Editing Workstation Upgrade

[yathis]

Least the L-man is smiling in the thumbnail for this vid

Freebie's always brings a smile to whomever got that shit for FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Ezio Auditore]

Another video explaining your editing workflow will be useful especially with your new RED camera footage

[dylandylandylan]

I apologize if it's been answered already - but what is the case they're using? 

[XHAD]

2 hours ago, dylandylandylan said:

I apologize if it's been answered already - but what is the case they're using? 

in the main post just to answer your question

Buy Corsair 460X on Amazon: http://geni.us/45tM1SA

 

[dalekphalm]

17 hours ago, Arty said:

a 7 gamers 1 (2*) cpu sort of setup, but instead of it being 7 gamers, 7 editors.

 

I would guess there's to many bugs for their setup atm.  

 

 

My old HS's plan, next upgrade cycle is to go to centralized server for the engineering computers with thin clients.

The library computers are already using this.  

 

Plus Intel sponsored, (assuming their sponsorship allowed for it) they could have gone all out , and have produced and multi episode series on this @LinusTech

 

 

Edit:

saw @nicklmg's comment

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This was directly answered in the video by referencing this video.

 Maybe Next Gen Cpu's with higher clocks will be more efficient? (Or more realistic next upgrade cycle 5 years from now?)

 

I would be interested to see if using more lower core count higher clocked, in a multi socket board, instead of just 1 ballin cpu, would be a better solution.

 

so essentially 4 of these https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/xeon/e7-processors/e7-8893-v2.html

vs 1 of these https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/xeon/e7-processors/e7-8890-v4.html

or somethings in between. 

 

Fair enough - I just don't really see the benefit of that over giving each user their own workstation, aside from "because we could".

 

 By using individual workstations, they will be minimizing issues and any potential troubleshooting will be significantly easier to diagnose.

[Guest]

17 hours ago, Arty said:

a 7 gamers 1 (2*) cpu sort of setup, but instead of it being 7 gamers, 7 editors.

 

I would guess there's to many bugs for their setup atm.  

 

 

My old HS's plan, next upgrade cycle is to go to centralized server for the engineering computers with thin clients.

The library computers are already using this.  

 

Plus Intel sponsored, (assuming their sponsorship allowed for it) they could have gone all out , and have produced and multi episode series on this @LinusTech

 

 

Edit:

saw @nicklmg's comment

  Reveal hidden contents

This was directly answered in the video by referencing this video.

 Maybe Next Gen Cpu's with higher clocks will be more efficient? (Or more realistic next upgrade cycle 5 years from now?)

 

I would be interested to see if using more lower core count higher clocked, in a multi socket board, instead of just 1 ballin cpu, would be a better solution.

 

so essentially 4 of these https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/xeon/e7-processors/e7-8893-v2.html

vs 1 of these https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/xeon/e7-processors/e7-8890-v4.html

or somethings in between. 

 

Until you have an issue with the host. 

 

Then suddenly no one is working and you're not making any money. 

 

A school is a very different environment. VDI still has it's uses within business, this just isn't one of them

[AnonymousGuy]

I want to get them set up on a proper whole room watercooling setup.  I feel so unsatisfied seeing the project get abandoned in a non-working state when they switched buildings.

[LexenZ]

Saw the badass video and wanted to know which ram is he using, however the links show an overall view....

May I presume is this model of ram he is using? CMR64GX4M8A2666C16

 

https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-PC4-21300-memory-CMR64GX4M8A2666C16/dp/B06ZXY642N/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1497607870&sr=8-2&keywords=corsair+vengeance+rgb+8x8gb

[Awsomestar123456]

What monitor's do you guys use?

[Testing123]

Linus, since you were able to choose any motherboard, why did you choose the ASUS X99-A II over an ASUS X99 Deluxe II?

Thanks...

[Testing123]

On ‎6‎/‎24‎/‎2017 at 5:21 AM, Testing123 said:

Linus, since you were able to choose any motherboard, why did you choose the ASUS X99-A II over an ASUS X99 Deluxe II?

Thanks...

Hello?

I don't ask the above question frivolously. I am genuinely interested and the answer will have weight in personal rig build.

 

Thanks...

[dalekphalm]

1 hour ago, Testing123 said:

Hello?

I don't ask the above question frivolously. I am genuinely interested and the answer will have weight in personal rig build.

 

Thanks...

No offense, but the odds of Linus personally answering this post is preeeeeeeeetty much 1 in 10,000.

 

They probably didn't choose the Deluxe II because they likely had no need for the extra features.

 

If you're comparing the X99-A II over the X99 Deluxe II, just choose the one that has the features you need. They'll be pretty much identical otherwise in performance and stability.

[Testing123]

Thanks for the response, @dalekphalm .

I don't really need the extras that the Deluxe II brings either.

I appreciate your help.

[slavikcc]

I kind of wish we could see the editors do the upgrade themselves, like this video back almost two years ago:

 

[A-c0rN]

@LinusTech What is the Thunderbolt card in there? 

[yathis]

On 6/24/2017 at 6:21 AM, Testing123 said:

Linus, since you were able to choose any motherboard, why did you choose the ASUS X99-A II over an ASUS X99 Deluxe II?

Thanks...

Because he got a steep discount, were given to him for free, or he had a bunch laying around.

 

[my real name doesnt work]

How did you get the lighting controller on the top of the case to work with the hd120 fans?

[Marinatall_Ironside]

On 6/13/2017 at 5:30 PM, Arty said:

a 7 gamers 1 (2*) cpu sort of setup, but instead of it being 7 gamers, 7 editors.

 

I would guess there's to many bugs for their setup atm.  

 

 

My old HS's plan, next upgrade cycle is to go to centralized server for the engineering computers with thin clients.

The library computers are already using this.  

 

Plus Intel sponsored, (assuming their sponsorship allowed for it) they could have gone all out , and have produced and multi episode series on this @LinusTech

 

 

Edit:

saw @nicklmg's comment

  Reveal hidden contents

This was directly answered in the video by referencing this video.

 Maybe Next Gen Cpu's with higher clocks will be more efficient? (Or more realistic next upgrade cycle 5 years from now?)

 

I would be interested to see if using more lower core count higher clocked, in a multi socket board, instead of just 1 ballin cpu, would be a better solution.

 

so essentially 4 of these https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/xeon/e7-processors/e7-8893-v2.html

vs 1 of these https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/xeon/e7-processors/e7-8890-v4.html

or somethings in between. 

 

Only problem that I see here is if there's an issue with the server, then no one is working, and people will not be happy. I'd rather place my bets on individual workstations so that if there's an issue, only a few of those can be diagnosed and everyone else is happy.

 

The only thing that I will centralize however, is storage. Everyone has access to the same storage off of the storage server, and I would run both an on-site and an off-site backup image of all of the storage contents, and run the servers on a RAID 50 or a RAID 60 array.

Edited September 17, 2017 by JurunceNK

[PenguinMaster]

On 6/12/2017 at 4:25 PM, LinusTech said:

Maintenance on large air coolers can be a bit of a pain in the butt if you have some RAM issues or whatever.

 

They also look nicer this way.

 

Other than that, yes, an air cooler provides fewer points of failure (ideally one in push-pull for redundancy) if you  want a system to last for a very very long time maintenance-free.

Yeah that would be a great idea. Probably something we'll get around to at some point.

So what are the exact specs of the editing pc's?