Resolve work station and gaming

[Juan Salvo]

I think Joseph’s broader point is that Resolve is a professional application with which to do work… and trying to multipurpose it as a gaming system is probably not a good idea, and suggests you aren’t serious about doing professional work.

And that if you wan’t to play video games you’re better off getting a dedicated system to that purpose.

But all of that I think is self evident.

BTW, you can use a keyboard and mouse on the PS3. Many FPSs support it.

[Sergio Reynoso]

Yes, it goes without saying…

While I do appreciate the suggestion, recommending a PS3 absolutely has nothing to do with answering my specific question. And yes I wont be doing any professional work other than my own work, as I just started learning Resolve.

If I end up having issues, no biggie. My first and foremost intention is to have a work station.

[Juan Salvo]

If your priority is a video workstation / game system, with the ability to play around with resolve. I’d recommend saving a little $ and just getting a 580. You can run resolve on a single card, you’ll just take a performance hit. But not a huge one. If you’ve got a client breathing down your neck it would be better to have two cards. But since your just using it to learn it shouldn’t be much of an issue, you’ll save some cash, and avoid having to switch the monitor cable everytime you want to play a game.

And, btw, I did answer your specific question a ways back, before I got smarmy.

Here an actually helpful tip. If you’re going to edit using premiere you’ll need your beefier card connected to the monitor anyway to take advantage of the mercury engine. Which will help a lot with your 5d footage. So all around one card is a better choice.

Maybe wait till 680 ships, and save the $ from quadro for a bigger ssd boot drive or more ram.

[Sergio Reynoso]

Thank you very much for that. Saving money at this point is very important to me, this is why I asked if I can get away with a bit of entertainment value out such a big investment.

Running Premiere out of the Quadro was also a concern of mine. Since there is a good chance the 680 is around the corner I am going to get the bare minimum to run Premiere and Resolve for now, until the card is release. Having to save a bit of money at this stage will help me save up for an I/O card and monitor not too far down the line.

Not to spin this off into another topic, and without going into the details, here are my specs:

Core i7 3930k
ASUS P9X79 Delux mobo
32Gb of Ram
250GB 7200 rpm SATA for OS ( Will upgrade to an SSD in the future).
2x 500GB 7200 rpm SATA on raid 0 running of the mobo’s raid control for Scratch disk and Page files.
Areca ARC-1882I Raid card + x6 2TB drives configured to raid 6.
1275W Power supply.
Video is to be determined.

Best,
Sr