*Branded* system for Adobe premiere elements

[zelda1031]

hi guys dunno if i post at the right place, mod please move this post to related place if required.

 

currently i was requested to purchase a system for my company for video editing purposes, using adobe premiere elements, but we can only purchase system from vendor such as dell, lenovo due to company policy.

 

i have checked with dell, their better workstation were all installed with xeon and quadro, i was quoted with about USD$2300 for a workstation installed with 4770k and quadro 2000k(they do not have better gtx gpu such as gtx680 etc)

 

it seems like gtx680 will out perform 2000k with the same price point?

 

 

i have checked on lenovo website as well, all their better workstation were only installed with xeon and quadro as well.

 

i felt that it is not worth to spend $$$ on quadro but all vendors dont seems to have gtx, is there a reason quadro is prefered ? or what would you guys reccomend ? (mainly used for video editing with adobe premiere elements)

 

thank you.

 

 

 

[Glenwing]

The GeForce 600 and 700 series are very bad for Adobe; NVIDIA crippled their GPGPU capabilities to make room for gaming performance.  In Adobe they get outperformed handily by the 500 series.

 

Premiere CS6 and CC support OpenCL now, so you could go with a Radeon 7000 series card if you can find one; that would be much better.

[ajoy39]

Quadros and GeForce cards aren't really competitors, while the Geforce cards certainly have more raw power they're optimized for gaming. Quadro's are the professional series of cards for a reason they are more optimized for professional level tasks like video encoding, and they are more stable. 

[WoodenMarker]

Quadro is inherently supported by Adobe programs while you need to unlock the cuda cores for a gtx card. Gtx cards are made for gaming and are less precise which might be important when how a gpu renders a project since a quadro is less likely to mess up a calculation and mess it up.

[zelda1031]

hmmm ok, i would assume 2000k is a better choice compared to gtx 680 for video editing ......

 

how about Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1240 vs 4770k ?

[Glenwing]

E3-1240 is a little bit lesser than the 4770K but not by too much.

 

The Lenovo ThinkStation S30 will run you around $2500 for a 6-core Xeon E5-1650, 8GB of RAM, and a Quadro K2000.

Same configuration on a Dell Precision T5600 is about $3200.

[zelda1031]

hmm ok i guess i would just get what was reccomend by Dell sales person to get the system with intel 4770 with 2000k thanks for all the help guys :)

[Morfy]

Single or dual socket boards?

[zelda1031]

i would assume single as it was pre-build by dell

[Dieman566]

i would assume single as it was pre-build by dell

 

What about digital storm workstations?  They are a vendor and have all the stuff dell has but its not shit.

 

 http://www.digitalstormonline.com/dso-ws/

[fishymamba]

What about digital storm workstations?  They are a vendor and have all the stuff dell has but its not shit.

 

 http://www.digitalstormonline.com/dso-ws/

I'm guessing that they are out of his price range. They start at $4100. It does have 12 cores which could be very helpful with video editing.