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What Type of PC configuration is good For Resolve?

Hi Andrew,

You can compare the controller a little bit to a pencil. Drawing with a pencil is way easier, faster and nicer than with a mouse.

In resolve you'll find yourself using the primary controls a lot, let's say 75% of the time youre workíng in there. Specifically these controls are very hard to use with a mouse and very easy with the trackballs.

My last point is that you can keep your eyes on the image while you're using the controller, which makes the whole process more 'organic' as you work with your hands to craft what you see.

I have a tangent wave panel and i absolutely love it. Its mobile and has usb connection and also text labelled leds (something the artist color is missing) so its easy to learn.
 
I'm not by far a pc builder so I asked a good friend of mine to help me picking some parts that should work together.
My question is if this is a good configuration and what could I espect for realtime perfomance in resolve with 4k r3d as source material?
Im not sure how Adobe premiere works with dual graphic cards so that why I choosed two gtx 580.

The pland PC


ASUS P9X79 PRO X79 S-2011 ATX + CORSAIR H100 HYDRO CPU COOLER
COOLER MASTER SILENT PRO GOLD ATX12V 2.3 1200W
2x GIGABYTE GEFORCE GTX 580 3GB PCI-E DVI/HDMI
INTEL CORE I7 3930K 3.20GHZ 12MB S-2011
KINGSTON 24GB 1066MHZ DDR3 ECC REG W/P - KVR1066MHZD3Q8R7SK3/24G
LIAN LI FULLTOWER PC-A77FB EATX SILVER
OCZ OCTANE 2.5" 256GB SSD SATA/600 MLC

An black magic card is also to be added shortly.

Any thoughts would be much appricated!
 
Hi Joel,

Im also not a PC builder, but I'm currently researching my options for building a resolve system. The main thing I'm missing in your list is a graphics card for the GUI. If you add that, let's say a simple one, then Resolve will utilize the 2 GTX cards as GPU and tat will increase speed a lot!

Have you calculated the total cost for this workstation? I'm curious...

Good luck,

Pepijn
 
Pepijn Klijs said:
Hi Joel,
Have you calculated the total cost for this workstation? I'm curious...
Pepijn
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Yes I have calculated in swedish "kronor" as im bying it from a Scandanavian company. I would pay around 4421 USD.
 
Joel Arvidsson said:
I'm not by far a pc builder so I asked a good friend of mine to help me picking some parts that should work together.
My question is if this is a good configuration and what could I espect for realtime perfomance in resolve with 4k r3d as source material?
Im not sure how Adobe premiere works with dual graphic cards so that why I choosed two gtx 580.

The pland PC


ASUS P9X79 PRO X79 S-2011 ATX + CORSAIR H100 HYDRO CPU COOLER
COOLER MASTER SILENT PRO GOLD ATX12V 2.3 1200W
2x GIGABYTE GEFORCE GTX 580 3GB PCI-E DVI/HDMI
INTEL CORE I7 3930K 3.20GHZ 12MB S-2011
KINGSTON 24GB 1066MHZ DDR3 ECC REG W/P - KVR1066MHZD3Q8R7SK3/24G
LIAN LI FULLTOWER PC-A77FB EATX SILVER
OCZ OCTANE 2.5" 256GB SSD SATA/600 MLC

An black magic card is also to be added shortly.

Any thoughts would be much appricated!
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I just built a very si,ilar system with the same motherboard and processor. I got the GTX560ti with 2gb of ram from Asus which is about half the price of the GTX580 with 3gb of ram. I also have a quadro 580fx which i used for the gui in resolve. I tested it in resolve lite with a 1080p25 timeline debayering red 4k at half good at 10bit and it ran realtime just fine with 5 nodes. Im going to try running it with just the GTX560ti for both gui and processing and remove my much slower quadro 580fx. This will make running both premier and resolve much easier as premier only uses the primary display card for cuda processing.

Will update once i test it a little more. But based on my experience, your system should run 1080p timelines very nicely in resolve and get excellent performance in premier. My Quadro fx580 only has 32 cuda cores and runs premier with 4k r3d's nicely at 1/4 debayer.
 
Woah! Hearing figure like these makes me just want to wait for the next Mac Pro tower. 2k for a PC is more doable. If I am gonna pay 4k, I at least want a stable OS to run my apps.

How's windows 7 working for everyone?

Joel Arvidsson said:
4421 USD.
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Danai Chutinaton said:
This will make running both premier and resolve much easier as premier only uses the primary display card for cuda processing.
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Your right about Adobe's Mercury Playback Engin. But exactly wrong about Resolve. Resolve does not use the primary display card (GUI) for CUDA processing. It requires a second card for CUDA (gpu) processing.
 
Paul,

So if you have one card that is ass kicking and one that is ehh, what do you? Is there some workaround, certainly switching their locations (either physically or chaging the primary monitor via the Desktop) is not a workable option everytime you switch apps.

Thanks for the help!
 
Paul Nordin said:
Your right about Adobe's Mercury Playback Engin. But exactly wrong about Resolve. Resolve does not use the primary display card (GUI) for CUDA processing. It requires a second card for CUDA (gpu) processing.
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You are correct, I was unclear in my statement. I meant easier in the sense that I won't have to swap cables back and forth between two video cards.

I have tried running resolve with just a single card for both GUI and Processing and its running quite fine for my current use. I'm getting realtime 4k 1/2 good at the moment...I've tested up to 5 nodes but haven't gone beyond that. I will probably get a 580 or 680 down the line when my resolve needs increase.
 
Will Keir said:
How's windows 7 working for everyone?
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After over 3 extensive years with Windows 7 now, I can safely and definitively conclude it is the most stable and refined OS I have ever used. All it needs is a stable hardware build - so make sure you choose the right and balanced components, and of course, stable apps. In general, you will find several reports of Resolve builds on these forums based around X79, Core i7 39xx and GTX 580s. That has unanimously proved to be a high performance, stable and very cost effective build around these parts.
 
Andrew Huse said:
I have seen the Tangent Element and it seems most people like it. I'm just trying to figure out what the main point of control panels are in the first place.
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One of the most important things a panel allowe you to do is to adjust two parameters at once. You often need to balance gamma against lift or gamma against gain, for example. A panel allows you to do that much more interactively, rather than going back and forth between the two controls with a mouse.
 
Danai Chutinaton said:
I have tried running resolve with just a single card for both GUI and Processing and its running quite fine for my current use. I'm getting realtime 4k 1/2 good at the moment...
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Did you mean 1080 25 timeline?
 
Yes, 1080p timeline outputting via ultrastudio sdi. I'm thinking a gtx 580 would have been a better choice but i needed to save some money so this will get me by for now. Ive read that with a 580 its possible to playback 1/2 good for 1080p timeline in premier. I can only do 1/4 debayer with my 560ti with 2gb of ram.
 
More stable and Mac OS?

Subhadip Sen said:
After over 3 extensive years with Windows 7 now, I can safely and definitively conclude it is the most stable and refined OS I have ever used. All it needs is a stable hardware build - so make sure you choose the right and balanced components, and of course, stable apps. In general, you will find several reports of Resolve builds on these forums based around X79, Core i7 39xx and GTX 580s. That has unanimously proved to be a high performance, stable and very cost effective build around these parts.
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Stivan Widick said:
Super stable--never any crashes. My iPad is a lot less reliable than my Win7 x64 workstation.
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If you're talking about crashes by the OS itself, even XP 32-bit w/ all the Service Paks was extremely stable.
 
OK...I was wrong about reliably running 4k 1/2 Good debayer on my 3930k processor in Davinci Resolve for a 1080p25 timeline. My CPU is at 99-100% the whole time and I'm getting 22-24 fps. My system runs perfectly if I'm using 4k 1/4 Good debayer. At 1/4 debayer my CPU's are running at about 50%. Seems like Resolve is quite good at using all the cores at the same time. Anyone else have similar experience with the 3930k processor? My GUI GPU is Quadro 580fx and my CUDA GUP is 570ti with 2GB of ram.

EDIT: With 4KHD footage I can get 1/2 Good debayer in real time. But not with regular 4K as noted above.
 
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