Workstation Spec, advice appreciated.

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Mainly realtime ray tracing and rendering work. UE5, Houdini, Zbrush , Substance Designer. That kind of thing. Needs to do some heavy processing for VFX too. £7k ish budget
 
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EzUsr said:
Mainly realtime ray tracing and rendering work. UE5, Houdini, Zbrush , Substance Designer. That kind of thing. Needs to do some heavy processing for VFX too. £7k ish budget
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Is the second monitor for motion graphics so still need colour accuracy? Do you have a max budget for the monitor?
 
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For the second monitor it would be good to get something that does have excellent colour accuracy but not essential. It's more about the 4k res and refresh rate. Something that can handle 120fps .
 
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also on the workstation spec the memory seemed pretty slow or at least seemingly , could be faster , any tips on that?
 
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On the spec I would probably go for a couple of changes:

RAM - The chipset is quad channel so you will get a benefit from 4 slots filled rather than 2. I would either opt for 4x16GB or 4X32GB depending on budget.
Storage - 4TB primary drive gives me the fear, makes me think you're going to run the OS and all manner of tasks from the same drive at the same time. Far better to have a trim & fast primary drive that's only for the OS and frequent programs. You then have another fast M2 drive for fast storage/cache and keep the 8TB QVO for good storage.
PSU - You'll want the 1200W shift in this build, minimum IMO. If you're ever considering dual GPUs then I would actually bump that up to the 1500w HXi.
Sound Card - Do you have a specific need for this? The on-board audio is good and I doubt the card would offer anything more. Typically used for interfaces but a USB interface with proper hardware would be better if there's an audio need.
Network - You've added a 2.5GBps network card with 1 RJ45 connection. Do you need this in addition to the 10GB connection and 2.5 gb connection on the motherboard? Seems a strange addition.
Warranty - I think a build like this should have at least the silver warranty for £5. In fact I think every build should have it.
 
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Scott said:
On the spec I would probably go for a couple of changes:

RAM - The chipset is quad channel so you will get a benefit from 4 slots filled rather than 2. I would either opt for 4x16GB or 4X32GB depending on budget.
Storage - 4TB primary drive gives me the fear, makes me think you're going to run the OS and all manner of tasks from the same drive at the same time. Far better to have a trim & fast primary drive that's only for the OS and frequent programs. You then have another fast M2 drive for fast storage/cache and keep the 8TB QVO for good storage.
PSU - You'll want the 1200W shift in this build, minimum IMO. If you're ever considering dual GPUs then I would actually bump that up to the 1500w HXi.
Sound Card - Do you have a specific need for this? The on-board audio is good and I doubt the card would offer anything more. Typically used for interfaces but a USB interface with proper hardware would be better if there's an audio need.
Network - You've added a 2.5GBps network card with 1 RJ45 connection. Do you need this in addition to the 10GB connection and 2.5 gb connection on the motherboard? Seems a strange addition.
Warranty - I think a build like this should have at least the silver warranty for £5. In fact I think every build should have it.
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Thanks so much for the heads up. Will have a play with re-configuring.
 
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Maybe something around the £500 mark im thinking more flat panel than curved. Really appreciate recommendations.
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I don't think you'll find a proper colour accurate monitor at that price at 120Hz, would be quite substantially more.

You could just about get an entry level gaming monitor at that price, but colours would be heavily saturated vs a professional monitor.
 
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I'm not sure there are properly colour accurate/professional level monitors that can do 120Hz, certainly not at a reasonable price. They're just different markets. You have the Asus PA32UCG-K, but that's £2700...
 
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Surely colour accuracy and frame rate are 2 completely different scales though? It makes sense that getting both would be exorbitant as the market would be so small.
 
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Scott said:
Surely colour accuracy and frame rate are 2 completely different scales though? It makes sense that getting both would be exorbitant as the market would be so small.
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There are very few.

This is about the best value I can find, it’s 5k horizontal and 4k vertical, but it’s £1600

Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt™ Hub Monitor - U4025QW | Dell UK

Shop the UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt Hub Monitor - U4025QW featuring a stunning 5K display with a 120Hz refresh rate.
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