HP Z640 Custom 4K 18-core Video Editing Computer from Z Workstations

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I previously did a few posts/videos about my custom 4K video editing laptop. You can see them
here https://youtu.be/TWrmjO2ZLgI
here https://goo.gl/bF6hqA
and here https://goo.gl/yjYMB6

and also my raw 4K video editing desktop build: https://goo.gl/F4zydH

In this post, I want to share with you my experience of using another editing computer - the HP Z640. This system was lent to me by Z Workstations, a company that customizes HP Z workstations for video, photo and audio professionals.

https://zworkstations.com/

The benefit of going with Z Workstations, rather than HP Direct, is that they offer more configuration options and lower prices.

In the professional editing world, the HP Z workstations are very popular. Both AVID and Autodesk have HP as their only Windows-based authorized system. Adobe raves about the HP Z workstation as well.

Here is the link to the exact system I used: https://zworkstations.com/configurations/40668/

Some of the specs:
•18-Core 2.3GHz Intel Xeon Haswell E5-2696 v3 [18-cores / 36-threads]
•64GB of 2133MHz DDR4 ECC Registered RAM
•500GB PCIe Flash Storage (~1500MB/s)
•GTX Titan X 12GB (Pascal)
•Windows 10 Professional 64-bit

UPDATE! This system actually has a single 64GB memory module. Mistake was made in the video recording, which is why in the video I say there are 4 bars of 16GB memory modules.

Key points I wanted to mention are:
•The processor has lots of cores
•Nice amount of memory
•It has very fast SM951 NVMe flash storage - it performs at about 1500MB/s
•I like the Pascal Titan X GPU - it provides fantastic performance at a reasonable cost

Overall, it's an nicely balanced system built with quality, high-performing components. Please watch my full review to see how well the system performs.

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