My partner and I do a large variety of things with our company that we founded and now solely operate. Long story shortened to the quick and dirty, we film/stream high quality game content for sub vendors. Usually indie games, but a couple strong titles as well! We both have our personal towers, which we'd prefer to keep at home, as opposed to our office space. We also both have gaming laptops which neither are even close to being proficient for our workload.
We stream 1080p gameplay, and film steady works 1080p/1440p varying on the contract. We'll also be looking to play 60fps consistently on our single 4K monitor, for leisure/testing. The bulk of our tasks are as follows
Video Editing
Sony Vegas
Corel
Adobe Premiere
Steinberg Nuendo 7(used primarily)
Utilization of 18-27 Virtual Machines at any given time
So far we've come up with this build. We've set ourselves a budget of $7,500 USD. That's our hardware investment. We're not looking to use the WHOLE budget if we don't have to. Mainly we need good performance under the VM workload and quick productivity for video creation, as well as flawless frames at 4K. The custom loop is mainly for show, and to keep temps in check when we rip an overclock into it. We'll most likely build a new tower in roughly three years(little sooner or later than that depending on hardware release cycles)
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($564.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 WS-E EATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($429.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Samsung 850 Pro Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($438.90 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Green 6TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($221.16 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI) ($622.39 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI) ($622.39 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI) ($622.39 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 900D ATX Full Tower Case ($337.75 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($174.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM (64-bit) ($139.00 @ Adorama)
Other: Crucial 64GB (4 x 16GB) 2133mhz ECC
Other: alphacool cool answer 480mm custom loop ($369.99)
Total: $4543.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-11 00:53 EDT-0400
Any suggestions? If a hexa or octa core Xeon might be of benefit, or anything else.
We stream 1080p gameplay, and film steady works 1080p/1440p varying on the contract. We'll also be looking to play 60fps consistently on our single 4K monitor, for leisure/testing. The bulk of our tasks are as follows
Video Editing
Sony Vegas
Corel
Adobe Premiere
Steinberg Nuendo 7(used primarily)
Utilization of 18-27 Virtual Machines at any given time
So far we've come up with this build. We've set ourselves a budget of $7,500 USD. That's our hardware investment. We're not looking to use the WHOLE budget if we don't have to. Mainly we need good performance under the VM workload and quick productivity for video creation, as well as flawless frames at 4K. The custom loop is mainly for show, and to keep temps in check when we rip an overclock into it. We'll most likely build a new tower in roughly three years(little sooner or later than that depending on hardware release cycles)
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($564.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 WS-E EATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($429.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Samsung 850 Pro Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($438.90 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Green 6TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($221.16 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI) ($622.39 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI) ($622.39 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (3-Way SLI) ($622.39 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 900D ATX Full Tower Case ($337.75 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($174.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM (64-bit) ($139.00 @ Adorama)
Other: Crucial 64GB (4 x 16GB) 2133mhz ECC
Other: alphacool cool answer 480mm custom loop ($369.99)
Total: $4543.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-11 00:53 EDT-0400
Any suggestions? If a hexa or octa core Xeon might be of benefit, or anything else.
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