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Byron K wrote on 9/9/2014, 3:30 AM
Price seems reasonable.
The new Z440 (estimated U.S. pricing starting at $1,299), Z640 ($1,759), and Z840 ($2,399)

Like you said, can Vegas utilize all the cores to actually produce smooth playback. Maybe the R/D dept at SCS can spare a couple of grand and test?
VMP wrote on 9/9/2014, 3:41 AM
Indeed Byron. I am curious to know too.

Ah didn't read the price part, indeed that sounds reasonable.

VMP
farss wrote on 9/9/2014, 4:14 AM
I doubt it'd do much for playback unless you were using a fast SAN for storage and that's what'll break the bank.

Bob.
VMP wrote on 9/9/2014, 4:25 AM
Bob, are you referring to Storage Area Network?
Why not use directly connected (fast) drives instead?


VMP
farss wrote on 9/9/2014, 3:03 PM
[I]"Bob, are you referring to Storage Area Network?"[/I]

Yes.

[I]"Why not use directly connected (fast) drives instead?"[/I]

Assuming you could fit enough Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives and their controller inside the chassis and only one workstation would need access to them no reason not to. That's still quite expensive. The SAS v3 interface now supports 12Gbps. The fastest SAS drives are 2.5" and don't hold much data so you need a lot of them to store the terra bytes of data the high end 4K cameras create.

Bob.

wilvan wrote on 9/10/2014, 11:17 AM
Can only confirm my present HP Z820's , working like a charm and editing being a pleasure. Vegas restricts the amount of cores in preferences and internal prefs amount of cores gets reset to default ( think only 16 cores ) after restart of vegas . Have already asked many times SCS why they restrict that number of cores and RAM in prefs , as if there are no customers with real workstations using their software. No answers , of course . But it helps getting things go way faster , as adobe after effects being very happy when seeing AND USING lots of cores and RAM . And those HPZ 820-840 systems are really good ( also adviced by Avid , Adobe ) , have the 820's a few years now .

Sony  PXW-FS7K and 2 x Sony PXW-Z280  ( optimised as per Doug Jensen Master Classes and Alister Chapman advices ) Sony A7 IV
2 x HP Z840 workstations , each as follows : WIN10 pro x 64 , 2 x 10 core Xeon E5-2687W V3 at 3.5 GHz , 256 GB reg ECC RAM , HP nvidia quadro RTX A5000 ( 24GB ), 3 x samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 x4  , 3 x SSD 1TB samsung 860 pro , 3 x 3TB WD3003FZEX.
SONY Vegas Pro 13 build 453  ( user since version 4 ) , SONY DVDarch , SONY SoundForge(s) , SONY Acid Pro(s) , SONY Cinescore ( each year buying upgrades for all of them since vegas pro 4 )
(MAGIX) Vegas pro 14 ( bought it as a kind of support but never installed it )
SONY CATALYST browse 
Adobe Photoshop  CC 2023
Adobe After Effects CC 2023 & Adobe Media Encoder CC 2023
Avid Media Composer 2022.xx ( started with the FREE Avid Media Composer First in 2019 )
Dedicated solely editing systems , fully optimized , windows 10 pro x 64 
( win10 pro operating systems , all most silly garbage and kid's stuff of microsoft entirely removed , never update win 10 unless required for editing purposes or ( maybe ) after a while when updates have proven to be reliable and no needless microsoft kid's stuff is added in the updates )

Lovelight wrote on 9/10/2014, 2:19 PM
Wow, how upsetting that scs doesn't even respond. Adobe is much better.
PixelStuff wrote on 9/13/2014, 12:45 PM
Based on this article, I don't think you are going to get the 36 core model for a couple thousand dollars. The 16 core Xeon E5-2698v3 itself is over $3,000 just for a single chip.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8423/intel-xeon-e5-version-3-up-to-18-haswell-ep-cores-/


Also, if you are looking for high end computers check out the HD-Juggernaut from these guys:
www.adkvideoediting.com or www.adkproaudio.com


JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/13/2014, 1:21 PM
> "Like you said, can Vegas utilize all the cores to actually produce smooth playback"

Yea, that is the million dollar question. When I'm watching the timeline stutter and my CPU's are at 30% and my GPU is at 25% I have to ask myself... why would I buy more hardware when Vegas doesn't seem to be able to use the hardware I already have? Nothing is maxed out... where is the bottleneck?

36 cores sounds great.... if you have 36 things to do at the same time. ;-)

~jr