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Best Custom PC Builders?

Tom Lowe

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I have been using Origin PC for years now, but Origin is balking at my latest dual-Xeon build, saying it requires too many custom parts and custom building, including the case. Can anyone recommend a good, established builder who can put together the below machine for us? I'm looking for a company with a good reputation who will stand behind their work.

Supermicro X10DRG-Q

Dual Intel XEON E5-2697 v3 Tetradeca-Core

3X 12GB NVIDIA GTX Titan X

256GB ECC Registered 2133MHz (16X16GB)

1X PCI SSD

8x 3.4TB SSD RAID 5

Thanks!
 
Are you in Los Angeles? I just had a PC built at Stan's Tech Garage at Fairfax and Santa Monica. They were great to work with. I'm cutting 6K 1/2 rez no problem, it's like I'm working with HDV footage again. And starting at 8:1 compression I can play full rez.
 
Eric Bowen is on this forum and maybe the owner or works for ADK computers he understands the RED, ADOBE and DAVINCI workflow espically on the pc side give him a call
 
Maingear

Maingear

Take a look at Maingear.

They just built us a pretty beastly X-99 machine (Nothing like your building though) and it has been running excellent! We did have a issue with the power supply and they handled the situation really well. Sent out a new one to get us up and running again just with a phone call and dealt with the warrenty themselves. Were are also all the way in Hawaii but did not phase them at all!

Looking at their Quantum shift customization section they might be able to do what your looking for. I would definitely give them a call and check out their shift model- http://www.maingear.com/boutique/pc/configurePrd.asp?idproduct=2325
 
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I've used Penguin Computing, they show up at most of the major vendor things, and are well known in the high performance computing crowd. [i've used i think 4 of their machines similar to your build, none ever had a problem - they do tend to using the pro versions of the cards though] They are not purely linux, they will put windows on it. Also double check on how penguin does the fans, they really like to put some serious fans on the fully blown boxes, they have different fan options for more workstations use. At the nvidia GPU conference, there are a couple of companies that specialize in putting in multiple Titan-x cards into the box - I have a list of those that I have walked through there gear but haven't bought from yet (there are some tricks to getting good performance on over 2 titan-x cards, so you just can't have a good clone maker to do it).
 
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Does anyone have experience with Thinkmate?
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I've been happy. I had some troubles appear in 3-4 disks about 18 months in. I sent them a list of serial numbers, and they offered to replace all my disks, saying that my numbers correlated with a bad batch. I got a free, complete replacement for all my disks--48 in total--as a result. That's proactive support!
 
I work at ADK but I dont own it. We custom build what ever the client requires or demands. We have our recommended hardware selection but are willing to go outside that if the client requires to some extent. Since we support the solutions including the hardware and software for the life of the system we do have to limit the hardware choices some but that is mainly around ram and system boards. I will warn we quit suing Super Micro in our standard Dual Xeon configs years ago because their warranty clock started when the boards were sold to distribution instead of the reseller or end user. So even a system configurator such as ADK could buy a board from Disti that was already out of warranty. Their support was not as good as Asus at that time either. We currently use the Asus Z10PE D8 WS board which has the best slot config but doesn't have Thunderbolt options. I would also consider an X99 WS configuration with a single chip with the Thunderbolt card as well. You could get 2 of those systems for close to the price or at the price of this Dual Xeon config. The bios will need to have settings to get 3x GPU's to work with the Thunderbolt card. You may end up requiring an PCI-E expansion chassis for this configuration depending on how Super Micro has their board's routing designed for the Thunderbolt card. Regardless of who builds it I would suggest contacting them and asking what slot that card has to reside in to work.
 
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