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New machine for Resolve
If you would put together a new pc for davinci resolve for around 1500bugs – what components would you suggest (mainboard -very important, cpu, graphics card gtx470 or 580 oder 590)?
I am planing in setting up a medium cost davinci machine since i am a student and have no 10K budget – but want to train my skills.thank you for your help, jules
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for a quick guide, read this one:
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/media/3270740/DaVinci_Resolve_Win_Config_Guide.pdf -
i know this guide – but it´s a bit expensive to buy the recommended stuff.
as i said i want to train my skills in colorgrading and think, that resolve lite is a very good starting point.what do you think of this
Mainboard: https://geizhals.at/eu/669685
and CPU: https://geizhals.at/eu/580332
and maybe ´cause of price/performance a GTX570?Is it Ok to start?
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Take the DaVinci guide as your reference. You can use 3930K CPU instead, half the price and very fast! Quadro 4000 as GUI graphics card has the advantage of only using up 1 slot, while most fast cards use up double slots on the motherboard. But you can use almost any card for monitors. Fastest supported GPU is GTX580 at the moment. With P9X79 motherboard take 4x8GB RAM so you can later add 32GB later totaling 64GB. SSD as system drive, 2 fast SATA drives as RAID0 is minimum for media drive (for compressed video).
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Hey. Thank you very much – This is what i was waiting for!
Whats the difference between this P9X79 board: https://geizhals.at/eu/699593
And the more expensive P9X79 board: https://geizhals.at/eu/700142Do i need the more expensive one?
Thank you very much
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I’d highly recommend the P9X79 WS (the more expensive one) for the additional PCIe ports
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The difference is the number of useable slots on the WS version, you could build up a Resolve machine with a GUI card and a single GTX-590 (which is two 580’s on a single card) and then have room for Red-Rocket and a Raid card later.
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so ok i see the advantages of the ASUS P9X79 WS.
i will take the i7-3820, 4×3.6ghz CPU.
what kind of Ram would you recommend? i´ll start with 2×8 GBthank you so much,
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it’s triple channel, so get 3x8gb or 3x4gb.
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X79 chipset is Quadruple-channel, not triple (X58 was)! So if possible you should get 4x8GB, but 8GB sticks aren’t widely available. Cheaper would be to start with 4x4GB and still have 4 empty slots.
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Of course. My bad. I’ve just built two of these systems lol. 4×4 is good (-:
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