Workstation always comes to the most you can afford. Nuke tends to be i/o bound so ram and faster disks are very important. 16-24gb of ram is what I see most people getting these days.
With cpu it is better to get less faster cores then more slower ones, ie, the 6 core at a higher cpu freq is probably better then a 12 core that is slower. For video card Quadro is a little bit of a waste in Nuke currently. Even Mari performs great on the highend geforce 480/580. The only biggie your missing is last I knew nvidia disabled quad buffer stereo on non quadro cards(unsure if this has changed). So if you view stereo with active glasses in the viewer, then you would need a quadro for that. If you have a passive system like the zalman, then it shouldn't matter. A couple things though. If your using red files, I would strongly suggest you get your post house to convert them to dpx/exr or do it yourself. Debayering is extremely slow. Nuke will run considerably faster with dpx/exr. Also you will have less issues with your debayer settings being different then DI. They get all pissy about that and if they are delivering you dpx then there are less problems that can occur in the pipe. -deke On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 04:08, david yu <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone recommend a workstation setup (PC) that can be used for Nuke and AE? > I'm looking to work in 2k and HD. We will be working mostly with RED files. > > I am looking to build one fast "Lead" workstation and one generic "Junior" > workstations (used for roto, tracking, cleanups ) > > I'm looking at a cost effective solutions. I don't want to buy expensive > components like Quadro cards. > Pulling large files from the network is slow so I was thinking of copying > footage to local drives. > > What kind of drives do i need to comp and stream 2k from disk? > > Would 16 GB ram be enough? > > Anyone use AMDs for CPU? > > What monitors are recommended alternatives to HP Dreamcolor? > ______________________________**_________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected].**co.uk<[email protected]>, > http://forums.thefoundry.co.**uk/ <http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/> > http://support.thefoundry.co.**uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**nuke-users<http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users> >
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