Workstation

[Bear Forseti]

I'll just say HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Money matters not. I don't care if this is a $3000 machine, it MUST work.

 

This computer is ment to be a heavy duty workstation. Extensive work in excel (work that would crash your average dell prebuilt), powerpoint, word. Making videos, scanning 20++ (20-50 pages is not out of the question, I am talking about if I want to scan a whole book non stop I can. I want it to be all in one document, not in multiple documents, one giant pdf, one giant document.) pages at once.

 

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The recommended build is the following, this guy builds proffesionally.

Intel Core i-7 4770 processor

16GB DDR3 Memory 

120GB SSD Drive

DVD+/- R/RW Drive

AMD 2 GB BDDR5 Video Card Media Reader

Windows 8 64-Bit*

 

Scanner we are looking at a Brother MFC-J47100w

 

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I know we need a powerful processor so I agree with the i7 4770, whether its a k or not matters not.

16GB RAM 1600 or so

120GB SD ram for operating system, can manually instal on the normal harddrive.

Atleast 2x 4 TB HHD

DVD blueray player

800 watts should easily deal with this build.

Motherboard with a usb 3 for sure.

Case that breaths well, I think 120mm fans, maybe a watercooler. Quieter.

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From what I am told, I will need a dedicated GPU to handle the heavy scanning. Radeon 7870 maybe??????

[tristan1035]

Whe I hear of Excel and PowerPoint the first thought is not "can I run it without crashing", but maybe I know nothing. Otherwise if you're truly going for workstation LGA 2011 comes to mind, with some velociraptor scratch disks, a nice 7970, and a Cosmos 2; but in reality the case is completely up to you (we don't know what you like).

[WoodenMarker]

You don't need that powerful of a cpu to scan large images...

Just get a ssd and a decent modern cpu--I'm thinking an i3 would be plenty. 

Edit: If you're doing really stupid heavy calculations, it would be good to invest in an oc'ed 4930k. At that point, you might just want to invest in more efficient formulas.

 

What kind of videos are being worked on? Programs being used?

Fyi @Bear Forseti you need to quote a post or tag a member or else they won't get a notification you replied to them.

[WoodenMarker]

Whe I hear of Excel and PowerPoint the first thought is not "can I run it without crashing", but maybe I know nothing. Otherwise if you're truly going for workstation LGA 2011 comes to mind, with some velociraptor scratch disks, a nice 7970, and a Cosmos 2; but in reality the case is completely up to you (we don't know what you like).

A Cosmos 2...? What?

[tristan1035]

A Cosmos 2...? What?

It's a nice cas and I was just using it as a example of a big "workstation" like case.

[WoodenMarker]

It's a nice cas and I was just using it as a example of a big "workstation" like case.

It's called "You're spending hundreds on looks"

Workstations aren't optimized for looks.

[tristan1035]

It's called "You're spending hundreds on looks"

Workstations aren't optimized for looks.

He said he didn't care about the money; at least I didn't recommend Case Labs.

[JoshM]

What you do doesn't sound heavy at all, could prob build a $600 pc and could do it lol

[Bear Forseti]

You don't need that powerful of a cpu to scan large images...

Just get a ssd and a decent modern cpu--I'm thinking an i3 would be plenty. 

Edit: If you're doing really stupid heavy calculations, it would be good to invest in an oc'ed 4930k. At that point, you might just want to invest in more efficient formulas.

 

What kind of videos are being worked on? Programs being used?

Fyi @Bear Forseti you need to quote a post or tag a member or else they won't get a notification you replied to them.

 

That is an awesome question, I honestly do not know. I am going back to school for my masters and we are required to make videos of us doing certain exercises and procedures.

I am scanning pictures and documents. I work with scanning in magazines, some articles are 80 pages long of medical documents.

 

To others, I commonly crash I5 processors at work running around 3 ghz and 8GB ram so your standard $600 computer is going to implode! They are run remotely loading off a server which I know takes some load. When you start running programs in programs they are not happy. For instance run word inside of excel inside of powerpoint. When you do presentations using powerpoint and you have information in other forms in other areas, I link it in directly accessing that item within powerpoint.

 

I am not doing crazy number crunching, nothing a standard I5 can't handle but I use CPUID HWMonitor. I do know I push a friends 4770k overclocked to 4.5ghz to 20% constant, I can push it up further as I work. I do know my biggest killer is my ram which is probably what is holding me back on smaller computers the most. It is watercooled and I can push it up to 50-60 degrees celsius and make his fans kick in to full capacity. His case is otherwise optimized for airflow to go with the watercooler.

I don't know much about computers so please speak up and give opinions, that is just what I know from the work I do now..

[WoodenMarker]

To others, I commonly crash I5 processors at work running around 3 ghz and 8GB ram so your standard $600 computer is going to implode! They are run remotely loading off a server which I know takes some load. When you start running programs in programs they are not happy. For instance run word inside of excel inside of powerpoint. When you do presentations using powerpoint and you have information in other forms in other areas, I link it in directly accessing that item within powerpoint.

 

I am not doing crazy number crunching, nothing a standard I5 can't handle but I use CPUID HWMonitor. I do know I push a friends 4770k overclocked to 4.5ghz to 20% constant, I can push it up further as I work. I do know my biggest killer is my ram which is probably what is holding me back on smaller computers the most. It is watercooled and I can push it up to 50-60 degrees celsius and make his fans kick in to full capacity. His case is otherwise optimized for airflow to go with the watercooler.

I don't know much about computers so please speak up and give opinions, that is just what I know from the work I do now..

More info on what makes the systems crash? Specs as well?

20% isn't much..

[Giggitygoebbels]

I'll just say HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Money matters not. I don't care if this is a $3000 machine, it MUST work.

 

This computer is ment to be a heavy duty workstation. Extensive work in excel (work that would crash your average dell prebuilt), powerpoint, word. Making videos, scanning 20++ (20-50 pages is not out of the question, I am talking about if I want to scan a whole book non stop I can. I want it to be all in one document, not in multiple documents, one giant pdf, one giant document.) pages at once.

 

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The recommended build is the following, this guy builds proffesionally.

Intel Core i-7 4770 processor

16GB DDR3 Memory 

120GB SSD Drive

DVD+/- R/RW Drive

AMD 2 GB BDDR5 Video Card Media Reader

Windows 8 64-Bit*

 

Scanner we are looking at a Brother MFC-J47100w

 

_________________

I know we need a powerful processor so I agree with the i7 4770, whether its a k or not matters not.

16GB RAM 1600 or so

120GB SD ram for operating system, can manually instal on the normal harddrive.

Atleast 2x 4 TB HHD

DVD blueray player

800 watts should easily deal with this build.

Motherboard with a usb 3 for sure.

Case that breaths well, I think 120mm fans, maybe a watercooler. Quieter.

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From what I am told, I will need a dedicated GPU to handle the heavy scanning. Radeon 7870 maybe??????

Never talk about motherboard...

Even a ECS H81 mobo (which is crap) can run that setup(USB3 as well),so be careful.

[ViruZ_HUN]

seems like you rushing and need it quick ok.

 

 

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[Bear Forseti]

More info on what makes the systems crash? Specs as well?

20% isn't much..

On the computers at work it usually gives me a ram failure that I was just working it to hard. Not that the ram itself is bad. Just funny when it has 6GB free from idle and I crash it.

I have never been able to crash my friends computer the few times I used it.  I mainly have a pet peve about slow computers, I want it and I want my programs running now.

 

What would you say as a requirement for the scanning? Do I need a GPU? How big of a GPU, what requirements is it that I need? Do we know we need GPU or is it all in the scanner?

How about for video editing, making videos ect?

[WoodenMarker]

On the computers at work it usually gives me a ram failure that I was just working it to hard. Not that the ram itself is bad. Just funny when it has 6GB free from idle and I crash it.

I have never been able to crash my friends computer the few times I used it.  I mainly have a pet peve about slow computers, I want it and I want my programs running now.

What would you say as a requirement for the scanning? Do I need a GPU? How big of a GPU, what requirements is it that I need? Do we know we need GPU or is it all in the scanner?

How about for video editing, making videos ect?

"Working it too hard" isn't specific enough. What goes on when it crashes?

I don't think you need a dedicated gpu for the scanning. It should just be the scanner.

A dedicated gpu can help with acceleration and rendering depending on what programs you're using.