Join the discord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now you have ascended to the enterprise hardware realm and can look look down at all the plebeians with their consumer hardware

the thing about old workstations is, that they were once worth thousands and thousands for a reason! a 10 year old workstation can go further than most people realize

Sorry to hear about your accident. Hope you get better soon.

Dude i feel you. The pain i receive daily tryng to shoot videos is incomprehensible to my old self. I was a passenger in a car accident in 2018. Almost died, but was blessed to walk away with broken ribs, herniated discs and vertebrae knocked out of alignment thru my back n neck. I had to medically retire out the military n adjust to a new life. Im glad you were able to walk away and have a solid suport base. Just found you, but love the video and your perseverance. Keep going

I love this approach- "We have the 1950X at home."

You should replace the GPU with an ARC A750. Hear me out. QuickSync beats the crap out of CUDA on encoding, and you can encode in VP9 directly so you save time on the KZfaq conversions. Try it in a video with this nice encoding CPU setup and you’ll see what I mean. I replaced my Quadro RTX A4000 with an ARC A750 and I get 40+ 4K HEVC h265 to 1080p h264 transcodes simultaneously now in Plex with zero buffering. However I also have 4x 4TB PCIE 3.0 NVME SSDs (bifurcation, which your motherboard supports) in RAID 5, so 12TB total as my storage, and transcode drive is a 128 GB RAM Drive that dumps to disk before a reboot. This RAM Drive dump happens lightning fast too. I might increase the RAM Drive to 192 GB because I have 256 GB DDR 3 ECC total, and I can never seem to go over 50 GB of RAM usage with 200 chrome tabs open and other apps.

I too got a T7820 ($200) and after upgrades it's running dual 6126 for 24c/48t and 12x32 (384GB) RAM. It's a very capable platform for workstation and home server duties!

i am amused - the xeon you bought was an MSRP of 3k each and you got them for 150 or so. buying old tech is so nice...

Workstations are definitely the way to go. Got a Lenovo C30 during covid. 2 x e5-2680 v2 and 128GB of ecc DDR3. While not so good as that Dell it handles huge multiple image file sets with ease using GIMP.

Awesome idea! Thanks for the tips and links.

I got my 5810 from the same place a couple years ago. Not a powerhouse but I was super happy with the purchase - it has been my "living room"/media PC ever since... and I play pretty modern games on it all the time. 1650 v4. I also do some music production and it handles a crapton of channels and effects quite well, especially after a small ram upgrade.

I too was hit as a pedestrian, the driver was drunk. Hope you have a speedy recovery. Great video and amazing build for the cost, liked and Subbed. 😇

I use one of these similar workstations at work. I was amazed just how much they can handle.

I got the single cpu thinkcenter cause it had a good 8 pin for a 3060 12gb. Im never going back. Came with a xeon 2135 and 64 gb of ram for $190. This thing just runs beautifully. Congrats on the build, definitely use earlier videos you made to look further into this so thank you.

Hello, fellow bad-back haver!

Awesome video. Thank you for sharing.

I LOVE WORKSTATIONS

Bought a HP Z620 years ago for $200. Upgraded the Xeons to E5-2667V2. It came with 64 MB EEC, two 2T hard drives , and a 6MB video card. For maximum productivity at minimum cost, old workstations are the way to go.

you can get a nvidia telsa p40 with 24gb of ram at least of 200 dollar for vram video editing