Communigate Pro AE-List@media-motion.tv Message 64819

I like Quadros if you do any work that 10-bit support is helpful (for me it is) and worth the extra coin. Premiere, Photoshop both have it via OpenGL. Of course, your display must support it as well.

Xeon not so much unless it’s cheaper/faster (which it almost never is unless is some kind of close-out special) or you MUST have ECC memory support which is rarely needed for workstation work.

From: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2019 10:34 AM
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] Feedback on Workstation components

Just trying to get the best we can afford! I need to spend closer to $5k for this to work.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:31 AM Elliot Steele <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

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?