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Subject: Re: [AE] Feedback on Workstation components
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Do you need the best of the best? The newest, cutting edge machine?

I decided a while ago to accept a slightly lower/slower spec in exchange 
for ridiculous savings and went the refurb route.

If I wanted to buy a new workstation now, I'd go for a HP Z820 or Z840 
with dual Xeons, at least 128 GB of RAM and a good Quadro card. As a 
refurb it runs around €1400.

Compared to a brand new top-end beast at around €10k it makes more sense 
for me.

Cheers

Elliot

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On 2/7/19 3:25 PM, Byron Nash wrote:
> I'm buying another workstation for a new hire. The prices on some of 
> the components have either exploded or new options have come out. Our 
> current machines have i7 3 ghZ CPU's, 1080 ti GPU's, and 128GB RAM. 
> The 1080's are no longer available at reasonable prices. I have one 
> vendor quoting a XEON CPU and a Quadro. But I'm also looking at RTX 20 
> series GPU's and i9's. I don't have unlimited budget. These boxes will 
> get used for mostly AE and some C4D/Redshift.
>
> My question is, given similar price points, would you take a XEON over 
> a i7/9 and a Quadro over a RTX?


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    <p><font face="Calibri">Do you need the best of the best? The
        newest, cutting edge machine?</font></p>
    <p><font face="Calibri">I decided a while ago to accept a slightly
        lower/slower spec in exchange for ridiculous savings and went
        the refurb route.</font></p>
    <p><font face="Calibri">If I wanted to buy a new workstation now,
        I'd go for a HP Z820 or Z840 with dual Xeons, at least 128 GB of
        RAM and a good Quadro card. As a refurb it runs around €1400.</font></p>
    <p><font face="Calibri">Compared to a brand new top-end beast at
        around €10k it makes more sense for me.</font></p>
    <p><font face="Calibri">Cheers</font></p>
    <p><font face="Calibri">Elliot</font><br>
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      <p class="p1"><b>digitalMEDIA Technik GmbH</b></p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/7/19 3:25 PM, Byron Nash wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">I'm buying another workstation for a new hire. The
        prices on some of the components have either exploded or new
        options have come out. Our current machines have i7 3 ghZ CPU's,
        1080 ti GPU's, and 128GB RAM. The 1080's are no longer available
        at reasonable prices. I have one vendor quoting a XEON CPU and a
        Quadro. But I'm also looking at RTX 20 series GPU's and i9's. I
        don't have unlimited budget. These boxes will get used for
        mostly AE and some C4D/Redshift. 
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        <div>My question is, given similar price points, would you take
          a XEON over a i7/9 and a Quadro over a RTX? </div>
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