- Apr 23, 2018
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hi there
I have a little bit of dilemma. I work in video and motion graphics and recently changed jobs. I work about 90% in Premiere Pro and After effects. At my new workplace someone put together apparently an 'ideal' rig for this sort of work and when I heard it cost around £4,800 to put together I thought this machine will be able to move people across space and time, not to mention easily edit videos.
Less than a week into my new work I find the machine... is unbelievably average, especially for a price tag which tipples what I have at home.
I did some digging and turns out the IT guy just pulled together the list of 'what sounded right' off the Dell website (which makes me think it's a complete rip-off).
So here's a few questions - does video work benefit *at all* from the Quadro line of cards? This setup has Quadro p4000 in it. I remember reading somewhere these cards are useful for CAD and 3ds users (which I have absolutely nothing to do with). Would a cheaper equivalent from GTX line not be even better for this purpose (the CUDA support etc)? I use GTX 670 at home and still get away with 95% of stuff I throw at my PC in After Effects.
Intel Xeon silver 4110. Great, but wouldn't a much cheaper i-7 with 8 cores do a better job? I just done quick read and apparently it's the sort of CPU you put in a server workstation (whaat?).
I feel like the company I work for has been ripped off quite severely but since the machine is still on warranty, I wanted to see what you guys think would be a good replacement for this. I'm pretty sure you can put together something better at a lot cheaper.
my final question if you had, say £2-2,5k what would your ideal video rig look like?
many thanks in advance
I have a little bit of dilemma. I work in video and motion graphics and recently changed jobs. I work about 90% in Premiere Pro and After effects. At my new workplace someone put together apparently an 'ideal' rig for this sort of work and when I heard it cost around £4,800 to put together I thought this machine will be able to move people across space and time, not to mention easily edit videos.
Less than a week into my new work I find the machine... is unbelievably average, especially for a price tag which tipples what I have at home.
I did some digging and turns out the IT guy just pulled together the list of 'what sounded right' off the Dell website (which makes me think it's a complete rip-off).
So here's a few questions - does video work benefit *at all* from the Quadro line of cards? This setup has Quadro p4000 in it. I remember reading somewhere these cards are useful for CAD and 3ds users (which I have absolutely nothing to do with). Would a cheaper equivalent from GTX line not be even better for this purpose (the CUDA support etc)? I use GTX 670 at home and still get away with 95% of stuff I throw at my PC in After Effects.
Intel Xeon silver 4110. Great, but wouldn't a much cheaper i-7 with 8 cores do a better job? I just done quick read and apparently it's the sort of CPU you put in a server workstation (whaat?).
I feel like the company I work for has been ripped off quite severely but since the machine is still on warranty, I wanted to see what you guys think would be a good replacement for this. I'm pretty sure you can put together something better at a lot cheaper.
my final question if you had, say £2-2,5k what would your ideal video rig look like?
many thanks in advance
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