Hi
I'm planning a machine for a new setup, where we will use a lot of NDI and some SDI sources, and I have been reading a lot of posts here without getting any clear view on where the bottlenecks are, and what hardware I should get to avoid them - or at least push the limits.

The machine will be rack mounted, most likely based on a Supermicro Workstation chassis, but I really need some input on what hardware to fill it with.
I can see that the Obsidian reference system is based on Intel X299 / i9 10900X and a RTX 2080 gaming card.

Will there be any performance improvements if I change to a faster CPU - more cores, higher clock, higher memory bandwidth.

And GFX - I'm used to working with Quadro cards, but I know the gaming cards are superior for some tasks. What would be the best here?

NIC - NDI is quite hard on network traffic, and I assume the NIC has an impact. Will a regular Intel X540 series 10Gbps card be fine, or will better cards improve NDI performance?

Any good input is highly appreciated


/Arne
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