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Marian5C68
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October 5, 2020
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4K Adobe Premiere and After effects build - 2020

  • October 5, 2020
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Hi guys, 

 

Need some assistance from those who have more knowledge than me on Adobe Premiere and After effects. 

Please bear with me as i am quite at the beggining with Adobe (both premiere and after effects). I want to get a good base hardware for both Premiere and After Effects and i don't really have the base specs (beside adobe sys. requirements that are not that clear). 

So, in short i want to use Premiere and After effects in 4K mode. What hardware do i need ? 

My build is not made yet as i don't know what to choose these days. 

 

Base hardware will be Z840 from HP - but this supports only Xeon !?! 

What CPU should i add? Intel i7/i9 vs Xeon E5? I assume that 4-6 core would be a minimum. 

It is better to have dual CPU or single ?  - i read that latest adobe versions benefit from higher clocks than number of cores. 

RAM: 32Gigs minimum (this is clear)

Storage: 256GB SSD for OS + 1TB SSD for projects. Does it make sens to add HDDs as well? I can ask for Enterprise drives, no problem. 

Video: GTX1660 / RTX series or Quadro ? What would be futureproof? If so, what Quadro is proper for 4K? Or RTX ? 

 

Please note that i will take the hardware base from a single vendor like HP, Supermicro, Dell, etc. What i need is to know the values of the componentes (video, cpu, ram, storage) to generate the builds. 

 

I have made some research but i have not found a suitable answer for my case. 

 

Thank you! 

Regards, 
Marian

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    Marian5C68Author
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    October 5, 2020

    Well, thanks for the heads up!

     

    Ok, what would you recommend from the Xeon range ? How about the I range ? 

    I can get the unit from other vendors, like Supermicro or Dell, but i would need to know what would be the minimum CPU to be paired with RTX2060 (or RTX3060). 

     

    Thank you!

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    RjL190365
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    October 5, 2020

    And because of all the limitations that I stated above, what with the bottlenecks caused by the dual-CPU switching and the requisite registered ECC RAM, this effectively means that only the GeForce GTX 1660 Super or the non-Super RTX 2060 should be considered. But keep in mind that these Turing GPUs are being phased out of production since the new Ampere GPUs have just arrived on the scene, and that the range is expected to extend down to the RTX 3060 and the RTX 3050 series in the coming months. And those two lower-end RTX 30 series GPUs should be considered.

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    RjL190365
    Legend
    October 5, 2020

    I am sorry to state this, but the Z840 motherboard is limited to the Xeon E5-2820v3, E5-2630v3 and E5-2637v3 CPUs. And you need two identical CPUs in that same system in order to work properly. The two lower-numbered CPUs are normal, modestly-clocked CPUs with 6 or 8 cores per CPU. Oddly, the 2637 has higher clock speeds but only 4 cores per CPU.

     

    And registered ECC RAM must be used. Normal unbuffered non-ECC RAM will not work properly in that system.

     

    Also, keep in mind that the GPUs that HP offered for that system are now outdated, if not completely obsolete: The newest Quadro drivers that are compatible with those GPUs do not fully support those GPUs for CUDA. In fact, CUDA support in the 45x.xx series drivers is now either depreciated or disabled for those originally-included GPUs. So, you will need a newer GPU for that system. You will be effectively stuck with the gaming (consumer) GeForce GTX 16 or RTX 20 series for your GPU upgrade budget (assuming that you'll be using the Studio Drivers and not the Game Ready Drivers), since the least expensive Quadro RTX desktop GPU still costs a whopping $800, and that cheaper Quadros up to and including the Quadro P2200 still use the 2016-era Pascal architecture that has not aged well despite still being in mainstream support.

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