Supermicro MOBO based custom PC?

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Timo Flink

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Hi. After many weeks/months of trying to come up with an adequate system for 4K CinemaDNG RAW out of Odyssey 7Q 25p grading with Resolve 12 Studio, I am asking the expert opinion on the following.

If I build a custom PC with these partial specs, would this be good enough for realtime grading for 4K RAW material? Maybe even realtime NR?

Supermicro X10DRG-Q motherboard with thunderbolt 2 card for external media storage &
3x Quadro M5000 cards for GUI & computing &
2x2TB SSD raid0 cache for working &
480GB or 960GB PCIe SSD for Windows 10 (possible downgraded to 7)

Yes. It will cost me dearly, but it is within the realm of possibilities, though just barely.

The alternative option would be to have 3x Titan X plus Decklink with HD-SDI monitor.

Any comments on this configuration?
 
Why are you particularly keen to use Thunderbolt storage? It's far from the most cost-effective approach, and that motherboard has ten SATA ports.

You may also find that it isn't necessary to throw quite​ so many GPUs at the problem, depending on what sort of work you're anticipating doing.
 
Phil Rhodes said:
Why are you particularly keen to use Thunderbolt storage? It's far from the most cost-effective approach, and that motherboard has ten SATA ports.

You may also find that it isn't necessary to throw quite​ so many GPUs at the problem, depending on what sort of work you're anticipating doing.
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The reason is simple. I already have thunderbolt devices with my current system, and I need the data stored. I will most likely use those SATA ports for an internal storage as well, but I have thunderbolt drives for a long-term storage.

As for how many and which Quadros I need, I have no idea, really. That's why I'm asking. I need to color grade and apply temporal noise reduction on 4k RAW CinemaDNG files in realtime. So far I have been working with HD ProRes material only. But I was told (here, actually) to get as many Quadros as possible.
 
That's a pretty good reason.

You may not need any Quadros. I found a GTX 980 was more than most jobs will need on HD work, and that 4K-ish stuff is about three times as demanding. They're a lot, lot, lot cheaper than Quadros, and you can always buy one, then add more if you find you're running out of puff. The ability to incrementally upgrade is nice.

Get one cheap, basic card to do the desktop display, and a 980. Add more as time goes by.

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