What is your opinion about this machine?

Lucassob · Aug 17, 2013

I intend to assemble a new workstation for HD video editing. I'll be using Adobe Premiere, probably CS6 for now and eventually some photoshop and AE, but only as a complement. I dont intend to OC. I'll be editing from short movies to 90 minute documentaries. This is the configuration. What do you think? Will it hold nicelly? My intention is to not loose a lot of time in rendering and exporting anymore.

motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
processor: Intel Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell 3.3GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1150 80W Quad-Core Server Processor BX80646E31230V3

GPU: NVIDIA® Quadro® K2000D VCQK2000D-PB 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card
Memory: Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case amor.

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Coole

Thanks!

Pinhedd · Aug 17, 2013

Xeon CPUs are not supported by Asus' consumer motherboards. If you want to go the Xeon route you will need to buy a motherboard with firmware that supports Xeon CPUs such as the Asus Z87-WS which has the Z87 chipset, or P9D-WS which uses the C226 chipset.

Someone Somewhere · Aug 17, 2013

Gigabyte's seem to: http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=4491 IIRC ASRock's do too.

I'd suggest getting a cheap H87 board, and dropping the CPU cooler. There's no need for a Z87 board.

Your other option is to spend a bit extra and go the LGA2011 route, though that will definitely cost you.

Cazalan · Aug 17, 2013

Adobe CS6 supports OpenCL graphics acceleration, which AMD Radeon cards are currently the best at.

HD 7970 or HD 7990

Western Digital Caviar Blue - Is their lower end drives

You want a Black or Red which give longer warranties.

Lucassob · Aug 17, 2013

Pinhedd :

I picked the asus sabertooth as I saw it also had the Z87 chipset, and it was LGA 1150... so they are differente? the WS and the sabertooh? I wanted to go with Asus as a choice beacause all the machines I assembled in the past had Asus and they never gave me trouble, and I dont really know Asrock, but a lot of people suggested Asrock to me. If I wanted to go with Asus, there are only those 2? Another thing, I was looking in newwegg for the WS and there, they dont say the ws supports it. Why there are so few boards, or I found few boards, that support Xeon?

Thanks for the reply

Lucassob · Aug 17, 2013

Someone Somewhere :

Thank you for your reply. I dont know much about computer hardware. Wouldn't going for a cheaper board might trouble the efficience of the system?It might be a dumb question, but what will I gain in perfomance if I go with higher end mobos?

Pinhedd · Aug 17, 2013

Lucassob :

The company that manufactures the board needs to add support for the Xeon CPUs into the board's firmware. Without that, using an unsupported CPU will not work. Asus lists CPU support for each motherboard on their website. Find the model that you want to inquire about, then click on the "support" tab, and then on the "CPU support" tab. Xeon CPUs are usually listed at the bottom.

EDIT: I agree with your wanting to use an Asus board, they make amazing products.

Someone Somewhere · Aug 17, 2013

No gain in performance with higher-end boards. Only difference is better OCing, more ports, and in some cases the ability to CF/SLI.

Nothing you're doing needs anything more than an H87 board.

Lucassob · Aug 18, 2013

Someone Somewhere :

Isnt the cooler needed? I should drop it?

Lucassob · Aug 18, 2013

So far, this is the machine I came with. What do you guys think now?

motherboard: ASRock H87M Pro4 LGA 1150 Intel H87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
processor: Intel Xeon E3-1230V3

GPU: NVIDIA® Quadro® K2000D VCQK2000D-PB 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card

Memory: Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($57.99 @ Microcenter)

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Coole

Someone Somewhere · Aug 19, 2013

Kingston RAM is often 1.65V. Stick with 1.5V or lower, or you void the warranty and risk damaging your IMC.

Looks good otherwise.

Lucassob · Aug 19, 2013

Someone Somewhere :

The one Im getting is 1.5V...so you think Im good to go?

Thanks!

Someone Somewhere · Aug 19, 2013

Yup. Great build then.

You can drop the cooler, but it will be a little warmer and louder. Your choice.

Lucassob · Aug 19, 2013

Thank you all!

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