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.Â
My question is, given similar price points, would
you take a XEON over a i7/9 and a Quadro over a RTX?Â
