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Super_Saffer

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Proposed Photoscan Build
« on: May 06, 2015, 11:24:22 PM »
My university department wants to spend about $3000 on a workstation for Photoscan.  We plan to process UAV images.  Attached is my proposed build. Comments? Suggestions?

Motherboard is out of stock, but would be Supermicro X9DRD-EF Server Motherboard - Intel C602-J Chipset - Socket R LGA-201

Total of $2951
« Last Edit: May 06, 2015, 11:42:40 PM by Super_Saffer »

tutoss

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Re: Proposed Photoscan Build
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2015, 08:11:47 AM »
hi super_saffer,

gpu backplate: not necesary
liquid cooling: not necesary
CPU: search a high cpu clock and more cores, like a i7 4930k
RAM: ddr3 is cheaper (64gb ddr3=$500 vs 64gb ddr4=$700) , so use a ddr3 platform and you can spend more in the cpu

dtmcnamara

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Re: Proposed Photoscan Build
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2015, 04:33:32 PM »
If it were me this is what I would do:

Monitor - LG 22M34D-B

Keyboard - Logitech MK120

Case - Corsair Air 540
I personally have this case and love it, good choice.

Motherboard - ASUS X99-E WS
Can be upgraded to 4 GPU later down the road if you guys ever need to.

CPU - Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3
You will thank me for this CPU choice over the 1603. Clock speed on the 1603 2.8, the 1650 is 3.5. Spending more money here and only going with 1 GPU will save you a lot more render time than having two GTX 970 video cards

RAM - Crucial 16GB DDR4-2133 ECC
CT16G4RFD4213
See RAM comment below

CPU Cooler - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
This CPU cooler is amazing for the price. I use it as my default for all builds.

Spinning HDD - HGST Deskstar 3TB
H3IKNAS30003272SN
I just prefer HGST and have never had a problem with these at all.

GPU - EVGA GTX 970
04G-P4-3975-KR

PSU - EVGA 1200W P2
220-P2-1200-X1
10yr warranty and platinum rating, enough said. Will support 3-4 GPU depending on their power requirements.

My recommendations above put you right at $2988.39 and give you a LOT of room to upgrade down the road.

The above comment about DDR4 is correct, it is a little more expensive right now, but the prices on DDR4 are dropping almost weekly since it is becoming the mainstream RAM. Pay a little extra now, but when you want to go from 64-128GB later it will be much cheaper than DDR3.

« Last Edit: May 07, 2015, 04:41:17 PM by dtmcnamara »

Super_Saffer

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Re: Proposed Photoscan Build
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2015, 02:56:54 AM »
That mobo only supports 64Gigs or RAM though :/  I would like the ability to upgrade to at least 256 later. We will handle pretty large data sets later...

dtmcnamara

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Re: Proposed Photoscan Build
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2015, 09:41:58 PM »
That mobo only supports 64Gigs or RAM though :/  I would like the ability to upgrade to at least 256 later. We will handle pretty large data sets later...

The ASUS board supports 128GB
http://www.asus.com/us/Commercial_Servers_Workstations/X99E_WS/specifications/

The supermicro board will upgrade to 256GB but remember that the E5-1xxx series CPUs do not supprot dual CPU configurations so you will only be able to use 8 of the 16 slots on the board. That means you will limited to purchasing 32GB sticks of DDR3 at close to $500/stick. Also that 1603 CPU does not support hyperthreading, just a FYI

http://ark.intel.com/products/64600/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-1603-10M-Cache-2_80-GHz-0_0-GTs-Intel-QPI

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Re: Proposed Photoscan Build
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2015, 04:57:35 AM »
Weird, newegg lists the board as 64GB...but the Asus page says 128GB.  I should have looked at the Asus page!

Thanks for the build to consider  8)