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So will the new Mac Pro coming next year beat this?

Thought you might want to see what you'll need for 8k video editing: HP's NEW Z-workstations

  • 28 cores 56 threads: 2 - Intel SkyLake SP CPU's
  • 1.5/3 TB RAM
  • 4 TB of PCIe NVMe blade SSD's
  • Room for 48 TB of disk storage (platter)
  • 3 GPU cards

Sweet rig if you've got the cash!

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What is the estimated cost?

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I have my doubts that Apple will manage to beat the Z8. Historically Apple has been afraid to build anything too crazy and I don't think that the Z8 will change their mind.

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OMG up to 3 TB of RAM?

They are not kidding

One thing is missing... MacOS :)

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I don't really find this impressive, simply because I could probably build this thing if I had the money and desire. All except for the 3TB of RAM. That's an amount only a very powerful server can capacitate or use.

Most people don't know the ease of doing it. Basically put it together, install Windows/Linux and your done.

4TB of NVMe is something even current LGA1151 can do. Couple of 2TB 960 pro's is all it'd take.

Many high end gaming LGA1151 have four PCI-E slots for quad SLI. This is quite common for LGA2011 and LGA2066.

If you have the dough you could put a couple of 28 core Xeon Platinum CPUs. I haven't seen many LGA3647 boards yet though. It only supports 1.5TB ram.

No matter what it would be cheaper to do that very rig (Z8) yourself. Not only that but you could customize it.

The boards must be something bigger than E-ATX for room for all that ram.

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@pccheese - Be careful George, you couldn't build this rig! The SkyLake SP chips & sockets are very different than a LGA1151 based system. There is no way you could get more than 32 GB of RAM into the best board you could find. Don't poo poo the SSD it's for the OS & Apps some cache and not much more. Everything else will be on disk.

This is a workstation not a gamer rig, very different beast!

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Well, you can but it's going to get very expensive very quickly. This isn't your gaming build that uses GeForce graphics and LGA1151 processor. It likely requires ECC memory as well.

LGA3647 installs the same way as the 1151 does, but it's much more risky to install because it has a lot more pins. It doesn't use the mounting system Threadripper uses, but it's big enough Intel probably should have done that. You also need a server style heatsink mount for cooling because of how wide these chips are.

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@danj @nick I've never built a rig designed for gaming. The most I've done for gaming is putting a dedicated GPU. Very recently the Pascal GeForce GTX series have nearly surpassed Nvidia's own workstation GPU's at a significantly better price. In many cases it makes as much sense to use GeForce instead of Quadro.

LGA1151 (The CPU's too) supports 64GB ram on two channels. A very low end board could support this.

I'm obviously not talking about an LGA1151 system. I could build this rig if I had the money and use to do it. I'm talking about a 48-core 96-thread system or less. What ever it would be it would be at least these Z workstation class.

My main point here is this isn't as good of a deal as if you DIY.

One last thing: The SSDs aren't impressive. In a video workstation you may need to load your entire barrage of scenes onto your SSDs, in addition to the applications and OS that's already on there. And 4TB of SSDs isn't very impressive.

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You need ISV certification for workstations, which is where Quadro and FirePro cards come in. GeForce and Quadro are not the same.

It's basically the same thing as a GeForce card, but nVidia uses highly binned dies for the Quadro cards. Same thing with AMD's FirePro cards.

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@pccheese - The point here was the CPU's processing. As for video editing you would have a RAID10 setup in the other drive bays and if you could afford it go from platters to SSD's. At an example our two video editing bays have a four bay external Thunderbolt2 RAID 0 drive set with four 4.0 Samsung 840 PRO drives.

As far as cost you get what you pay for! In a few years I could see someone building such a rig on their own. As the parts will be commodity. Today that just not the case.

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