HP Z Workstation VSr beefy I7 PC for Vegas 13

smhontz wrote on 4/15/2016, 12:27 PM
I'm looking to get a new PC for Vegas 13. I've been working with an I7-3610QM laptop (7463 passmark score) and need something a bit more powerful to edit a documentary I'm working on.

Looking to spend between $2,500 and $3,000; although I've built my own in the past, I don't have the time to do that now.

The HP Z workstation line comes highly recommended by Video Guys. B&H has a 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 Six-Core (passmark of 9978) with 32 GB Ram and a NVIDIA Quadro K2200 4GB for $2,663.

Also looking at a CyberPower PC unit with i7-5930K 6-Core Processor 3.5GHz (passmark of 13627) 32GB Ram and a 12GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X Graphics card from Costco for $2500.

I realize that both of these video cards are not ideal for Vegas but I've never used GPU acceleration with Vegas in my current setup because it never worked right. So, I don't care if I have to turn it off anyway, as long as I can drive multiple monitors and it's stable.

I'm more concerned in getting the performance increase from the CPU. If that's the case, should I go with the I7 box? Or I'm I better off with the HP box, as it seems to better engineered?

My goal is to have a stable and fast platform. And, I might want to add Premiere Pro into the mix at some point.

Thoughts?

Comments

dxdy wrote on 4/15/2016, 12:36 PM
I am on my 4th CyberpowerPC, and they build a good machine. Customer service has been good, too. You should look at the size of the power supply, just in case you want to add a better GPU in the future.

If you are not going to worry about the GPU, compare the number of cores and the clock rate. If the Xeon runs slower than the i7, that's sub-optimal.
OldSmoke wrote on 4/15/2016, 4:53 PM
I would rather build my own. The specs you get are not in favor of Vegas Pro especially the graphic card is not; read this
Also a faster CPU 6-8 core desktop CPU will help more then any 10-20 core Xeon; this all has been discussed many times in this forum.

Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
Hard drives: System Samsung 970Pro NVME, AV-Projects 1TB (4x Intel P7600 512GB VROC), 4x 2.5" Hotswap bays, 1x 3.5" Hotswap Bay, 1x LG BluRay Burner

PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

Byron K wrote on 4/16/2016, 5:01 AM
If I didn't build my own PCs I'd probably order an ORIGIN. These guys specialize in gaming and video editing high end PC.

Here's an unboxing of one of their machines.


https://www.originpc.com/workstation/desktops/genesis-pro/