£1500 workstation for after effects/video editing

[agour]

Hey,

I'm pricing up a new build for a workstation for video/photo editing. I mainly use after effects to batch process Canon RAW files (.cr2) in to video.. so the computer has to open up hundreds of files one after another.

Of course this bogs any system down, so I'm after building a highly capable machine to process things quickly.

I was tempted to put another SSD in there too. One SSD for OS, and two SSD's in RAID 0 for processing the files on.

Here's what I have come up with:



(I know I'll need a case and such).

I'm not really clued up on hardware these days, as it's been a few years since I last built a PC.


Let me know what you think, or any suggestions on things I could do to squeeze the most performance out of it.

Cheers!

[starkyller]

Well the ddr3 memory WON't work you need ddr4. I would suggest a workstation GPU. since it's not my money I suggest you visit this http://www.nvidia.com/object/workstation-solutions.html and http://www.amd.com/en-us/solutions/p...ional/d-series . In case you don't have the money I think that the 970 strix from asus is better.

[MrJim]

I wouldn't go for the Kingston V300 SSD, it has a bit of a poor reputation. I'd go for the 256Gb or 512Gb Crucial MX100, which has power-failure protection amongst other features, as well as being reasonably fast & good value.

Does the editing software you use support CUDA and / or OpenCL? If it does, it might affect your choice of graphics card.

[agour]

Ahh yes, thanks for the heads up abou the memory! I was originally looking at a different mobo/cpu, and forgot to check the memory was compatible.

I might be able to stretch to a Quadro 2000D, but I'm googling around now to weigh up the pros/cons. I don't use a lot of plugins (which the Quadro would really excell with).

Thanks for the heads up on the SSDs! I'll definitely look at the other option.

Yeah AE supports CUDA, which would make sense to go with the Quadro.

[Millennium]

If it helps, I put a 256gb MX100 in mum's pc to avoid having to worry about an oldish hard drive failing - and it's brilliant. It's only been about 3.5 months of course, though I'm quite confident for light to middling use over many years the mx100 is a good choice.

Having a bigger one would be my suggestion for you, if you're not going to be doing video scratch or encoding work on it every other day at multiple gigs of writes at a time. If then, say, the other option would be some bigger nm MLC drive perhaps an m550.

[george1979]

I wouldn't bother with a Quadro for the work you are doing. The workstation cards have their benefits in terms of the ECC memory etc but these enhancements, as I understand it, are helpful in animation and 3D modelling etc where you absolutely can't take the risk of a dropped frame. The 970 with be plenty, especially with its 4Gb of memory. I still use a gtx570 and the only thing that holds it back is the 1.2Gb of VRAM in after effects.

Save the money and put that into your CPU and storage - you'll see more benefit from it.

EDIT - if you can get a 780Ti on the cheap that might be a better option

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

ATM,I have not seen any reviews comparing CC performance of the GTX980 and GTX780 and GTX780TI. The former has improved OpenCL performance,but it is uncertain whether CUDA performance has improved.

Also,more importantly you seem to have chosen a TN monitor for image editing?? Especially with no calibrator?? Its probably more important to be considering a good image editing monitor and calibration setup above a powerful PC in the first place.