jithulead Posted December 20, 2015 Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 Hello, I am going to build a display PC for watchout 6. The same PC I wanted to use for content creations as well. So I am little doubtful about choosing a graphics card for watchout. I am looking for 4 display output. For content creation I require a high performance graphics card. My choices are AMD Firepro W8100 and nvidia Titan X, so please help me to choose right graphics card for my both applications. Thanks in advance. Watchout PC spec for 4 display output. Processor Intel i7-5960x Mother board Asus X99E-WS/usb3.1 Ram DDR4 64gb 2400Mhz G-skill Graphics Firepro W8100 or nvidia Titan X card OS windows 10 pro Chassie 4U rackmount Power Supply 1200W CPU Cooler Liquid cooled double radiator Disk Drive OS Samsung 850 PRO 120GB Disk Drive media 2 x Samsung 850 PRO 120GB RAID 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dataton Partner Walter Posted December 21, 2015 Dataton Partner Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 Hi there, gonna pass on advise on graphics card for now, but I suppose your media drive will be 240gb and not 120? Or are you using 2 60gb drives? One personal advise : I recently found out 240 is too small for 4K hap projects ;-). Might wanna go 2 x 240 if you expect such projects. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jithulead Posted December 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 Thanks Walter for your advise 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Dannert Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Hi Jithu, Re: "Graphics card" It's a bit of an apples vs pears comparisation, as I see it. - AMD FirePro W8100 is a professional graphics card - NVidia Titan X is a consumer gaming card If budget allows, the W8100 is the better choice in my view. Re: "Disk Drive media" I would look into the new NVMe-based M2-SSD's (Gen3/PCIe x4) like the Samsung 950 PRO http://www.anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-review-256gb-512gb On your selected MB (Asus X99E-WS/usb3.1), there is a slot for it. It's seriously fast, sequential read up to 2,500MB/s (512 GB), and not very expensive either. Also avoiding the hassle of dealing with RAID 0 setup... /jonas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jithulead Posted January 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Thanks Jonas! So for OS can i use normal 850 PRO series? If I am using 512 GB NVMe-based M2-SSD, can i use it for both OS and Media drive? Regards Jithu 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Dannert Posted January 4, 2016 Report Share Posted January 4, 2016 So for OS can i use normal 850 PRO series? Yes. If I am using 512 GB NVMe-based M2-SSD, can i use it for both OS and Media drive? No, I wouldn't do/recommend that. This is for MEDIA drive use, and where WATCHOUT is to be installed, normally. /jonas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cedricus Mann Posted January 4, 2016 Report Share Posted January 4, 2016 Follow-up question Re: Graphics card. Given the Firepro W8100 is a production grade GPU, and say we have a Nvidia pro-grade GPU also (like Quadro) Which GPU brand does have a better compatibility history with Watchout 5/6? Thanks Ced 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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