I have been tasked with parting out a new workstation computer for my my university's robotics lab. Our current workstation is over 5 years old and is in the process of dying. Our faculty advisory has told us to part out our dream system. We use our workstation for rendering UAV simulations and other ROS (robot operating system) projects that require a good amount of processing power. We have deiced that we want to go with a 2011-V3 socket processor either 8 or 6 core. We would like a workstation graphics card for our programming needs but are open to consumer grade products. We need the motherboard to support at least one M.2 SSD. We would like all of the parts to have good Linux support since this machine will be in use well past our time at our university. All in all we need CPU, motherboard, RAM, SSD, and graphics card recommendations.
So are you going to want Open CL over CUDA cuz freedom then?
Also what budget?
And whats the display set up?
We were not given a number for the budget but we are expected to keep things reasonable. We believe that we want NVIDIA because the driver support is better in our experience. We will be driving 3 1080p monitors and 1 1080p television with this rig.
Well does your software use OpenCL or CUDA, and I'm sure AMD drivers are probably fine
Most of our software uses CUDA or is unspecified, so we would definitely need an NVIDIA solution.
Well that kinda sucks, you'd get 8gbs of VRAM with the W7100 from AMD, which is less expensive by a bit compared to the K4200 here
Also that case is just a personal favorite of mine, though you may find the hot swap hard drive bays useful, I just don't think you're supposed to actually hot swap with them running, as people have reported dead drives from the HAF XB
the giant HR-22 should keep things nice and cool especially with the high pressure fan included
Also if you want something even quieter than the venturi fans there, you could get a 200mm fan to mount in the top of the case for intake
I'd wait until the Broadwell-E chips to bump up to the 8 core
although it should keep everything running cool, and wendell reviewed the motherboard here, and like he says in the review if you're going to use a 950 M.2 you may want to buy a heatsink for it
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CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($379.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright HR-22 Fanless CPU Cooler ($86.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X99 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($308.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Crucial 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($119.99 @ Adorama)
Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($324.99 @ Micro Center)
Video Card: PNY Quadro K4200 4GB Video Card ($773.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Cooler Master HAF XB EVO ATX Desktop Case ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Rosewill 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($176.80 @ Amazon)
Case Fan: Cooler Master Blade Master 40.8 CFM 80mm Fan ($8.72 @ Amazon)
Case Fan: Fractal Design HF14-BK 118.2 CFM 140mm Fan ($11.99 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Fractal Design HF14-BK 118.2 CFM 140mm Fan ($11.99 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Fractal Design HP14-PWM 78.1 CFM 140mm Fan ($19.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $2314.41
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