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‎12-01-2015 08:26 AM - edited ‎12-01-2015 08:39 AM

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Product: HP Z800 Workstation
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

 I don't need help, I am posting this to help others if they are thinking about using a Z800 or similar setup for a budget video editing or gaming pc. 

 

 Ok so I wanted to put together a video editing pc that I can game on as well, mainly to use when editng my youtube videos. My laptop was rediculously slow at this. I had a HP Pavilion 17 with a AMD A10 apu. I know have a HP EliteBook 8560w but its still not nearly as powerful as my Z800. 

 

 I found a HP Z800 on ebay from a reseller with a good reputation for $400 shipped. Here are the specs as shipped.

- 2 x Xeon E5640 2.67GHz quad core cpus with hyperthreading

- 6 x 2GB DDR3-1333 ECC Registered memory

- 1TB WD Black Enterprise HDD

- Was not in the specs for the sale but I was happy to see it came with the 1100 watt power supply.

- Windows 7 Pro SP1

 

 I bought it knowing I was going to do some upgrades right away but it would be a good base for video editing.

 

 Here are the upgrades I did.

 

- 2 x Xeon X5672 3.2GHz quad core cpus with hyperthreading

- 12 x 4GB DDR3-1333 ECC Registered memory - 48GB total

- Crucial BX100 250GB SSD

- 2 TB Western Digital Green Drive

- PCI Express USB 3.0 add in card

- Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB Reference Graphics card

 

It does a great job with video editing and gaming. Here are links to a few of videos about when I got it and doing the upgrades. Also some benchmarks, gaming and video editing performance.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SLCnWk2BIY

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-WWMlsLdFw

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD7iWmZtp_I

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsngXU8blI

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPE8H7t-aVQ

 

Let me know what you guys think. I think for the around $1000 I have into it I couldn't beat it for that money.

 

Future Upgrades I plan on adding eventually:

 

- 2 x Xeon X5690 3.46GHz 6 core hyperthreaded cpus 

- Samsung 850 EVO 3D Nand 1TB SSD or a PCI Express SSD

- HP 613768-001 Liquid cooling heat sink assembly

- 2 more 2TB WD Green drives

- More powerful graphics card

- Nvidia Tesla compute Card For 3D rendering and encoding

- Maybe more Memory so I can use a scratch disk program to use a dedicated amount of ram as a scratch disk

 

Who knows what else. If anyone has any suggestions let me know.

HP Z800 - 2 x Xeon X5672 cpus - 48GB Memory, GTX 970 Reference / HP EliteBook 8560w - i7-2760QM - 32GB memory.
Budget PC with a not so budget graphics card HP Z800 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
Budget PC with a not so budget graphics card HP Z800 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
youtube.com/watch?v=8SLCnWk2BIY
Finally finished the Video editing/Gaming setup. If anyone wants any info or help with their own setup on a budget let me know. I got a HP Z800 Workstation for really cheap. Its a powerful workstation with 2 processors and 12 RAM slots that can use up to 192GB of RAM. I added 2 faster processors ...
Adding my new CPUs and RAM to my HP Z800 Workstation
Adding my new CPUs and RAM to my HP Z800 Workstation
youtube.com/watch?v=r-WWMlsLdFw
So I finally got my 2 new Intel Xeon X5672 Processors and the other 12GB of RAM to throw in my HP Z800 workstation. The CPUs are Xeon X5672 Quad core CPUs that run at 3.2GHz and turbo to 3.6GHz. They are also Hyperthreaded, they have 12MB of smart cache and they run at 95 watts. The memory is 6 ...
Budget video Editing PC! Professional Workstation HP Z800
Budget video Editing PC! Professional Workstation HP Z800
youtube.com/watch?v=xD7iWmZtp_I
I wanted to share what I got to be able to edit my videos with. I was using my Toshiba laptop but it would take and hour to an hour and a half to encode a 8 to 12 minute 1080p video. This workstation will encode the same videos in 2 to 6 minutes. It is a HP Z800 workstation computer. It is made ...
Look at the gaming performance with the HP Z800 and GTX 970 Graphics card
Look at the gaming performance with the HP Z800 and GTX 970 Graphics card
youtube.com/watch?v=5fsngXU8blI
Edit - With some driver updates and setting update I am getting around 80-90 fps average with everything on ultra now. This is just a video showing the gaming performance of my budget setup. I'm using a HP Z800 Workstation with 2 Intel Xeon X5672 Quad core processors, 24GB of PC3-10600 ECC ...
Z800 Benchmarks and Encoding performance
Z800 Benchmarks and Encoding performance
youtube.com/watch?v=HPE8H7t-aVQ
In this video I am just showing of the video encoding performance of my Budget editing/gaming rig, the HP Z800 workstation. I also ran some benchmarks like cinebench, Heaven, and Aida64. The current specs on my workstation are below. HP Z800 Workstation - 2 x Intel Xeon X5672 quad core CPUs at ...
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