Your Ideal Media Server?

[Digitrevx]

Now that AMD has kinda rocked to boat on the work station grade platforms and they have been out for a little while. What would be your ideal media server for performance and expand-ability. There is old x99, now x299, and x399 from amd with more pci-e lanes then you can find uses for.

I've been quite comfy with the reliability of intel but with amd's offerings and with pretty good reviews it's actually seems like it might be worth leaving the comfort zone a little.

[Meptik]

We've been running X99 witch nVidia and having great luck. Never had any luck with AMD including the new 7100 card, our GTX1080's smoke it.

[Oaktown]

We still run most of our projects with X79 and GTX980 Hydros and it still kicks ass. I'm about to build a couple new servers that will be used for Arena, Vmix, and Watchout 6 and I'm leaning towards using the Prime X299 Delux MB to have Thunderbolt 3.

[admiralperpetual]

I built a x99 server pretty recently to stick 3x black magic quad2's in it with a 1080ti - seems that resolume is more CPU dependent and wants higher IPC / fewer, faster cores.. IE doesn't take advantage of these new high-core count cpus.. which means we can hold onto our z97/z170 systems for quite a while as they are all 4ghz + intel chips and seem to out perform the 3.5ghz xeon..

[Digitrevx]

I built a x99 server pretty recently to stick 3x black magic quad2's in it with a 1080ti - seems that resolume is more CPU dependent and wants higher IPC / fewer, faster cores.. IE doesn't take advantage of these new high-core count cpus.. which means we can hold onto our z97/z170 systems for quite a while as they are all 4ghz + intel chips and seem to out perform the 3.5ghz xeon..

Yah machine I just built for easier travel is z270 with a i3 7350 running 4.5ghz. The sad thing is such a bargin chip runs resolume well but is terrible if the machine is to ever be used to render content in some software.

Maybe x299 chips are the only middle ground to have high IPC but the spare cores and pci-e lanes to make a machine that does both well.

[Oaktown]

I think the issue is the i3 not the Z270. If you upgrade your system to an i7 with enough RAM you should be fine.

[Digitrevx]

I think the issue is the i3 not the Z270. If you upgrade your system to an i7 with enough RAM you should be fine.

While yeah a i7 7700k would render better then a i3. A i7 to me is very mild for any kind of rendering outside of Resolume use cases. The other small situational issue is the i3 does better in the small form factor case then a 7700 temprature wise. So if you were to try to have a great rendering chip that has a good IPC I'm thinking there are better options then a 7700.

But yes a i7 would be the ceiling for that i3 machine. But I'm thinking more of good Resolume machine + great cpu rendering ability. The i3 machine was made for portability and performance for Resolume only with better IO then a laptop.