Resolume Forum

Today I wondering what is the priority list of the hardware for Resolume. Summarizing my knowledge of the software this is my priority list:

1. GPU - the heart of the software, DXV use GPU so it has to be tought
2. SSD - the speed of the data reading is also crucial so I take it to the second place
3. Mobo - the connection and data speed between the HW elements is also important if I am not in a wrong path
4. CPU - from this the list will be only a hunch. Res is a software so it uses resorces from the PC
5. RAM - Res is a 32 bit SW so I don't think memory has to be higher in this list. 8 GB is far enough in my opinion

What are you thinking folks?

Plenty of posts on this but read my answer in this post: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11369

Thanks for the link. I read lots of this kind of thread but I would like to speak about this in a different way.

Okay, GPU and SSD are obvious so skip them. But what is more important, motherboard or CPU? Should I spend more money for a high-end motherboard because an i5 processor is enough? Or buy the "cheapest" mobo what can handle a gtx780 and has a socket for the newest and fastest i7 CPU? Or instead of all of this take 32GB of ram firstly because that is the most important thing (after gpu and ssd)?

Definitely go cpu over motherboard, a motherboard is basically just a link between the important parts of the computer (cpu/gpu). Get a motherboard that has the highest end chipset your cpu can support, make sure if has enough pci-e sockets with 8x or above lanes (also processor dependent), enough sata 6gb holes, usb etc. As you noted ram is probably lowest on the list of stuff to splurge on, but it is also one of the easiest upgrades to make down the road.

hookerbot wrote:make sure if has enough pci-e sockets with 8x or above lanes

The evolution of graphics cards is quite rapid so I would make sure the motherboard has at least two PCI-E 3.0 16x lanes (both 16x not 16X & 8X) to have the ability to run two high-end cards independently or in crossfire/SLI.

Also make sure you build your rig with the right PSU so that you have enough power to cover all your GPUs.

Happy Labor Day

thanks guys.

regarding the infos in these two post I am not completelly convinced that CPU is over the motherboard. Mobo needs fast pcie slots, if it can be than 2 times 16x pcie and I think not too many motherboards are in this range and usually they have LGA2011 socket. in this case if I choose a MB with this options I just have to pick a decent LGA2011 CPU and thats it.

The reason why I put MB over CPU is that I don't see to much thing what CPU does. Of course it is operates the whole system, but GPU makes the processing of the video files so CPU "only" has to takes the system process. Or is there something beyond this?

Don't forget that Resolume is not completely like a game or 3D app where everything happens on the GPU. It still needs to read pixels from disk and then transfer these pixels to the graphic card. This task is handled by the CPU.

So fast PCIe slots, but also the CPU and a large processor cache can have an impact.

Joris wrote:So fast PCIe slots, but also the CPU and a large processor cache can have an impact.

thanks Joris from this the large processor cache is a new info.

now something comes out from the cloud which is definatelly high end products for each of the setup parts