Imaginationland

[Habubu]

So there i was walking along the road and what should i find but a bottomless pot of gold! Go me!! so decided to build me a new computer! Now this is not going to be a real build this has only existed as an idea in my head so using the bullet points posted in the sticky by windspeed give a bit of background.

1. Budget & Location
Budget: bottomless pot of gold, anything goes even if i have to rent a private jet and buy a piece on Tristan de Cunha or Deception Island (or in fact charter a ship as both those places lack runways).
Cost and Value for money are not considerations in this build.
2. Aim 
I want to be able to build it myself so the power tools will be staying in the hardware store. Custom water loops are not something I'm excessively enthused about so will not be a part of this (sorry, but it's just not gonna happen).
Gonna be used mainly for video/photo editing, creative cloud, davinci resolve etc. There'll also be some gaming but not a massive amount  

3. Monitors
There will be three, or six (read on and you'll see) 30" Dell U3014 Widescreen 2560x1600 

 

4. Peripherals
Was hoping to attach a mouse and a keyboard really.  :) 

5. Why are you upgrading?

Cause i just lucked out and found a pot of gold!!!!!!

 

 

Xeon Option:

Case: Corsair 900D

Mobo: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Intel

CPU: 2 Intel Xeon E5-2690 

Memory: 64GB (8x8GB) Corsair DDR3 Dominator Platinum

GPU: 5GB PNY Tesla K20 Workstation Solution

         6GB NVIDIA Quadro 6000 Two of these if it's possible to SLI them?

System Drive: A few SSD in RAID 0 might mean a RAID card was thinking eight 256GB drives

Storage Drive: Few enterprise class 3/4TB in raid 5 or 6 

CPU Cooling: 2 corsair h100i

Case Cooling: noctua (it's not going to be pretty but the airflow optimised ones for the case and static pressure for the rads (push pull)

PSU: not sure on this something up to the task 

 

Z79 Option:

Case: Corsair 900D

Mobo: ASRock X79 EXTREME11

CPU:  Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition

Memory: 64GB (8x8GB) Corsair DDR3 Dominator Platinum

GPU: Four Titans 

System Drive: A few SSD in RAID 0

Storage Drive: A few 3/4TB HDD in RAID 5/6

CPU Cooling: H100i

Case Cooling: Noctua (as above)

PSU: not sure on this something up to the task 

 

 

Stupid Crazy Option

Case: Caselabs Magnum TX-D

Mobo: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Intel

CPU: 2 Intel Xeon E5-2690 

Memory: 64GB (8x8GB) Corsair DDR3 Dominator Platinum

GPU: 5GB PNY Tesla K20 Workstation Solution

         6GB NVIDIA Quadro 6000 Two of these if it's possible to SLI them?

System Drive: A few SSD in RAID 0 might mean a RAID card was thinking eight 256GB drives

Storage Drive: Few enterprise class 3/4TB in raid 5 or 6 

CPU Cooling: 2 corsair h100i

Case Cooling: noctua (it's not going to be pretty but the airflow optimised ones for the case and static pressure for the rads (push pull)

PSU: not sure on this something up to the task 

 

Mobo: ASRock X79 EXTREME11

CPU:  Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition

Memory: 64GB (8x8GB) Corsair DDR3 Dominator Platinum

GPU: Four Titans 

System Drive: A few SSD in RAID 0

Storage Drive: A few 3/4TB HDD in RAID 5/6

CPU Cooling: H100i

Case Cooling: Noctua (as above)

PSU: not sure on this something up to the task 

 

Yup that's right both of them in the one box! each one running 3 30 inch screens!

Silly i know but a few questions about it all:

1. Can Quadro be SLI'd? Do programs make use of it (well does after effects?)?

2. For Creative cloud (after effects and premiere pro) from the above list:

a. Xeon and quadro/tesla

b. xeon and titan

c. i7e and quadro/tesla

d. i7e and gtx titan

which would give the best performance the titan has more cuda cores and with the config file hack should be supported in after effects?

 

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Please again this is an imaginary build so value of cost or impending obsolescence is of no concern.

:)