A video editing workstation - need help with GPU

[SultanSJ]

Hello guys,

Im planning on buying a new HP z820 workstation and here are my parts and ill be using it for Video editing especially with adobe premiere and after effects CC

CPU: Dual intel e5-2620 v2 CPUs

RAM: 16 GB 1600

GPU: I picked the quadro k2000 but after reading online ppl are saying that choosing a geforce is better and if so ill be going for the gtx 770 4 gb ( plz do note that im saying this because ppl are saying that gpu does matter with encoding and rendering with adobe products )

Disks: 1 ssd 128 for os and apps and 1 tb 7200 rpm hdd and im planing to use an external raid enclosure for my media files since im going to be buying more than 1 workstation for my company

My main issues are:

1- I do feel that my system is some how unbalanced especially with the ram and k2000

2- I know that connecting the raid through an eSATA is my best sulotion but does it have enough speed especially for editing 4k footage?


Thank you!

 

[dish_moose]

Look here: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/system-requirements-premiere-pro.html#main_Adobe_Premiere_Pro_CS6_system_requirements.
and:
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CS6-GPU-Acceleration-162/
From what I get out of this any card above 2GB of RAM will work. For professional work Quadro is what you want.
-Bruce

 

[manofchalk]

1. Considering how much your spending on the rest of the hardware, upgrading to 32GB is reasonable to me. That would be the place I would expect bottlenecks to happen, especially if your working with something like After Effects.
Whether the Quadro or a GeForce card is better in your situation, TBH I'm not sure. The GeForce cards have better CUDA performance which I know the Adobe Suite can leverage, but whether the Quadro can accelerate some other part of the process I am unsure of.

2. eSATA is the same as SATA, just a different connector thats more suited to external usage (its a bit tougher, less likely to break). Whether it will provide adequate bandwidth depends on the nature of your RAID setup inside that enclosure and whether eveything is SATA 6Gb/s or not, but if your dealing with HDD's in there I think you will be fine.

 

[SultanSJ]

My main issue here is the system balanced? If not please give me a way to fix it, thanks

 

[dish_moose]

The 32G RAM will help with editing. Perhaps using a RAMdisk speed things up.
-Bruce