Moving to RED. Best setup for Davinci Resolve

[Mike Nagel]

If u want 6K or 8K exr/DPX in real time, u need SSD RAID... spinning disks don't do that, doesn't matter if u use 24 of them...

 

[Misha Engel]

- a refurb'd z840 with dual 12-14c's / 128g / dual 1080Ti's and a decklink4k pro

Interresting:

A refurb'd Z840 with lets say 2 x Xeon E5-2690 v4, 128 GB DDR4 2400 and 2 x GTX1080ti, where my purposed litlle new setup is around 30..50% faster in Resolve related workloads.

Is it just the Z840 badge or something else?

 

[Dermot Shane]

rock solid reiability really, great cooling, etc

and i'd not go for 2690v4's anyway, choseing maybe 2687w_v3's that's more than enough horsepower for any reasonable client attened sessions.. far less cash outlay - once it's fast enough to run footage at 23.98, no more power is going to do anything usefull, rather spend the resources on a callibration system and decent monitor, or if that's covered off, a small surface

and really i'd sooner go for a refurb'd z620 with dual 10c's if the resources could not strech far enough to cover both a fast machine and accurate monitoring, i put a proirity on the monitor + callibration over any machine once you are past the 23.98 threashold, source cacheing is a usefull option, but inaccurate monitoring has no options for a workaround

 

[Misha Engel]

rock solid reiability really, great cooling, etc

and i'd not go for 2690v4's anyway, choseing maybe 2687w_v3's that's more than enough horsepower for any reasonable client attened sessions.. far less cash outlay - once it's fast enough to run footage at 23.98, no more power is going to do anything usefull, rather spend the resources on a callibration system and decent monitor, or if that's covered off, a small surface

and really i'd sooner go for a refurb'd z620 with dual 10c's if the resources could not strech far enough to cover both a fast machine and accurate monitoring, i put a proirity on the monitor + callibration over any machine once you are past the 23.98 threashold, source cacheing is a usefull option, but inaccurate monitoring has no options for a workaround

I don't see how those HP workstations are more rock solid, have better cooling, etc.. than a custombuild Windows 10 workstation with high-quality components and assambled with some commen sence.
I'm not at all impressed by the components used in OEM workstations (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc...).

A dual socket E5-2687w_v3 is good enough for 6k but with 8k RED 7:1 23.976 it is just to slow to decompress in real-time.
Our overclocked TR1950x 4 GHz all-core which has approx. the same speed as a dual E5-2687w_v3 is not stutter free (highest quality settings) with 8k RED 7:1 23.976 let alone 5:1, 9:1 is stutter free.

A good callibrated color correction monitor is as you state very important and since our commecial customers want it to be shown on a UHD HDR display(TV) we also color correct on a callibrated UHD HDR display (LG OLED TV).