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Greetings from India. I would be happy if anyone can help me building my workstation. with having budget of 2000$. my main work area is on 3d arch viz & Rendering in vray & corona. ( vray is hybrid can utilize GPU + CPU ) & Corona is CPU based). i am pretty noob in hardware stuff.i dont play games. CPU- ryzen 2700x or should i go for Thread Ripper 1920x ? GPU - 1070ti ? or does quadro have major difference in rendering ? ( quadro p4000) Ram - gskill ripjaw or trizent z 64gb 3200 mhz ssd - samsung 970 evo hdd - 2tb x 2 what cooler or fan should i use ? case ?

Hi guys, So finally its time for me to upgrade and get a decent workstation. Here is the configuration i am looking at. Main functions would be 3dsmax - modelling(not too much as our clients send most of the 3d), texturing, lighting, VRAY, PS I am going to invest some time to learn cinema4d, corona, zbrush and a few other programs. This will be my personal workstation and not for the commercial work. Would love to hear your opinion regarding the build ASUS ROG STRIX X399-E GAMING - AMD X399 AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X Noctua NH-D15 SE-AM4 ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 DUAL-GTX1060-O6G, 6GB GDDR5 HyperX Fury Black 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200 Samsung SSD 960 EVO (M.2) - 500GB Seagate BarraCuda - 3TB Corsair HX1000, 1000W Fractal Design Define R6, windowed, black

G'day CG folk. Assembling the following soon... feedback and ideas are greatly appreciated. My Questions: •Is putting 128GB RAM overkill? •Is supermicro the better motherboard to use? should I go ASUS Z9PE ?? Has anyone used supermicro or (talus) in thier workstation??? •Fitting a two NH-D9DX cooling radiators to a dual motherboard( ASUS or supermicro) with RAM installed, has anyone tried this? Will they fit? •Case recommendations please! so many out there!! -simplest, most functional and accessible design – no pretty candy needed. So far "corsair 750d" tickles my fancy. •Whats the go on sealing un-used case openings / holes -Is there a standard methods to reduce dust and improve heat management? WORKSTATION -Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-X10DAX | Dual CPU, 16 RAM slots A toss up between the above and the Asus-Z9PE ensued. I decided the X10DAX because the cpu cooler planning to use is quite large and seems it will fit the supermicro with all the RAM installed. -CPU: E5-2650V3-10X, 25Mcache,2.3GHz,105W,DDR4-2133Mhz at 2400AU$ a pop, this is all I can afford at the moment. I'm thinking two 2650's will get me across the line for most still and animated CG work . I figured going with 6 or 8 cores would be wasted on a dual cpu motherboard since a single I7 5820k CPU has great performance (evermotion ) for its price of 500AU$ and the 200AU$ difference between single and dual core motherboard. -CPU cooling: Noctua NH-D9DX I4 3U I know the water cooling systems are the rage right now but for reliability( less moving parts to fail) and its impressive cooling performance and impressive 6 year warranty... noctua makes sense. It is LARGE ( 110x95x95mm) so im a bit concerned it wont fit on the motherboard with all the RAM installed. I'd like to face the motherboard ports and CPU fans upwards so heat travels up and out of the case efficiently. -RAM: Corsair Black Vengeance LPX| DDR4 2400MHz | 8x8GB + 8x8GB = 128GB The 2650 CPU has max memory type ( intel ) of 2133MHz. Its my understanding higher Mhz does improve render times but only over longer periods ( longer than 24 hours) so i'm going with cpu recommended 2133MHz here (or 2400MHz -close enough ) -Drive for Windows 7: 240GB Kingston HyperX Predator PCIe SSD (SHPM2280P2H) An SSD plugged into the PCI slot vs the usual SATA3 cable has significant speed difference and less internal case cluttering. SATA3 speeds at 200 to 500MB/s vs 1000 MB/s is a no-brainer for me. Faster data access – yes please. -Drive for storage: Western Digital Caviar Red 2TB Standard 7500rpm disk hard drive -Graphics Card: K2200 Im using what I have already. -PowerSupply: Corsair650 Again, using what I have already. -Windows 7 Pro x64 thanks, T2Q.

Hi, I use Rhino and vray as my main tools for modelling / rendering. I have a relatively new main workstation and a small farm consisting on a Asus G73 laptop and another 2 less powerful desktops that I had around. However my laptop died (motherboard is gone) and I'm looking for an extra system to replace it. My main workstation right now: Intel I7 4770K o'clocked at 4.6 Mhz and very stable MB Asus Z87M-PLUS 32 GB Ram NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4GB SSD 256GB + 3TB HD Corsair CMPSU-650AX 650W Gold AX PSU Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler New machine budget $1,500 tops My thoughts: 1.- Getting another laptop as fast as possible to replace the dead one so that I can also use it as my portable station when I need to (not very often but always useful to have the option if I travel) or ..... 2.- Build a rig faster than my current one listed above to be used as the main station using the good video card and big hard drives from my current workstation. I'm interested mainly in the processor power and the 4770K still is a great processor as rendering slave and a small hard drive and a cheap or even on-board video card will do. I know that for the same money a desktop buys me more power so maybe I should forget the laptop option for the times I'll be needing to have something portable ... I any case, what would be the best $/GHz rendering rig that $1500 can buy me, i7? Xeon ? single? Dual ? taking in account that I could use some of the components as I mention above. I get easily lost with so many opinions ... Thanks

Hi People , im going to let pc company to put together my new workstation,mainly used for modeling/rendering purposes .Budget is around 4350 eur .. Im aiming for silent cooling .I would like to know your opinions about this build please,potentially about some changes or aditions :)Thank you very much So here is the list of all components : CPU 2x Intel XEON E5-2640v3. ( 8 cores - of 2.4 ghz base and 3.6 ghz turboboost) Cpu cooling 2x Noctua Nh-u12dx and another 2x Noctua NF-A14 ULN to replace Fractal R2 XL Fans VGA ASUS STRIX-GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5 4GB/256-bit Motherboard: ASUS Workstationboard Z10PE-D8 WS dual soc.2011-v3 C602 DDR3 ATX 2x GL HDD Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA III 6Gbit/ SSD Samsung SSD 850 EVO Series 250GB SATAIII 2.5'' RAM Kingston 32GB DDR4 2133MHZ CL14 HyperX FURY, kit 4x8GB Case Fractal Design Define XL R2 Titanium Grey Power supply unit: Corsair RM series RM850 850W, 80 PLUS Gold