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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Sandy Bridge E processors out today...

Marcos Montenegro said:
Getting my new system next week (i7-3930K 3.20 GHz, Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard and the EVGA NVIDIA GTX 590).
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Please let us know how well it works with R3Ds. I'm looking a building a similar system soon.
 
Upgraded one of my systems to it today. Currently reinstalling windows...
 
Sven Seynaeve said:
would be great to hear what kind of performance you get, planning on building one next week as well.
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Same ... lmao ... hoping you guys work the bugs out for me ;) I am probably going to get the quadro 4000 and 32 gig ram too btw. So would be nice to see your entire build.
 
Will be building mine by the end of this week.

i7-3960X CPU
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard
8 x 4GB G.Skill RipJaw X DIMMs (2133MHz, CL9). Wanted the 2400's, but wasn't willing to pay the $450 premium
480GB Mushkin Chronos DX series 6Gbps SSD
2 x EVGA GTX580 OC's

Probably a RAID card and some internal RAID storage... still deciding.

Still haven't decided on a case and PSU and a couple other things...

System will be used primarily as a 3D modeling / animation / graphics workstation. Will run Adobe Master Collection, DaVinci Resolve (beta), Nuke, Modo, Maya, Lightwave... and a game or two. Hehe. I might put a RED Rocket card in it, might not...

Gonna have to do some gaming and other such things that I have not done in a while after getting this put together. Had to buy the Battlefield 3 bundle version motherboard since it's all I can find in stock anywhere. So I guess that gives me a great place to start. lol. :)

@PatrickFaith - Why the Quadro 4000? It's like, uh, slow...
 
@Jeff Kilgroe: Are you planning on water loops or air for your OC? At 2133 won't you need water with an external rad?

i7-3930k (3.2 native, OC to 4.2-4.5ish for a 24/7 stable OC) on Corsair H100 sealed loop cooler.
Asus P9X79 Deluxe mobo
32 GB RAM (4x8GB) Corsair Vengence 1888 / CL10 [ 4 slots left available for another 32 later]
2x OCZ Vertex 3 SATA3 6Gbps 240GB SSDs in RAID 0 on board for OS
1x MSI N580 Lightning Extreme 3GB (factory OC)
Corsair AX1200 gold PS
Cooler Master HAF X case w/ (3) 220mm, (1)140mm case fans + (2) 120mm fans for H100 Rad
NZXT Sentry LE fan controller
Pioneer Blu-Ray burner
REDMag 1.8 Reader integration mod on internal eSATA
Avid Control, Color, and Transport panels
Win7 x64 Pro, CS5.5, Avid MC6, Resolve, RC-X Pro

Debating on monitors right now. Leaning toward (2) Dell U2711 GUI + Pano 50 inch for grading -- thoughts/experiences are appreciated

Near future:
Waiting for the pricing to come down a bit before getting (4) WD RE4 2TB drives RAID 0
LTO 5 drive for backups
Areca 1882 HW SAS/RAID controller when business load requires it.
 
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Jeff Kilgroe said:
Will be building mine by the end of this week.

i7-3960X CPU
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard
8 x 4GB G.Skill RipJaw X DIMMs (2133MHz, CL9). Wanted the 2400's, but wasn't willing to pay the $450 premium
480GB Mushkin Chronos DX series 6Gbps SSD
2 x EVGA GTX580 OC's

Probably a RAID card and some internal RAID storage... still deciding.

Still haven't decided on a case and PSU and a couple other things...

System will be used primarily as a 3D modeling / animation / graphics workstation. Will run Adobe Master Collection, DaVinci Resolve (beta), Nuke, Modo, Maya, Lightwave... and a game or two. Hehe. I might put a RED Rocket card in it, might not...

Gonna have to do some gaming and other such things that I have not done in a while after getting this put together. Had to buy the Battlefield 3 bundle version motherboard since it's all I can find in stock anywhere. So I guess that gives me a great place to start. lol. :)

@PatrickFaith - Why the Quadro 4000? It's like, uh, slow...
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depends on the software, but the Quadro card drivers provide native support for some CAD and modeling software packages that the GTX consumer cards don't. Quadro cards also support the Tesla rendering GPU/s. I know from personal experience that Autocad is not well supported on the consumer cards, a low end Quadro 600 will perform better than the GTX 580 on Autocad.
 
David Rasberry said:
depends on the software, but the Quadro card drivers provide native support for some CAD and modeling software packages that the GTX consumer cards don't. Quadro cards also support the Tesla rendering GPU/s. I know from personal experience that Autocad is not well supported on the consumer cards, a low end Quadro 600 will perform better than the GTX 580 on Autocad.
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Very true. However, considering we are talking about software like Adobe CS5.5 or Resolve, Quadro 4000 is quite slow. Something like a $180 GTX 560 is much faster.
 
Subhadip Sen said:
Very true. However, considering we are talking about software like Adobe CS5.5 or Resolve, Quadro 4000 is quite slow. Something like a $180 GTX 560 is much faster.
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Much thanks ... putting in my order now. I am mainly adobe cs 5.5,resolve and blender guy ... so two 560's looks like a real sweat spot. I did look at the 580's, is for sure better, but is a price/need thing. I sometimes do tesla processing, but thinking of just renting some grid time for that via amazon.
 
The Quadros do have some advantages in a few apps -- AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Maya... I use AutoCAD and SolidWorks myself on occasion, mostly when clients give me files to work from for doing visualizations and whatnot. I don't know if I'll be doing much of that on this system... I own AutoCAD, but not SolidWorks -- have a colleague I visit when needed. :) Anyway, that said, I bet the AutoCAD performance on this system is still better than the system it's replacing, which has a GTX480 card in it, and AutoCAD runs pretty snappy. There's not much difference between the Quadro and GeForce drivers these days and the GeForce drivers have application-specific tweaking you can do (limited, but it's there). Biggest Quadro feature for CAD is the additional acceleration for line drawing. In Maya and XSI, the Quadros perform better with the additional stencil buffers and extra OpenGL precision -- you don't see as many holes and pixel anomalies along edges while working. Then again, MAX, Modo, Lightwave, C4D, etc.. don't suffer from these anomalies when using non-Quadro cards or ATI cards, so it kinda makes one wonder WTF is up with the OpenGL engines in Maya and XSI.

When it comes to the current Quadro line, the 4000 is just OK. The 5000 is the best price/performance card and with some tweaks you can overclock it to almost match the 6000. So it's my choice.

Don't need liquid cooling on the system configuration I'm assembling. But I am considering it. Motherboard, RAM and SSD is supposed to be here tomorrow. I already have the 580's and the CPU... I need to make a quick decision on the water cooling because if I go that route, I will swap out the video cards for the EVGA water-cooled models. But as of right now I think I'm going for air cooling. I don't intend to do massive overclocking with this system, I'm going for stability above anything else. Hope it works out.

PatrickFaith said:
Much thanks ... putting in my order now. I am mainly adobe cs 5.5,resolve and blender guy ... so two 560's looks like a real sweat spot. I did look at the 580's, is for sure better, but is a price/need thing. I sometimes do tesla processing, but thinking of just renting some grid time for that via amazon.
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Dual 560's is a reasonable choice. Saves a bit over the dual 580s for sure. Also, you can go with the 590, which is like having dual 560's on one card, but with less total RAM (IIRC) and bandwidth is obviously restricted to the single slot... Which could be an issue depending on what you're doing. Although, CS5.5 and Resolve are not going to tax the bandwidth of such a configuration.

As for the Tesla processing. You really have to go big to see the real benefits. Too much of a luxury item at the moment, more so than SSD's by far. For most practical purposes and broad use with multiple applications, you can build other systems to share rendering loads and get more performance gain for less money.
 
Jon Thomasberg said:
@Jeff Kilgroe: Are you planning on water loops or air for your OC? At 2133 won't you need water with an external rad?

i7-3930k (3.2 native, OC to 4.2-4.5ish for a 24/7 stable OC) on Corsair H100 sealed loop cooler.
Asus P9X79 Deluxe mobo
32 GB RAM (4x8GB) Corsair Vengence 1888 / CL10 [ 4 slots left available for another 32 later]
2x OCZ Vertex 3 SATA3 6Gbps 240GB SSDs in RAID 0 on board for OS
1x MSI N580 Lightning Extreme 3GB (factory OC)
Corsair AX1200 gold PS
Cooler Master HAF X case w/ (3) 220mm, (1)140mm case fans + (2) 120mm fans for H100 Rad
NZXT Sentry LE fan controller
Pioneer Blu-Ray burner
REDMag 1.8 Reader integration mod on internal eSATA
Avid Control, Color, and Transport panels
Win7 x64 Pro, CS5.5, Avid MC6, Resolve, RC-X Pro

Debating on monitors right now. Leaning toward (2) Dell U2711 GUI + Pano 50 inch for grading -- thoughts/experiences are appreciated

Near future:
Waiting for the pricing to come down a bit before getting (4) WD RE4 2TB drives RAID 0
LTO 5 drive for backups
Areca 1882 HW SAS/RAID controller when business load requires it.
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Nice rig, Jon, are you getting most of these components @ NewEgg?
 
@Matt,

Thanks for the compliment. Many parts from Amazon, some from Newegg, some from other vendors (frozencpu, ncix) chopped up due to availability first, price incl. free shipping on others where stock wasn't an issue.

Originally was planning on a dual xeon SR-2 build, but then realized the increased performance of a 12-core xeon setup wasn't worth the price differential right now (will be building an additional new dual 8-core with EVGA SR-X board most likely, when the mobo and CPUs come out, supposedly around March/April).

So then looked at the 3960X w/ Asus Rampage 4 with 2100/CL9 RAM (like Jeff Kilgroe) but after further research, the Asus P9x79 deluxe offered more of the features I was interested in and the price diff was significant. I was looking for a build that I could overclock stable in a 24/7 and set and forget. The P9X79 Deluxe fit the bill perfectly and was A) available, B) less expensive. The Rampage 4 is a GREAT board, but it is more suited for overclocking enthusiasts that need a on-screen HUD and realtime adjusting of all the tweaked settings like Vcore, multipliers, RAM timings, etc. As well, the SB-E i7-3930k vs 3960x are both 6-core SandyBridge-E. The only differences are: 3.2 vs. 3.3 GHz base clockrate (by others accounts, stable overclocks between 4.2-4.6 by others accounts, and up to 5.0 GHz on water cooling); 12 vs. 15 MB more L3 cache; ~$400-500 price diff.

Still waiting on the mobo, H100 CPU cooler and video card before I build -- hopefully this weekend. Once I have tweaked it to the highest stable config and have done a lengthy burn-in I will be sure to let you know how its handling it all. In the meantime, just got my X and plan on changing out my CP.2s to PL and doing some shooting to get acclimated. Looks like I will be having a fun week!

PS -- All my audio gear is out of town with my R1. Know anyone that has/rents ME66/416, NTG2/3 for a good price? I want to try piping audio with ABox run&gun to my X from now til Sunday. If so, PM me. Thanks.
 
Justin Harrison said:
The VideoGuys DIY9 build is going to be the ASUS Pro board with a 3930K chip: VideoGuys DIY9
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They're choosing to use a Quadro 4000 because it's Avid only supports the Quadros. I don't get why he's not testing a GTX570/580, as well. It would be nice if they would do that. But I know they're trying to push the Quadro at more than twice the cost of a 580.

I still look forward to the results of the build.
 
Quite off topic, but

Is there a way when we have a quadro 4000 and 2 GTx 580, to assign the quadro for GUI in Resolve and the GTX for GPUs. And to assign for Adobe one of the GTX ? (I hope Adobe will support multi GPU one day)
 
Yes for 1.
No for 2,you have to move your monitor connector from the quadro to the GTX and assign this GTX for GUI and Adobe.
 
Very new to the PC world, tired of waiting and a bit scared of apple.

What dou you guys think for a CS5/Resolve system:

Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition 3.3GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 Six-Core Desktop Processor
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme/BF3 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard
G .SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
EVGA GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 03G-P3-1584-AR Video Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 02G-P3-1568-KR Video Card (GUI)

or

(2X) Intel Xeon E5645 2.4GHz LGA 1366 80W Six-Core Server Processor
EVGA Classified SR-2 270-WS-W555-A2 HPTX Intel Motherboard
(4X) G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL7T-12GBRH
EVGA GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 03G-P3-1584-AR Video Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 02G-P3-1568-KR Video Card (GUI)

any advice is great appreciated !
 
Hey Philipe, encoders and things (like Adobe and Compressor) tend to max out well before 2x6core/24-threads, so the additional CPU won't really help you out... currently. I'd even say you should get the 3930 as it's half the price and only 100MHz difference. A 3930, 6core/12thread system would probably cost half as much when you factor in the more expensive mobo and additional CPU. With those kinds of savings you could essentially buy another updated system later this year guilt-free (that said, IvyBridge is supposed to be pretty much the exact same as SandyBridge-E, except have ondie graphics and 20% heat/power reduction.)
 
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