Question Enterprise Workstation for Video Editing/Homelab ?

[Onsali]

I am stuck deciding between a Dell Precision T7820 with Dual Xeon Gold 6140 processors, or a
Dell Precision T5820 with a single Xeon W-2135 (That's the cheapest coming in at ~40$ with 2145, and 2155 which were 100, and 180$ respectively)

The rest of the config for my system are as follows:
Intel A770 16gb
64GB (2x32)DDR4 ECC 2600Mhz Ram
1TB NVMe SSD
3TB SATA HDD

The T7820 with Dual processors comes in at around 930 USD shipped after tax while the latter T5820 comes to around 700 USD.

The Cinebench scores I have seen for the T7820 were above 25,000 while the seller showed a score of 1,700 for the Xeon W-2135. Seems like a significant increase in performance, although I am not familiar with the metric. Is the 230$ difference for the T7820 worth it in your eyes?

My use cases for now will be editing 4k footage, 3D Modelling/Rendering, Footage Archival, and I am planning on setting up a Homelab, Llama, NAS as well on it when I expand drives in the future. Any and all help would be much appreciated

 

[kanewolf]

I am stuck deciding between a Dell Precision T7820 with Dual Xeon Gold 6140 processors, or a
Dell Precision T5820 with a single Xeon W-2135 (That's the cheapest coming in at ~40$ with 2145, and 2155 which were 100, and 180$ respectively)

The rest of the config for my system are as follows:
Intel A770 16gb
64GB (2x32)DDR4 ECC 2600Mhz Ram
1TB NVMe SSD
3TB SATA HDD

The T7820 with Dual processors comes in at around 930 USD shipped after tax while the latter T5820 comes to around 700 USD.

The Cinebench scores I have seen for the T7820 were above 25,000 while the seller showed a score of 1,700 for the Xeon W-2135. Seems like a significant increase in performance, although I am not familiar with the metric. Is the 230$ difference for the T7820 worth it in your eyes?

My use cases for now will be editing 4k footage, 3D Modelling/Rendering, Footage Archival, and I am planning on setting up a Homelab, Llama, NAS as well on it when I expand drives in the future. Any and all help would be much appreciated

Neither of those hosts is a good choice for a NAS. You want a low power device for a NAS so that you don't have expenses for a 24x7 usage device. A single low power laptop CPU or low power Celeron.

 

[Onsali]

Neither of those hosts is a good choice for a NAS. You want a low power device for a NAS so that you don't have expenses for a 24x7 usage device. A single low power laptop CPU or low power Celeron.

I forgot to add that I am not paying for power where I live, that's what made me consider these systems in the first place!

 

[BrickStation]

The Xeon W-2135 is equipped in my Lenovo ThinkStation P520, which was designed for machine learning, 3D modeling, rendering models and videos. Given that it's built with server hardware, it likely has also been utilized as a server in some applications.

The W-2135 is capable of handling these tasks, I mostly use it for games and occasionally I render videos ranging from 1080p to 4K. It might be a little underpowered for your application, however. The 2135 is only a 6-core processor and a single 6140 has almost double the performance.

Both PCs are a little expensive considering they have processors released in 2017. If the T7820 had a significantly more powerful CPU than the W-2135 I would probably purchase that instead, but I would recommend using the dual Xeon machine in this case since you don't pay for electric.

 

[Onsali]

The Xeon W-2135 is equipped in my Lenovo ThinkStation P520, which was designed for machine learning, 3D modeling, rendering models and videos. Given that it's built with server hardware, it likely has also been utilized as a server in some applications.

The W-2135 is capable of handling these tasks, I mostly use it for games and occasionally I render videos ranging from 1080p to 4K. It might be a little underpowered for your application, however. The 2135 is only a 6-core processor and a single 6140 has almost double the performance.

Both PCs are a little expensive considering they have processors released in 2017. If the T7820 had a significantly more powerful CPU than the W-2135 I would probably purchase that instead, but I would recommend using the dual Xeon machine in this case since you don't pay for electric.

Thank you so much for the detailed response. I ended up going for T7820 with the following configuration:
2x Dual Xeon 6140
Arc A770 16GB GPU
128GB DDR4 ECC 2600Mhz
1TB Flexbay with M.2 SSD
3TB SATA HDD

Everything cost just shy of a grand. I honestly want to stop looking now I spent 3 days researching haha

 

[Winterson]

The form factor of the "enterprise" type workstations restrict one to use a Nvidia Quadro at 4-6 times the price as a full size PCIe card with a RTX 40xx GPU and enough RAM for video editing (16GB or more).

The "gaming" computers have a PSU and connectors for high end and power hungry graphics cards. A drawback with all expect the Lenovo Legion 7 is that they have smaller motherboards and do not have any extra PCIe slots with the 3 taken up with the GPU board. Even the Lenovo has only 2 slots available with its 7 series.

At this time the top tier PC makers were still use generation 13 Intel processors. They also are yet to provide USB 4 ports and this is something that cannot be retrofitted later with an incompatible motherboard. Asus is the only motherboard manufacture that is providing support for USB 4.