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Upgrade Ivy-Bridge on X79 motherboard. Budget 1000€. NO Gaming

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gioffa

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Hi guys!

I've a friends who asked me to help upgrading his rig.

This is his actual setup:
Gigabyte GA-X79 UP4
i7 4930K (stock speed)
Quadro K2000
32GB DDR3 RAM
Two 128GB SSD in raid-0
850W PSU (still don't know the brand, need to check)

State:
Apparently the nvidia quadro is dead.
Several issues with the raid-0

Usage
He is primarily using Premier Pro and The Foundry Nuke.
Needs CUDA cores and really high I/O (OpenEXR image sequences)
Budget roughly 1000€

My suggestions:
1) Ditch the Quadro card and the raid 0 configuration.
2) Buy gtx 980ti.
3) Drives Configuration: Single SSD for OS and Application. Buy PCI-E AHCI SSD like Samsung SM951 to temporary working projects (motherboard do not support NVME) and caching (specially for Nuke).
4) Overclock could be an option but i have to check his cooler. Some guide to overclock 4930K on that motherboard?

Your suggestion?

Thanks!
 
The Quadro K2000 was only launched in 2013, and the standard Quadro warranty is 3 years. I'd suggest first checking to see if it's still covered under warranty, as that may save you an unnecessary video card purchase. However if he does need another video card, I'd just as well suggest another Quadro, as this is pretty much the reason Quadros exist.

Otherwise your SSD plan is solid. Even an AHCI PCIe drive is going to be able to push a ton of data. Though another option would be to buy a small SATA SSD to serve as a boot drive, and an NVMe PCIe SSD to actually run everything off of. Long story short, you can install the Windows bootloader on the SATA SSD, and then it can hand off to the NVMe drive.
 
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ViRGE said:
The Quadro K2000 was only launched in 2013, and the standard Quadro warranty is 3 years. I'd suggest first checking to see if it's still covered under warranty, as that may save you an unnecessary video card purchase. However if he does need another video card, I'd just as well suggest another Quadro, as this is pretty much the reason Quadros exist.

Otherwise your SSD plan is solid. Even an AHCI PCIe drive is going to be able to push a ton of data. Though another option would be to buy a small SATA SSD to serve as a boot drive, and an NVMe PCIe SSD to actually run everything off of. Long story short, you can install the Windows bootloader on the SATA SSD, and then it can hand off to the NVMe drive.
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Hi! Thanks for you reply
The card was actually bought in 2014, so I think we could have a replacement for that along with the gtx980ti which he still want to purchase.

For the SSD setup I ended up getting a small 128GB sata SSD for OS. Another small 128GB SSD for software (he already own these two SSD). And a 950 Pro 512GB pice SSD to store in-working projects and Nike cache.

X79 motherboard do not support boot on that drive (which I don't care) but Windows 7 has driver for NVME drives.
 
Insert_Nickname said:
Have you looked at the Kingston HyperX Predator PCIe? Because it has an onboard OROM it's the quickest and easiest way to get a PCIe boot drive on non-NVMe boards.

Performance is pretty much in between the XP941 and SM951.
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Looks interesting thanks!
I'm actually more interested in keeping the OS separate on a sata drive. This guy is the type which needs to do a clean install of window couple of times every 4-6 month. I don't want him to call me said he lost the work. Ihih.

We are getting the k2000 through the PNY RMA. I hope it will be painless.
 
It looks like you have the SSD issue covered, otherwise I would have suggested like a Samsung 850 Pro to boot and a Mushkin Reactor 1TB for working drive.

The 4930K can be overclocked by simply turning up the CPU multiplier (and maybe adding a little voltage to ensure stability). However, it sounds like this is a work computer - I seriously wouldn't recommend overclocking a work computer, chances of data corruption goes up sharply with overclocking.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52582412

Looks like the K2000 is about equal to a GTX 650. Upgrading to a 980/Ti (or better, waiting for the next gen cards due in like the next month or two) could net a huge improvement in performance if the software takes advantage of more CUDA cores.
 
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Fast acces to OS and software is not n.1 priority. The real bottlenack with Nuke especially is file access. We work daily basis with 16bit float OpenEXR files, that can be as big as 50-80mb per frame depending on resolution and how many layers (CG passes) it contains. Is amazing how just 5-6 years ago to pull 1GB/S of data we needed crazy expensive raid set, now with 200€ you can pull 2,5GB out of an 950pro and playback realtime EXR files.

Premiere take lots of advantage of cuda, unfortunately Nike has just very few Nodes which are Gpu accelerated and even in that case my person k5200 doesn't go above 20% usage. It still rely mostly on single core high clock speed. There are even some particular nodes that just get processed on a single thread.

Good to overclocking and a potential relation with data corruption. Thanks!
 
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