I think I want to start a new workstation build.....hmmmmmm

[kojack]

I am thinking about going balls to the walls for a workstation system.  I want to base this system off the Asus (going against my better judgement) WS W690-Sage SE board as a starting point. Seeing as I have my dell maxed out inside and I am afraid to add anything more powerful because of PSU limitations, I am going to build a new beast for myself. 

 

Stay tuned for parts ideas!

[Custom90gt]

Hah what's your budget? Lots of different ranges when going with the WS W690... What is your workload like? May be worth investing in GPU vs CPU power...

 

The motherboard alone costs more than my Epyc motherboard/cpu/256GB of ram, lol.

[kojack]

Going to be pushing 6k timelines through it.  I want to just build the biggest beast I can build. Dual power supplies, BIG tower, A load of drives inside. I am ramping up work now. 

[Custom90gt]

I mean you can easily spend 20k on it without too much difficulty. I'm all for spending money for fun but I think you should come up with a good game plan.

 

You can play around with supermicro's config:

https://store.supermicro.com/us_en/supermicro-superworksation-full-tower-sys-551a-t.html?utm=smcpp&_gl=1*1e2viij*_ga*MTU5NDU4MTA0Ni4xNjcyMTEwOTAw*_ga_K1TNNPLV4M*MTY4NTEyNDk5NS4yNS4xLjE2ODUxMjUwNzEuNTIuMC4w

[kojack]

I know I can spend 20k, but for that 20k it will mop the floor with the mac pro for 70k Cdn.  I am going to put a build sheet together. I am first looking for a tower that takes dual PSUs, and will house multiple drives and video cards without issue. That's the first item and then move on from there.  Finding the cpu in Canada is another issue I will have to contend with.

[ryan]

you seem to be a buying frenzy, you should share pics of all this. what cpu were you thinking

[kojack]

On 5/28/2023 at 4:43 PM, ryan said:

you seem to be a buying frenzy, you should share pics of all this. what cpu were you thinking

I was thinking of the biggest xeon.  I am flip flopping, of course on just using the pro art z790 board again now. I want the beast, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE that fractal north case and that keeps drawing me in to have a modern wooden trimmed case on my workstation. We are building a new studio here on the property about 14x18 with all our creative gear in it. It will be a workspace for my family to create and enjoy together.  We are bringing elements of wood, metal and soft textures to the inside of the building to make it a relaxing enjoyable space. My wife and I are going to have matching workstations so, the North case is the logical choice. Her computer will not have as powerful internals as mine but it will basically look the same but hers will be the white model and mine will be the black. 

 

We will have a filming section with nice sofa and lighting to give a truly professional feel to our work, and when clients come into the studio they have a nice comfortable place to talk and relax as well. 

 

We will have our notebooks for working on the road when we go and work at our workstations when home.  It's been a long drawn-out process to get all our stuff up and running. But the finish line is about 3 months off. I have gotten my schedule at Bell changed to 6 on / 8 off in order to focus my time more on my family and our work moving forward. It's coming together but slowly. 

 

I will have pics of some stuff soon!

 

[ryan]

oh nice, sounds pricey.

 

I finally got my laptop back and will be making 100 plus music albums to generate passive income for a few years, I don't need a beastly laptop or desktop, I will however need storage and ram. looking at upgrading to 32gb ram and 3 tb ssd.

[kojack]

1 minute ago, ryan said:

oh nice, sounds pricey.

 

I finally got my laptop back and will be making 100 plus music albums to generate passive income for a few years, I don't need a beastly laptop or desktop, I will however need storage and ram. looking at upgrading to 32gb ram and 3 tb ssd.

That's it.  I worked my entire life from the time I was 16, and it's time to start spending time with my family.  We have the income right now to do it...Nice dig btw. 

[ryan]

? whats with the confused emoji?

 

but yeah better today then tomorrow. life ends eventually i guess the live every day like its your last applies

[kojack]

I was somewhat confused with your comment if it was legit or a dig at me...that's all.  If was the former, I appolgise!  Music production is fun and a great way to generate income. 

[Reciever]

The nice thing about workstations is their value drops off a cliff after a couple of years. 

 

Recently came into possession of a couple of 7810 precision workstations, each with 128GB of RAM and 20c/40t, making it a VM box for training purposes.

[kojack]

The wife is like myself now. She wants that fractal case in white.  ha ha.  Who am I to say no?