Multimedia Desktop Build

[jshhndsd]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm interested in recommendations for a desktop PC build for multimedia use so that I am able to get the most out of it in terms of the best speeds for rendering of multimedia/system processes as well as visual quality and storage. I would be grateful for your assistance. 

 

Thanks in advance.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Budget?

 

What programs?

[jshhndsd]

9 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Budget?

 

What programs?

Thanks for your reply. There are no limits on my budget. I will be running Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Fuse and Audition. Basically all hardware demanding applications.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Here is a 

7 hours ago, jshhndsd said:

Thanks for your reply. There are no limits on my budget. I will be running Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Fuse and Audition. Basically all hardware demanding applications.

good build for you use http://pcpartpicker.com/list/89Y9cc

 

If you want prebuilt, id look at something like a dell xps or a precision.

[Streetguru]

17 hours ago, jshhndsd said:

 

Are you doing any gaming?

What's your display set up?

 

Is this a professional thing? Do you have a 100% Adobe RGB 10-bit display?

And what's your actual budget?

Should definitely go X99 over Z170

GPU depends on previous things
 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/Zbg8RB
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/Zbg8RB/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($368.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($219.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($67.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Mushkin ECO3 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($64.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  ($35.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $925.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-09 13:11 EDT-0400

[jshhndsd]

3 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Are you doing any gaming?

What's your display set up?

 

Is this a professional thing? Do you have a 100% Adobe RGB 10-bit display?

And what's your actual budget?

Should definitely go X99 over Z170

GPU depends on previous things
 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/Zbg8RB
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/Zbg8RB/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($368.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($219.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($67.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Mushkin ECO3 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($64.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  ($35.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $925.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-09 13:11 EDT-0400

Hi, thanks for your reply. I don't have any limits on my budget. I am looking for the best of the best. I will not be doing any gaming. I am going for a single 4k display setup for now with the 50 inch vizio P50-C1. 

[brob]

I have two thoughts. The first is a "prosumer" build. Very good performance.

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6800K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor  ($428.30 @ B&H) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($66.38 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus X99-A II ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($225.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($349.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 2TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($624.99 @ B&H) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card  ($679.99 @ B&H) 
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($128.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $2604.62
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-09 10:16 EDT-0400

 

The second is more of a professional workstation. Excellent performance with a Quadro gpu and ECC memory.

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1650 V4 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor  ($603.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($59.50 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus X99-M WS Micro ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($263.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Crucial 64GB (4 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory  ($336.95 @ B&H) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 4TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($1449.00 @ B&H) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 4TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($1449.00 @ B&H) 
Video Card: PNY Quadro M5000 8GB Video Card  ($1789.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Fractal Design Define Mini MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($119.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $6162.40
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-09 19:00 EDT-0400

 

In the second build suggested storage is intended to be run as a RAID 1 array. Both motherboards do support M.2 4-lane ssd so one might consider using a high performance drive like a Samsung 950 Pro M.2 for boot and system.

 

The psu is oversize to allow for additional gpu to improve render performance if needed.

[Streetguru]

5 hours ago, jshhndsd said:

Hi, thanks for your reply. I don't have any limits on my budget. I am looking for the best of the best. I will not be doing any gaming. I am going for a single 4k display setup for now with the 50 inch vizio P50-C1. 

Well shit then, go for something like this, dunno if you have a NAS already, or how much storage you need

Motherboard has built in 10-gigabit, and I threw in the current top end fire pro card, it's a dual GPU card, but they're coming out with new ones shortly, you could also just go for a top end quadro card, if you absolutely need Cuda, openCL is generally more widely supported, just not as optimized for, or since you have no real budget, get a Firepro and a Quadro and just run them in the same system and get great OpenCL and Cuda performance

Also only 1 4k display? go for three giant ones, you'll need some kind of monitor arm for them though, review of the display here
http://www.pcmag.com/review/346074/dell-43-ultra-hd-4k-multi-client-monitor-p4317q

 

and I included a high end Dell professional monitor, it has built in firmware to split itself into 4 1080p displays for productivity, Mostly these use display port rather than a TV probably uses being HDMI 2.0, should make life easier

Case was just picked just because, If you want the best of the best in terms of cases check out a Caselabs case, fully customizable and made of aluminum
http://www.caselabs-store.com/

Here is their giant cabinet that will support pretty much everything and anything $659
http://www.caselabs-store.com/magnum-sth10/

now there is like even more high end parts, but I tried to keep it a little reasonable, because that's just what I do, everything should be 100% though

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/XddbLD
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/XddbLD/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-6900K 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($1064.36 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master MasterAir Maker 8 66.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($117.54 @ B&H)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 WS-E/10G EATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($605.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 Series 128GB (8 x 16GB) DDR4-2800 Memory  ($649.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($315.62 @ B&H)
Storage: Samsung 850 Pro Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($418.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 Pro Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($418.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Hitachi Deskstar NAS 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($157.39 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Hitachi Deskstar NAS 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($157.39 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Hitachi Deskstar NAS 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($157.39 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Hitachi Deskstar NAS 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($157.39 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: AMD FirePro W9100 32GB Video Card  ($3599.00 @ Newegg)
Case: Inwin 909 SILVER ATX Full Tower Case  ($399.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA T2 1600W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($382.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Monitor: Dell P4317Q 42.5" 60Hz Monitor  ($1199.99 @ Amazon)
Monitor: Dell P4317Q 42.5" 60Hz Monitor  ($1199.99 @ Amazon)
Monitor: Dell P4317Q 42.5" 60Hz Monitor  ($1199.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $12202.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-09 22:27 EDT-0400


and check out these triple 40" 4k monitor set ups
 

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