Michael Tebinka

This is very useuful information as I'm pretty much in an identical situation of building a new machine. Let me know what you decide Margus.

That's a beast of a case but looks really solid! What kind of temperatures are you running at? I see two digits, something 1260 and 38, would that be the internal temperature and fan speed?

Hi all,

With 993 days since the last update of the Mac Pro I am now in the process of purchasing components for a PC-build which essentially means that I will shift much of the heavy lifting to a Windows-based platform. Not having built any PC's in the last years I can see there is a wealth of interesting components to choose from. I have been compiling a list of parts that seem like a good fit but would like to hear your recommendations based on experience. At the moment I am looking at a full size ATX motherboard, a Xeon-processor, internal storage (expanding to external storage later) and good GPU for Davinci Resolve and some Assimilate Scratch work when needed.

Motherboard: ASUS X99-E WS/USB3.1 http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/X99E_WSUSB_31/overview/
CPU: Intel Xeon (good enough to do heavy lifting (together with GPU) of raw codecs such as RED / CinemaDNG etc))
Memory: 64GB ECC (expandable to 128)
Storage (system + work): Intel PCI-E SSD 750 series https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/se/sv/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-750-series.html (2 in RAID?)
GPU: Nvidia Titan X or Z ? 

All recommendations are greatly appreciated!

Many thanks

Michael