My HP Z8 Unreal Engine Workstation

[@TerenceKearns]

Specs Information starts at 25:10

[@solomonkelahni]

Thanks bro

[@CinematographyDatabase]

It's a long one take video, so some mistakes were spoken.
4:06 - I didn't need a powerful PC workstation
23:43 - The power supply is 1200w, not 125w lul

[@louibyron]

hiya have you thought about applying for corridor? the job there asking for seems perfect for you, but idk, maybe you want to aim higher

[@Damuskinous]

For a guy who spends a decent amount of money to insure speed and quality.
Let me offer some advise about some of that old gear you got there.
Build another rig with them, and add them to the Unreal Engine Swarm logic to lower build speeds on large render files.
Just a suggestion.

[@spectrewashere]

So good to see new content , Matt. Hope you had a good Christmas and New year.

[@beyondcinema]

Thanks Matt! Halfway into the video I realized I worked on one of your music video productions back in 2006! lol Great to see you doing well

[@hansterhorst4362]

New year, new video! Wish you a great one Matt!! 🔥🎥🎮🔥

[@samuelmoser]

Keep up with the Unreal Engine content really great videos. And you remind me that I should buy a new pc. I have a gtx 960 and a 4 core processor. And I make complicated auto landscape materials in ue4 and learning to create photorealistic results. I also use blender a lot. So maybe I should buy a new pc sometime. Hahaha

[@Maya-di2lq]

Wow that sounds crazy to me ... I use gtx 1050ti and the engine keeps crashing... Any tips?

[@cro0w]

You are living my dream.... and I realize is not cheap....

[@thejaycut1664]

Will never use HP Z workstations again! Had such a bad experience with z420 with 30minutes windows load up times. I had 6 callouts to replace parts and they never figured out the problem. After 6 months I gave up. Will always build my own desktops from now on as HP are useless at providing support for their own professional systems.
Any time you want me to build you a custom system Matt I gladly would! lol

[@Workbringer]

at the moment I don't ever plan on building my own custom PC again. Even if it was a "custom" build I would have a company build it and QC it for me. My time is for development and creation and I low key break hardware too much. Me installing the Quadro myself is honestly sketch lol.

[@thejaycut1664]

​@@Workbringer I've always had problems with companies that build them. I was even given a ROG laptop by my University in 2019, the company that spec'd formatted laptop wiping it of ROG control software making the laptop slow, sluggish and unusable. Made them replace it, losing me a month of time.
Takes me 60 minutes to build a computer that I know works.... dealing with other companies and their support lines loses me hours, days even weeks of time. Never again.
I run a video team of 2, producing 2000 to 3000 videos a year and I still have tons of time.

[@TerenceKearns]

@@thejaycut1664 I hear ya man. People think they are buying insurance against delays - real life doesn’t always work out that way. Better off putting aside a week to learn how to build your own stuff. Even if you started from zero, one week of self education is worth more than being dependent on someone else for tech support.
Teach a man to fish....

[@aZbrushLife]

Godsent. Thanks, man.

[@aldo_3d]

That’s crazy, i did not know it can hold 2 CPUs too

[@randalverde]

I have the same exact computer with dual xeon processors but I can not get my hands on a RTX A6000 or RTX 8000 because of scalpers; this is super frustrating because I'm really trying to make some stuff in Unreal and short films

[@oj397]

subbed

[@evening8990]

Might need to upgrade that psu to 250w if you wanna go SLI :) happy new year Mat

[@mridulsarmah5974]

Broken 3d artists like me who wants global illumination and realtime VFX but doesn't got a rig that can run Unreal 4, the blessing came in form of Blender EEVEE.

[@TerenceKearns]

Learn octane for blender. It’s free.

[@shakaama]

I have this idea: could I make a computer so crazy, set it up in a home office, and rent out the computer for people to come and rent it for a week at a time? or even expand that to sound proof room with green screen backdrop and camera and mic setup too?

[@Nelivitone]

gz on the upgrade

[@mateharris]

Very cool tech. Thanks for sharing.

[@Kwendiesel]

Thanks I needed this.

[@TerenceKearns]

Interesting conversation. Thanks for vlogging this!

[@TerenceKearns]

There’s no way I’d spend that kind of money at this point. I’ll hack together some sort of dual 3090 setup abs see how I go for now. Gonna use it for green screen virtual production. A one-pc studio for now.

[@mstr3]

Nice Video. Thanks Now i know what HP Z8 can do.. Cool

[@MaskedIG]

That pc is beastmode and highhhhh

[@chrisduwe]

Hey Matt, tx for all ur amazing videos! We are following in your footsteps here in Norway, got the Rokoko suit, vivetracker and so on - we have a question: how to set up the virtual camera blueprint in unreal to get the controller to zoom in and out, so that the buttons on the control act as zoom-buttons? Thank you!!!!

[@hectorarmienta3569]

Thanks for the video. A question. I'd like to purchase a head mount for iphone for facial mocap. Do you have a suggestion? I also have the perception neuron suit. I've created characters using Character Creator. I had planned on doing the animation using Perception Neuron, transferring the data to Iclone 7, then transferring it to Unreal Engine. I'm now thinking it would be better to transfer the character to Unreal Engine. Then connect the Mocap data directly into Unreal Engine.

[@EugenioTrainer]

Are you going to continue using the Blackmagic Design Decklink Capture Card?
Awesome content, thanks for sharing your process

[@robbiyoung85]

tooo awesomme man

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

I am glad you wear gloves not like other punk youtube professionals with bare salty sweaty hands. Little criticism: you should use esd safe at least worst strap, ground yourself and expensive WS, music is full. Thank for sharing

[@CinematographyDatabase]

I’m not a pro computer builder. I wear gloves because my dumb ass sliced my finger installing my last graphics card. The metal is very sharp on the back and you have to kind of force the card into place.

[@kenhew4641]

It's crazy to need such extreme hardwares to run UE5....I was thinking of selling my one of my kidneys and maybe get a Dell Precision laptop to try out their realtime virtual production....guess I'll stick to the old skool method for now, set up my project hit render and go on a weekend trip....i reckon by the time I get back my renders would have just about finish

[@CinematographyDatabase]

UE5 will run on that laptop fine

[@kenhew4641]

@@CinematographyDatabase really? That's reassuring to know. The last thing a struggling 3D and post production freelancer like myself needs is spending ungodly amounts of money on densely populated silicon wafers only to find them still lacking, and lagging... Oh great video on the topic of UE5 and the whole realtime CGI rendering scene in general. I started in 1999, with a then supreme but now defunct Silicon Graphics made workstation, we've come a long way to finally realizing what was my biggest hardest wet dream at that time - realtime, physically accurate light and reflections raytracing - nevermind that it can be done now at FHD resolution, on a laptop, without having to mortgage my family house....keep it up, subbed 🙂

[@abdullahal-shimri3091]

The motherboard for this workstation is for sale on eBay for $900.

[@ramonRsolorio]

My 1080 is getting real tired 😂

[@k-dude]

Hey, how quiet or loud is your "HP Z8 G4" during heavy operation? Is the noise still unnoticeable in that scenario? Or is it noticeable without being annoying? Or is it annoyingly loud?

[@CinematographyDatabase]

the Z8s are really quiet, I think that is a big design mandate for them. If you start doing major rendering the fans will of course turn on, but compared to my custom PC it is "silent." If you do extremely sound sensitive work, you still keep the "box" in a separate room.

[@k-dude]

@@CinematographyDatabase That's good to hear. And thanks for the quick response.

[@princeofdarkness9537]

will dual Xeon E5 2687W v1 will work good with unreal engine 5?

[@sinanarts]

Hey Matt, Iamahuge fan of yoursand appreciate your effortson wide spreading precious information accross globe.. Iwish to learn something. 1) Can I use OCULUS RIFT "S" as tracker like vive.? 2) Do I have to buy headset of the vive or can I just buy 2 - 3 trackers.? 3) Iphone will do exact the same like vive does or there is a draw back on that.? Thank you for your time

[@SouLSnipingNation]

Can you unprivate your videos of you playing through games like Star Wars and call of duty? I miss watching those!

[@Dsk07]

great talking!
we have a Z8 at work and we're pretty happy with him. We use it for color grade and finishing movies/shortfilms/tvshows...
I love airflow design.
We have 2x rtx2080ti, decklink, and PCI raid card. I would like to have more PCI ports... :(
PD: ¿Did you try to use thunderbolt3 on it?

[@xpvy8336]

Hey! Awesome Video, keep goin g! What Chair are you using? cheers:)

[@danielkenobi]

It is a Herman Miller Mirra 2

[@pgjohnson5504]

Hi. What memory modules are you using? HP brand? Buffered/unbuffered. I want to beef my HP but don’t want to blow the budget on memory before I upgrade the processor. I was told I don’t necessarily need the Buffered.

[@videoeditingpro9618]

Which external box you use is it gteck ology or lacir
How many drive raid ?
Thanks for info

[@CinematographyDatabase]

I use Samsung SSDs and Gtech Ruggeds for externals usually. USB-C.

[@drewjackson3858]

You seem smart, maybe you can answer this. I just want to make videos and I want the final effect to be like borderlands in space. But I want to include raytracing. These videos are under ten minutes. I know in unity you can slow down the rendering to one tenth speed. Is there something like that in unreal (not changing fps) and if there is what's the minimum card you'd get? Could a 3070 do that without the renders taking all day? Great video btw.

[@CinematographyDatabase]

If you mean capturing real time, UE games can dilate time to basically slow down physics into runtime “bullet time.”
For rendering in UE Sequencer you could stretch out the animation clips while still rendering at 24/25/30 FPS.
3070 is OK, but you will be limited with scene size memory wise but the raw CUDA core count is decent.
For glass/translucent scenes you are probably better off Vray/Redshift in Maya/Max/C4D.

[@drewjackson3858]

@@CinematographyDatabase I hear ya. I'm a little worried about changing the framerate. Hopefully 4070s will be under seven hundred and beef up the rt. Thanks for the quick reply.

[@orestesdd]

How much did you spend to buy your HP Z8 G4 Workstation? Thanks for your video.

[@bboylync]

Can you make a video about how to make the Moving wall in the set?

[@io_inc]

Hey man compared it with the Mac Pro do you think a Mac Pro would be great for game development with unreal?

[@AlexKongMX]

Hey Matt, where are you these days? 4 months no post, I wonder what you are up to, cheers!

[@nicksaya]

anyone here using for music production with cubase or protools?

[@denisnalez6117]

Nice video. There are another way to do something similar using my sony a7III ?

[@ErrorJordan1s]

I'm 20 seconds in and should dislike this since I can't currently afford such an amazing rig

[@user-jw4fn6fh2x]

Matt, where can I get a digital LED screen for production? I want to use the same technique you used in your Unreal Engine promo shoot. Which companies did you use?

[@selfishbeats]

lol a good set up would be upwards of 1 million dollars at the moment for the screens alone. Most people will be using green screen for a moment.

[@maksimmaksim7872]

Ue4 с двумя процессорами работает?

[@keabetsoemoses763]

He should have brought the rtx A6000

[@anonym_user_nksnskdnkdnksndkn]

HEY I GOT A QUESTION. COULD YOU MAKE A VIDEO HOW TO CONECT BUTTONS WITH MOVES. SO HOW CAN I DO THAT WHEN I PUSH FOR EXAMPLE W, THE PERSON MOVES FORWARD?
THANK UU
KAITOOO
PS: FRESH VIDEOS

[@kwankinlui1284]

Would you buy RTX A6000?

[@7_of_1]

Where are you man? Not seen you in a while, all ok or you just busy?

[@abdullahal-shimri3091]

I’m here man

[@stilesget2it398]

Is south Africa getting servers

[@TheSatzy6699]

Can you please give me ur old machine.😀

[@way2petty737]

Gpu itself like 1000 😒

[@spectrewashere]

FIRST!

[@tekiero]

bro, who are you? Do you have a personal instagram?

[@edwardmacnab354]

So you don't really know what you're talking about ? Great ! That's going to be useful because I don't really know what I'm looking for .

[@CinematographyDatabase]

🤝

[@vasiliskailyushina9629]

Буржуин ))

[@ultragjl1976]

wat

[@jeremymullins1294]

$$$$$$

[@stilesget2it398]

For fortnite

[@AHEVENZ]

A wedding filmmaker : just get a m1 macbook , nobody needs those quadro super high end graphics thing. If you need pro equipment buy the imac pro!

[@katherinetaylor4416]

Hi Boys 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️