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  1. We all know about the unfortunate (to say the least) decision of Autodesk to abandon perpetual licenses of single products and sell only monthly or annual subscriptions. I''ve seen though online stores in my country selling perpetual (at least so they say) licenses or older versions of AutoCAD, say AutoCAD 2013 LT. I'm wondering if this is: 1. Possible 2. Legal It sure is tempting, but I'm wondering if it's some kind of scum or something...
  2. Hi. I'm in the process of building a quite powerful (at least according to my previous standards) rendering workstation. I've initially set the budget to around 5000-6000 euro. This may change a bit till my final decision, since there's a larger budget to distribute to various aspects of office equipment (and software licenses), but I think the price range mentioned above is a good starting point. Most of my work will be on 3DS Max along with Vray (hopefully with Vray-RT too, thus the GPU I chose) for interiors/exteriors along with some walkthrough animations etc. I may dive into After Effects in the near future, but I have no experience whatsoever, so I don't have a clue about its hardware needs. As far as the CPU is concerned, I've looked into Xeon CPUs quite a bit, I have a feeling that in my price range it may be better to go with the fastest i7 available (i7-5960X), meaning that I would have to go to something quite more expensive to justify the performance boost of a Xeon setup. As for the GPU, as I mentioned before, I plan on trying out Vray-RT (being aware of its limitations, I believe I can establish a workflow to suit my needs in many cases and experience a HUGE time boost), and although I've read quite a bit for the GTX 980Ti probably being more of a value-for-money choice, I will probably go with the Titan X for the extra VRam. From what I know, in order to use Vray-RT GPU in the first place, the whole scene must fit into the video memory, so the 12GB would increase the complexity I would be able to add to my scene and still be able to use Vray-RT. I've gone through some setups, here and elsewhere, my initial thought includes the following setup: along with a Crucial MX220-1TB (328 euro), a WD Caviar Black 3TB (180 euro) and a Noctua NH-D15 cooler (100 euro) sums up to a total of 5700 euro. There are some things I need to go over again, the most important of them being: - Is there really any chance to change my i7 with a Xeon that would be worth the price difference for the respective performance boost? I've bookmarked to study some test scene benchmarks over at the Chaos Group forum, but the test scene there is quite small, so I'm wondering if there is more significant gain in larger scenes. - Are 32GB of RAM enough? Or should I look for 64GB to make my system more future-proof? - Is there any other really worthy option to replace my monitor setup? I have a very good experience with my current monitor, which is a Dell Ultrasharp 2410, but I really don't have anything else to compare to. - The second SSD (the Crucial MX220) may be sacrificed to save money for another component, or adding another conventional Caviar Black HDD, either for a RAID 1 setup, or simply add storage. I currently work with a 128GB SSD which fits around 70% of my storage needs for OS and main applications, I imagine 512GB of the m.2 drive are more than enough. - I haven't got any prior experience with overclocking, but if I could boost the 5960X without risking much, I could go for it, I don't know if this would mean I should go for a different CPU cooler. I would be more than happy to hear any comments on my setup and thoughts or even whole different proposals. I have to say that I live in Greece, so for price comparison anyone willing to help could give it a go here: https://www.skroutz.gr/ , which is a price comparison site for greek online stores but it's easy to navigate through the main search field, or here: http://www.visionstudio.gr/index.asp which is the specific store I chose for my setup, since it's right here in my hometown. I know it probably is a bit difficult to navigate through the hardware component list to the left (I know most of you will think "it's all Greek to me" which would be true in this case!!), I can help if needed. Thank you all in advance
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