

EDIT: I have upgraded my CPU to a 4930K and my motherboard to the R4BE. Eric's 4930K overclocked to 4.4GHz only draws 4.5 watts at idle and scores 25,795 in GeekBench 3 64bit. My The 3930K overclocked to 4.5GHz draws about 19 watts at idle and scores 24,250 in GeekBench 3 64bit. They all run flawlessly and extremely fast on both builds. My tools of choice are Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, Audition CC, Photoshop CC and Davinci Resolve. I use mine mainly for video post production including editing, composting, color grading, motion graphics and audio editing. My current build is a R4E with a 3930K 4.5Ghz 4930k 4.4Ghz and GTX 580 3GB Classified + GTX 570 HD 2.5GB GTX 980 and Titan X graphics. Eric's build cost $3,066.47 and scores 25,795 in GeekBench 3 64bit A 2013 Mac Pro 8 core with 32GB ram costs $5,899.00 and scores about 25,925 in GeekBench 3 64bit. No messy rat's nest of external drive enclosures, PCI-E chassis, power supplies, and $50 dollar thunderbolt cables here. The R4E has 5 usable PCI-E slots to allow for 2 double width GPUs, a DeckLink card, a RAID card and a Red Rocket card if you'd like. There are 5 5.25" bays in the front to allow for even more HDDs in hot swap bays. The case is an Aluminum unibody with a steel frame and has room for 5 internal hard drives and 1 SSD. It has working speedstep and turbo and it cost half of what a similarly powered 2013 Mac Pro (Trashcan) would cost.

I did it for a friend who wanted extremely powerful machine for video editing and all around digital media creation. OCZ 850W ZX Series Fully-Modular 80PLUS Gold High Performance Power SupplyĪDATA Value-Driven S102 Pro Effortless Upgrade 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive H ttp://WD AV-GP WD40EURX 4TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" AV Video Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive WD AV-GP WD20EURX 2TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Inateck Fresco Logic FL1100 USB 3.0 PCI-E Card 4 external ports without internal header connector. Inateck Fresco Logic FL1100 USB 3.0 PCI-E Card with internal header header connector for front case ports. Just read this first:ĮVGA GeForce GTX 770 DUAL FAN SuperClocked 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card If you want different RAM or more of it, no problem. G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (8 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 140mm and 120mm SSO CPU Cooler Intel Core i7-4930K Ivy Bridge-E 3.4GHz LGA 2011 130W Desktop Processor SilverStone Fortress Series SST-FT02B-W-USB3.0 aluminum unibody Computer CaseĪSUS Rampage IV Extreme LGA 2011 Intel X79 Motherboard Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
