be able to be used in the new build.


Intel i5-3570k 3.40 GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504


RAM 16 GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104361


Tower
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139018


Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837


Power supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005


Fan
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009ZN03AA?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00


128gb Kingston SSD for OS
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007R67FTY?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s01


DVD Drive; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106289


GPHX card; 1 x SAPPHIRE 100352-3L Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card


Also a few assorted sizes of different 1 TB to 3 TB drives


Do you need to buy OS: Yes


Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon would be my top one since I have prime, but, I guess anywhere reputable is fine! Would rather buy it all online than go to a physical store.


Overclocking; Maybe?


SLI or Crossfire; I'm assuming yes? But not sure.


Additional Comments: Would like the ability to quiet the fan or PC when surfing the web, like for example on my current setup when I use 1-2 of my 3 monitors to just surf the web I can go into Corsair Link and tell the computer to run in quiet mode.


And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: I need a computer that can handle the footage easily and relatively quickly. I don't want to be frustrated when coloring or editing the footage. Also would like the computer to last me 4-5 years (stretching it I know lol).


Additional questions; What about raid controllers? Cuda processing / GPU for the editing side of things? USB 3.0 vs Thunderbolt?

 

[Greg_E]

The i5 processor is not enough. I would go for nVidia graphics, but that may be a personal choice. I would look at Resolve's recommended needs before buying anything, and I would think about my intended workflow. Are you intending to work with full resolution or are you going to use proxy files in an offline/online workflow? Willing to convert to edit friendly files or work with the raw directly?

Also remember that Resolve 12 brings editing with it, might save a lot of headache just using Resolve and Fusion for everything.

 

[legrevedotcom]

Radeon makes terrible cards :/
quadro are proven workstation cards but Nvidia cards have more cuda cores.

 

[Greg_E]

Radeon makes terrible cards :/
quadro are proven workstation cards but Nvidia cards have more cuda cores.

I would argue that they make good cards, but the drivers are a real problem for me which is why I won't buy them for my work or personal use. Way too many issues with embedded AMD graphics with Windows. And as far as I'm concerned, neither works very well under Linux, but if you jump through enough hoops they either card type) may function well enough for Lightworks and Resolve on Linux. Linus Torvalds has rude things to say to nVidia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw I don't believe he was joking in that clip.