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Hewlett Packard HP-Z840 Workstation
Hi all!
I have a 10 year old Server computer with twin Intel Xeon 3.4 MHz Dual Core Processors. I have no problems editing MXF files from my Panasonic AJ-SPX800P Cameras, but it is really slow on GoPro footage. I want to move into an HP Z840 Workstation with an NVIDIA Quadro P6000 Video card to take advantage of the Mercury Playback Engine and enough ram to choke a horse, but I don’t know which processors to buy… i5… i7… i9 (18 cores? Yikes!)
I’d like to be able to edit my MXF files, 4k and really fast rendering times.
I don’t mind spending the extra money (well maybe I do)… I just want it to be a one time purchase. It’s probably going to be the last computer I’ll buy. 20 years in the Motion Picture Industry and I’m 70 now. I basically do videos to supplement my SS which isn’t much as I basically worked as a vendor.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Best,
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1 Reply
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Hi Mike,
An i7 (6-core) with 32GB and GTX 1080 graphics is a decent starting configuration for editing HD and 4K. Using SSD system drive, SSD scratch/Adobe cache drive, and RAID storage (internal or external).
If budget allows, upgrading to an i9 processor with more cores certainly would not hurt, and you could bump RAM up to 64GB.
About the video card – Premiere only uses the GPU to accelerate certain things, not everything, so keep that in mind. Scaling and Lumetri Effects are a couple of things the GPU does, and not a whole lot more, so spending thousands on the GPU may not be the best place to allocate budget. Shift that Quadro 6000 money into RAM and processor upgrades.
The GTX 1080 cards are very powerful and popular for Premiere, perhaps go 1080ti for a little more performance.
You might consider a custom workstation built specifically for Adobe editing versus an HP or Dell-type solution, where you will never get proper tech support for an editing rig. Puget Systems or Safe Harbor (I work there) for instance.
Thank you
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers
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