Arch Viz Custom Machine Build Help!

[graymitchell]

Hello everyone!

 

I am attempting to build a custom machine to be used for 3ds max, vray, and photoshop. The 3ds max will be less on modeling and more on rendering. The photoshop will be with very large image files. I have a budget of $1000.

 

After doing hours of research I have come up with the following setup. Please tell me if it looks correct!

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K

GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB

SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB

MBD:???

 

As far as motherboard goes, I havent researched it a ton yet, but have read that it could be good to reserve an extra GPU slot for Vray RT if i wanted to upgrade to more graphics in the future. Also maybe 6 slots of RAM instead of only 4. But I would love any suggestions you have!

 

Thanks,

 

Gray

[joelmcwilliam]

go with the 1070 with lots of vram. it will be the most bang for the buck and for sli rendering.

 

for sli gpu rendering i would look for a gpu that comes with watercooling. Get a case that can fit two gpu with watercooling.

 

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/AutoDesk-3ds-Max-2017-GeForce-GPU-Performance-816/#Conclusion

[garethrussell]

Hi Gray,

 

How did you go with this build? I'm researching components now that almost perfectly match yours listed above. How are you finding the performance?

 

Regards,

Gareth

[Francisco Penaloza]

I would totally recommend looking into AMD Ryzen build, I just upgraded mines to a Ryze 1700X and I can't be happier.

About the same price, way more performance, there are a few threads in this forum with specs and opinions, but if you are around that price you would get better rendering power and regular workstation performance with an AMD Ryze CPU now than compared to a Intel CPU.