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Davis

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New workstation specifications
« on: April 15, 2015, 10:09:34 AM »
Hello,

I use PS and Rhino for documentation of historical building and archeology.
an average project has 1000-1500  photos, 20-36mp.
Its time to buy a new Xeon workstation for maximum proformanc.

the new system spec:

1. HP Z840 workstation
2. Xeon E5-2643v3 3.4 2133 6C
3. 192GB DDR4-21332CPU RegRAM
4. Taitan X
5. HP Z Turbo Drive 512GB PCIe 1st SSD

the cost of the system in our place is about 10,500$
I have read many posts in the forum, but I still have some doubts:

1. is upgrading to Xeon 2687W worth the extra cost?
2. is the PCI-E ssd drive worth the extra cost, or a fast ssd is OK?
3. is Taitan X the best choice?
5. is win 7 pro the best OS for PS

Thanks for the response,

dtmcnamara

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Re: New workstation specifications
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2015, 07:12:51 PM »
Which Titan-X version? I was about to upgrade to the new 12GB 2015 model and found out that the FP64 performance of the new cards is horrible compared to the older X model and Z units. Really just depends on if your software will take full advantage of the double precision workloads or not.

If you were just going to use the card for Agisoft the new Titan X card is showing great results, especially when it only uses 250w of power.


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Re: New workstation specifications
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2015, 08:20:42 PM »
1. Unless you already bought the 2643v3 and/or the motherboard it's probably worth it, I use two of the V2 2687Ws (which are just as good IMHO as the V3s and you can pick them up used) and it's not slow.
2. PCIE is faster. but the difference is probably not worth the cost, it's much cheaper and basically as fast to run 2 regular ssds in RAID0.
3. I'll defer to dtmcnamara.
4. (or 5.) I've used Win7/Win8/Win10 and it's fast and stable on all of them.

dtmcnamara

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Re: New workstation specifications
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2015, 08:44:37 PM »
1. Do what @driftertravel said....get a older v2 CPU and find a used faster unit for the same price as the v3.
2. Just run standard SSDs, the speed will be there with the PCI-E units, but the question is really, will you see any benifits from it....and the answer in more than likely no. I think you would see better performance putting more money into a faster CPU or more/faster RAM

driftertravel

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Re: New workstation specifications
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2015, 10:01:02 PM »
The one thing with the v2 2687s (though I'm running 2, so there's that) is that they're hot as F**K, I'm using 10 fans in the case and I use the computer to heat my office... especially when running Photoscan, so get some good cooling.

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Re: New workstation specifications
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2015, 10:23:42 PM »
The one thing with the v2 2687s (though I'm running 2, so there's that) is that they're hot as F**K, I'm using 10 fans in the case and I use the computer to heat my office... especially when running Photoscan, so get some good cooling.

So this is why my office is always unbearably hot... The other computers and four 30" displays probably don't help either.