Dear all,
Looking for some advice on building some workstations for my company's graphic design department. We are currently using Mac Pro's (silver towers with a few black cylinder models) but with the new cylinder design models costing us about $3500, I wanted to know what alternative options we might have. All of our current computers have 2 monitors (22-24" 1920x1080), SSD bootable, Wacom tablets, 16 GB of ram. In addition to an all custom built system, I am also looking to HP workstations, mainly the z640 and z840.
Our design teams is currently using the Adobe CS6 suite, they mainly use Photoshop, Illustrator and a custom web app (not related to CS6 but all 3 will be running at the same time). Some of our designers have started using Cinema 4D as well (not for animation, for image rendering) and when we eventually switch to CC (sometime in the next year, more then 6months away), I anticipate that we will start using After Effects more.
I also but together a list from before but again, want to get advice before proceeding.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NbPY23
Thank you all in advance!!!
Looking for some advice on building some workstations for my company's graphic design department. We are currently using Mac Pro's (silver towers with a few black cylinder models) but with the new cylinder design models costing us about $3500, I wanted to know what alternative options we might have. All of our current computers have 2 monitors (22-24" 1920x1080), SSD bootable, Wacom tablets, 16 GB of ram. In addition to an all custom built system, I am also looking to HP workstations, mainly the z640 and z840.
Our design teams is currently using the Adobe CS6 suite, they mainly use Photoshop, Illustrator and a custom web app (not related to CS6 but all 3 will be running at the same time). Some of our designers have started using Cinema 4D as well (not for animation, for image rendering) and when we eventually switch to CC (sometime in the next year, more then 6months away), I anticipate that we will start using After Effects more.
Budget: $2000-$3000
Location: USA (NY/NJ)
Use: Workstation - For graphic designers at my company. Not for gaming
Over Clocking: No
Monitors: 2 @ 1920x1080
SLI: maybe
Peripherals: N/A - we have monitors already, will buy keyboards/mouse separate if needed.
Operating System not required: Doesn't need to be in the budget, we will most likely use windows 8.1
Also need advice on graphic card: Quadro vs GTX. I want to stick with Nvidia. I will most likely get 1 of both to test but still want advice on which ones to get.
I also but together a list from before but again, want to get advice before proceeding.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NbPY23
Thank you all in advance!!!