DigitalStorm Slade Pro Workstation PC Review
by Dustin Sklavos on April 23, 2014 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- desktops
- Xeon
- Quadro
- DigitalStorm
- Workstation
- Octalcore
While the DigitalStorm Slade Pro is solid if unexceptional in more garden variety consumer level tasks, it fares much better when tested in workstation applications. SPECviewperf11 is a reliable suite that should give us a pretty good idea of how an 80W Kepler GPU can stack up against some of the older Fermi architecture cards.
The march of progress continues unabated. In most tests, the Slade Pro is at or near the top. At least where workstation benchmark performance is concerned, this is a well rounded, solid machine.
Lightwave 3D 9.6 is traditionally CPU bound and fairly well threaded; the only system to consistently best the Slade Pro's powerful octalcore Xeon is the Lenovo D30, which features two octalcore Xeons (albeit from the previous generation.) As workstation CPUs go, the Xeon E5-2687W v2 is actually very close to as good as it gets for a single socket system.
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Antronman - Monday, April 28, 2014 - link
Umm, I could build a notably better system with that kind of money.Most of the Firepros actually outperform the Quadro cards (W9100 vs K6000, W7000 vs K5000).
MP doesn't have a front io, you don't have any PCIe storage, thunderbolt 2 is available on consumer mobos, etc.
Apple is pretending to innovate.
Antronman - Monday, April 28, 2014 - link
Actually it is not powerful enough to not need to upgrade it.The best model available via their website is a 6-core Xeon, with dual CF-Pro 2GB cards.
Looks to me like an upgrade is in order.
KAlmquist - Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - link
I doubt that the processor is available for $1100. Still, online retail prices are processor $2200, GPU $800, motherboard $320, memory $330, power supply $122, case $140, MS Windows $132, giving a total of $4055. Figure less than $200 for liquid cooling, optical drive, card reader, and cables, and you are talking over $1600 markup. This certainly isn't justified by the warranty, since the expensive parts aren't covered after the first year. AVA Direct will sell a similar system for about $5000, with a 3 year parts, lifetime labor warranty.wwwcd - Thursday, April 24, 2014 - link
Yes this is a consumer prices for one piece in shops. DigitalStorm do not buy components on retail prices.blackmagnum - Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - link
For this price... I expect real wood paneling and genuine leather seats! And does it come in white?etamin - Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - link
A bottom of the barrel PSU for a $5K+ system, and it's a workstation no less. What a joke.piroroadkill - Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - link
That was the first massive gaffe that caught my eye.CX series for anything you spent real money on is a totally incorrect choice.
etamin - Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - link
not just CX series...CX series with M suffix :)Antronman - Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - link
Yeah.I'm RMDing over here.
80+ Bronze, not even modular, with no professional standards at all.
I mean, WTF.
zero2dash - Thursday, April 24, 2014 - link
PSU is arguably the most offensive oversight on this build, but the lack of ECC is nearly as bad.This looks like something someone who lives near a Microcenter would sell on Craigslist (for probably the same egregious amount of money).