Resolve comes to Windows

[Eric Fiegehen]

You might be able to find a good motherboard with 7 PCIe Gen2 x16 slots (physical), but you won’t find one with 16 PCIe Gen2 x16 slots (electrical and physical). Cubix has a 16-slot solution.

Eric

[Vladimir Kucherov]

Very true but there’s diminishing returns. Being able to run say, 3 GPUs, decklink, redrocket, and a raid card gets you a lot more than just 2 GPUs, a decklink, and raid.

Those looking for 16 slot expansions are probably working on fairly high end projects and aren’t looking to shave an extra 2-3 grand off a system.

[Margus Voll]

Good windows machines are hi end Dell or HP for example but they will cost probably more than mac pro.

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Margus

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[Ola Haldor voll]

So I started looking at motherboards, CPUs, PSU and GPU. What would be better? Two XEON or one kick ass i7?

I chose two 4-core XEON to begin with, 12GB ECC RAM, 4x GTX 580, and the computer (excluding hard drives, DVD burner, case and Windows license) would cost me about $5000 according to Googles Norwegian Krones to USD conversion.

It’s a price I can live with. So the next question would be; will this be on par with a Linux solution? Better or worse?

I’ve never touched Windows for work since the days of Adobe Premiere 6 and the genuine software (formerly known as) Avid Liquid. When Vista came I jumped over to Mac and have ever since been a Mac guy. Love the OS. Just too bad there’s no way I can add more GPUs in a cost-effective way; internal – not external.

[Margus Voll]

as far as i see linux is more optimized compared to windows. i mean the os does not bog machine down
as windows does on some machines.

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Margus

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[Ola Haldor voll]

I’m blank on Linux. I’ve never touched it, nor is there anywhere to get info about what hardware and distro is supported. That makes me think Windows is overall the better solution for me.

I’m sure BMD do a great job with the Linux version, but if I can’t read up on info and learn a bit on my own, I’m not buying.

As I said on twitter;

XEON E3-1280 3.5Ghz, 12GB RAM, 4 GTX580, 14TB internal RAID5.. That should do it for Resolve on Windows? About $6000 !

That motherboard has 8 slots for PCI Express 2.0 16x… I can have up to 6 GPUs, Decklink and a dedicated GUI GPU.

[Margus Voll]

gpu count is a killer for sure. modern linux should not be any different from osx in my mind if it has good ui support. i have installed some of them to relatives to just have net computer and it is not too hard.

windows used to have one good option. it was prorez decoder app so one could still open
prorez files made on mac and render out to something else. i’m not sure if it is a live after fcpx release.

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Margus

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[Ola Haldor voll]

I’m not sure it even takes the 4444 codec..