HP xw8600 with Intel Xeon Quad 5460 3.16 GHz

Get a QuoteThe HP xw8600 Workstation provides the extreme performance that allows you to tackle the most demanding challenges – faster and more productively. With massive compute and visual capacity, the HP xw8600 delivers power, versatility and reliability.

Intel Xeon 5460

Building on the already rich Intel 64 instruction set architecture (ISA), Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series have new a instruction set that help the processors to deliver superior performance and energy efficiency to a broad range of 32-bit and 64-bit applications. These new instructions include:

• Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE4) that will provide building blocks for delivering expanded capabilities, enhanced performance, and greater energy efficiency for many applications.
• Application Targeted Accelerators that will provide a new foundation for delivering low latency, lower power fixed-function capabilities for targeted applications.
• High-performance radix 16 dividers: that roughly double the divider speed over previous generations for scientific computations, 3D transformations, and other mathematically intensive functions.
• Higher Bus Speeds: up to 1600 MHz for targeted segments such as HPC
• Super Shuffle Engine: a single-pass shuffle unit that is 128-bits wide, 45nm processors can perform this full-width shuffle in a single cycle. This significantly improves performance for SSE2, SSE3 and SSE4 instructions that have shuffle-like operations such as pack, unpack and wider packed shifts, increasing performance for content creation, imaging, video, and high-performance computing.

Adobe Production Premium CS3

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium software features a tighter-than-ever integration between Adobe's all-new video, audio, and design tools — now including Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional software — offers a smooth workflow from concept to delivery. Reach the widest possible audience by delivering content to film, video, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 offers scalable, efficient, and flexible nonlinear video editing with improved slow-motion capabilities and delivery options. Support for HD, HDV, SD, and DV gives you the flexibility to deliver high-quality work. Use Encore CS3 to create full-featured, menu-driven standard-definition DVDs, high-definition Blu-ray Discs, and interactive DVD-style SWF files for immediate use on the web. In Windows, enjoy new direct-to-disk recording and on-set monitoring tools to produce high-quality video footage with Adobe OnLocation™ CS3.

After Effects' innovative new features make this industry standard even more essential. After Effects CS3 Professional offers new Shape Layers for drawing and animating vector shapes, an intuitive new approach to shape animation using the Puppet tool, new integration with Adobe Flash and Photoshop software, and dramatically improved performance so you can maintain your creative momentum.

Matrox Axio LE

The Matrox Axio platforms let you work at the highest finishing quality with the most realtime video/graphic layers and the most comprehensive realtime tool set of any platform in their class. Matrox Axio is designed to overcome the limitations of software-only editing by providing performance- and quality-optimized effects processing. Built on Matrox Power of X and Flex technologies, Matrox Axio leverages CPU and GPU power to provide a tightly integrated, ultra high performance SD and HD editing environment for Adobe Premiere Pro.

2 x 500GB Seagate Barracuda Media Drives
w/Adaptec1430SA 4-Channel SATA II RAID Card

Combining proven components, state-of-the-art technology and expertise in volume manufacturing, the Seagate Barracuda delivers 500 GB of high-performing digital storage. Featuring a SATA 3Gb/s interface, Perpendicular Recording Technology, 105 MB/s sustained data rate each (4.16 ms avg. latency) and 32-MB cache buffer, these drives, when configured on RAID 0 through the Adaptec SATA II RAID controller can easily handle the most demanding video production needs. The Adaptec SATA II RAID 1430SA card is a four-port controller featuring Adaptec HostRAID - an integrated RAID technology that maximizes system performance and uptime. The Adaptec 1430SA supports up to four 3Gb/s Serial ATA drives, Native Command Queuing, and offers RAID levels 0, 1, 10, and JBOD (individual drive).