If you want CS5 but need a workstation upgrade, then MAINGEAR has a new “Quantum SHIFT workstation” you may be interested in. With a base price of $3,995, the machine scales up to an impressive 3 Quadro FX cards and 24GB of Ram. It also supports the new Fermi-based GTX480 cards for an impressive performance boost:
“Adobe CS5 powered by GeForce GTX 480 hardware has enabled us to achieve same-day edits with our in-house video production,” said Chris Morley, CTO of MAINGEAR. “In seven years of designing and selling high definition post production workstations, I’ve never seen so much get done in so little time and for so little money. The ROI with SHIFT powered by NVIDIA running Adobe CS5 is amazing.”
Of course, it’s not cheap. The building with dual Quad-core Xeons, 24G of Ram, and Dual GTX480’s comes in around $7000, and the “Fully loaded” version with dual Hex-core Xeons, 96G of Ram, and Dual GeForce FX5800’s with 8G of Ram in SLI comes in at a wallet-busting $22k.
Full release after the break.
MAINGEAR Debuts Quantum SHIFT Workstation PC for Creative Professionals
The ultimate PC for Adobe CS5 employs up to 3 Quadro FX cards,
Intel i7 Processors, and up to 24GB RAMUnion, New Jersey – April 12, 2010 – MAINGEAR Computers, award-winning builders of custom computers for PC gamers, enthusiasts, and creative professionals, unveils the Quantum SHIFT Workstation, an everyday super computer that exceeds the demands of the most power hungry graphics professionals. Fully optimized for Adobe CS5, the SHIFT employs up to three NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics cards to enable a GPU accelerated Adobe Creative Suite that allows you to design with creative precision. SHIFT’s unique vertical heat-stack design ensures that your Quadro equipment remains cool and quiet no matter how intense your tasks may be.
With Adobe CS5 powered by MAINGEAR, you can navigate images like never before with GPU-accelerated scrubby zoom, bird’s eye zoom, and 3D modeling. Also, GPU-accelerated color picker, color dropper and real time brush resizing give you immersive interaction with your canvas. The CUDA-accelerated Mercury Engine in Premiere Pro gives post-production houses the power to edit more than 3 layers and multiple effects in real-time. With Quadro’s GPU acceleration in Premiere Pro, playback of two layers HDV and effects can be accelerated in real time on the GPU. At nearly 30 frames per second. Compare that to 2.2 frames per second on the CPU only.
“Adobe CS5 fully leverages the advantages of NVIDIA’s Quadro FX GPU accelerated technology,” said Wallace Santos, CEO and Founder of MAINGEAR. “Quantum SHIFT optimizes both technologies with enhanced performance and airflow, providing creative professionals with the most advanced workstation PC ever created.”
In addition, the new GeForce GTX 480 brings an unprecedented amount of professional power to the table. If you’re looking for the ability to playback three layers of HD, and twice the performance of a GTX 285 in CS5, the SHIFT with GeForce GTX 480 is a powerhouse editing product.
“Adobe CS5 powered by GeForce GTX 480 hardware has enabled us to achieve same-day edits with our in-house video production,” said Chris Morley, CTO of MAINGEAR. “In seven years of designing and selling high definition post production workstations, I’ve never seen so much get done in so little time and for so little money. The ROI with SHIFT powered by NVIDIA running Adobe CS5 is amazing.”
Consumers can purchase the Quantum SHIFT at MAINGEAR’s Web site www.maingear.com/quadro-adobecs5 or order by phone at (888-MAINGEAR). The base price is $3,399 and comes with MAINGEAR’s premium Lifetime Labor and Phone Support with a 1 year hardware warranty and is backed by the best in-house support team in the country.
since the gtx 480 is not officially supported by adobe, do we know for a fact that this system was indeed built with a gtx480 and actually powered up, and cs5 used with it, with the gpu accelleration turned on and verified that it’s actually working?
or is the mention of a gtx 480 just a typo when it should have been gtx 470, which adobe DOES support?
can we have better verification of whether use of video cards that are not officially supported actually works? this casual mention of using a card wtih cs5 that just so happens to be unsupported seems confusing. a professional review of such a thing should at least say something like “although the gtx480 is not on adobe’s official list of supported cards, the gtx470 is, and cs5 uses the gtx480 anyway – with slightly better performance than the gtx470. but we’ll have to wait and see if adobe tests the gtx480 and adds it to their list of officially supported cards.” but nope. no acknowledgement that adobe even has such a list!
so what’s the real story? it would help to know when planning a system build for cs5 work.
thanks!