Hi all,
I'm involved with entry level video production (vast majority of footage based on DSLRs and gopros), and although I prefer to prepare the rough cut on a laptop (lenovo w520 workstation with 2820qm, quadro 2000m, 24gb ram), I would like to have a desktop so I can use it for rendering and post production as well as revisions to the cut.
I already had the laptops fan replaced once due it being worn out due to the rendering. I love the portability and power that the laptop gives me and I like to keep it ready for new work and not bogged down with tons of cached data and raw footage.
We are looking at vimeo/youtube HD/4k level quality final renders. No fancy film camera footage yet.
I've been looking at the fire sale dual xeon builds as well but I just feel that it would be better to be covered by somewhat more recent platform with native USB3 and better SSD support than going with those ancient towers, but, the whole point of this thread is to build the best build with consensus form the forum.
The one thing I might have fun playing with on the dual xeon is hackintoshing it (if thats even possible).
I use Adobe products. (premiere pro mostly)
So, TL;dr: Is an AMD 8320e build (purchased from microcenter) with 32 to 64gb ram and overclocked to 4.5ghz (not all the time!) a great little render machine? x99 Intel just doesnt make sense to me at this time because I cannot justify the cost as I would like to wait for Zen.
I'm involved with entry level video production (vast majority of footage based on DSLRs and gopros), and although I prefer to prepare the rough cut on a laptop (lenovo w520 workstation with 2820qm, quadro 2000m, 24gb ram), I would like to have a desktop so I can use it for rendering and post production as well as revisions to the cut.
I already had the laptops fan replaced once due it being worn out due to the rendering. I love the portability and power that the laptop gives me and I like to keep it ready for new work and not bogged down with tons of cached data and raw footage.
We are looking at vimeo/youtube HD/4k level quality final renders. No fancy film camera footage yet.
I've been looking at the fire sale dual xeon builds as well but I just feel that it would be better to be covered by somewhat more recent platform with native USB3 and better SSD support than going with those ancient towers, but, the whole point of this thread is to build the best build with consensus form the forum.
The one thing I might have fun playing with on the dual xeon is hackintoshing it (if thats even possible).
I use Adobe products. (premiere pro mostly)
So, TL;dr: Is an AMD 8320e build (purchased from microcenter) with 32 to 64gb ram and overclocked to 4.5ghz (not all the time!) a great little render machine? x99 Intel just doesnt make sense to me at this time because I cannot justify the cost as I would like to wait for Zen.