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I need Workstation/NAS advice

BoringBill
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Budget (including currency): 700 to 800 USD

Country:United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Video Editing Premier Pro/DaVinci Resolve 

I work for a small start up as the content editor and manager I was going to be building a editing rig this summer but as some will know with start ups budgets often change. The plan was to build a editing pc then in a year or so to build a storage NAS so my question is the company is back at a spot where the budget can afford 700 to 800 usd towards a new rig, but I would like more. So would it be reasonable to build a pc with older hardware like a dual xeon e5 1660 v3 or something similar use it as a workstation temporarily then when I build my main rig use this one as a data server after that. If you think that's a plausible idea what hardware should I use in it? Preferably something cheaper that can do a lot of multitasking that's one of the many reasons I mentioned a dual xeon set up, I fall into the very niche category of people that would get a benefit from it, but it's definitely not a requirement. Also 800 is the most I can spend I'd like to spend closer to 500 or 600.

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Welcome to the forums!
My recommendation would be an HP z840 workstation. Or if that is too expensive, an HP z640. My dual Xeon z840 is quite nice for video editing, but the overall cost was in the $1600 range. These machines can be found for rather cheap - my preferred retailer is pcserverandparts.com. You could probably get 16-20 cores for that price.

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44 minutes ago, Mel0n. said:

Welcome to the forums!
My recommendation would be an HP z840 workstation. Or if that is too expensive, an HP z640. My dual Xeon z840 is quite nice for video editing, but the overall cost was in the $1600 range. These machines can be found for rather cheap - my preferred retailer is pcserverandparts.com. You could probably get 16-20 cores for that price.

Thanks for the advice I'll definitely take this into consideration 

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