In my own experience it is always better to go thru the process of building your own workstation to educate yourself on the latest best practices.

Hence my questions to be asked:

• Vendor build workstation or custom build one?
• CPU choice Xeon or I7 (Skylake generation)?
• DDR 2133 or 2400 registered vs. unregistered memory modules?
• Video card NVIDIA Quadro M6000 or NVIDIA TITAN X?
• What about: Thunderbolt 3? *I don’t think Xeon CPU motherboards have the thunderbolt 3 feature.

I know a lot of these things will depend on the amount of money one can spend. However, I’m trying to find the middle ground between the two and see what can get me thru the next 4 years.

Things that I know and want:

• High performance 4K+ editing workstation (time is money, money you can always make but you can’t get time back).
• New CPU 12-20 cores (Intel SkyLake) Video (NVidia Pascal) architecture.
• 64-128 GB of DDR4 memory.
• USB 3.1 with Thunderbolt 3
• M.2 SSD based on NVMe Protocol (PCIe, Gen. 3, x4) in Raid 0 for OS boot up and additional SSD in Raid 0 for Media.
• Asus motherboards are really stable and I have no complains so far.
• Editing software to be used: Blackmagic Resolve.
• Backup to NAS storage.

I’m going thru the research phase at this time hence this post to gather all valid points for the next workstation for video editing. If anyone is going thru an upgrade process at this time please share your thought and experience.