asiacc Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Hello. I want to buy new computer for 3d max and visualizations. I think about this : - CPU - I7 3820 - motherboard- GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD3 X79 s.2011. - RAM- Patriot AMD Entertainment DDR3 Dual Chanel 2x8GB 1600 11-11-11-28 AE316G1601U2K. - graphic card- MSI GTX560Ti 2048MB DDR5 256bit PCI-e Twin Frozr II OC. - hdd 120 GB with ssd what do you think about this configuration? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimitris Tolios Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Hello. I want to buy new computer for 3d max and visualizations. I think about this : - CPU - I7 3820 - motherboard- GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD3 X79 s.2011. - RAM- Patriot AMD Entertainment DDR3 Dual Chanel 2x8GB 1600 11-11-11-28 AE316G1601U2K. - graphic card- MSI GTX560Ti 2048MB DDR5 256bit PCI-e Twin Frozr II OC. - hdd 120 GB with ssd what do you think about this configuration? Why 3820 instead of 3770 or even 2600? Why LGA2011 in general if you don't plan on more than a Quad core, more than 3x GPUs, more than 32GB or Ram etc... Other than the above comments, there are a lot of stuff written over the last 1-2 months on the same subject. Read on the similar threads for new PC builds, almost all of them do contain info that should help you assemble your workstation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asiacc Posted January 1, 2013 Author Share Posted January 1, 2013 hello I would like to buy a new computer. please help me. Intel Core i7-3770K 3,5 GHz 8MB cache s. 1155 GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD4H Intel Z77 LGA 1155 (3xPCX/VGA/DZW/GLAN/SATA3/USB3/RAID/DDR3/SLI/CROSSFIRE) Patriot Viper 3 DDR3 2x8GB 2133MHz CL11 XMP PV316G213C1K dysk ssd 128 gb samsng MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti, 2GB DDR5 (256 Bit) Is it a good configuration? I wonder I should choose gigabyte motherboard or perhaps MSI? Or Asus better? I always use gigabyte but I do not know now. and one questgion about graphic card- MSI Geforce GTX 650 2048 MB/128 Bit DVI/HDMI or EVGA Geforce GTX 560 TI 2048 MB DDr 5/256 BIT/HDMI or ASUS Geforce 650 2048MB DDR5/128 Bit MSi Geforce GTX 660 TI 2048MB DDr5/192 bit or MSI geforce GTX 660 TI 2048 DDr5 which i shpuld choose? or quadro 600 ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimitris Tolios Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 (edited) Motherboards using the same chipset rarely differ more than 1-2% in performance, which could boil down to statistical errors. If you would choose a mid-range Z77 based product from any of the aforementioned companies you would probably be fine. The CPU is great. Ram is fine - still you don't have to have 2133, it won't get any better for rendering over 1866 or even 1600. Main system RAM is usually so much faster feeding data to other components, that it is rarely the bottleneck. 1866 is fast enough. Save some money. SSD: 128GB is fine for OS + 3DS max + adobe suite etc, but if you plan on installing a lot of additional programs, it might start getting tight. 180-256GB give you more space. The Samsung 830 is a great choice for a drive, and so does the newer 840 Pro. I would not go for the 840 non-pro, as it is based on NAND that has by definition smaller lifespan (SLC (most enterprise SSD drives)>> MLC (most drives from OCZ, Samsung, Crucial etc) >> TLC (cheaper drives like the new 840). Samsung publishes number claims for the 840 that by no means make it a bad choice, but the 830 and 840 Pro offer by definition much better reliability for not that much more money. HDD: you will need some short of storage ontop of the SSD. A 1-2TB WD Caviar Black or Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 series would be great (ofc it can be bigger, that's up to you). Graphic Card (GPU): w/e we were saying about system RAM, it is usually the opposite for GPUs. Most GPUs are memory starved. In layman terms, that happens because the GPUs are organized as clusters of dozens or in our days hundreds or thousands of small processing units, that work in parallel, and need to be fed at the same time from the same memory bank. That is much different from the main system memory which gets to support no more than 1-2 threads in most applications, and worst case around 8-16 when rendering. The more memory bandwidth a GPU has, the more responsive it usually is (comparing models of the same generation or not-too-far-apart, like those you have listed). The 128bit models are so by definition inferior to the 192/256/384bit models (something easily reflected by the price differences usually). Having "more" of 128bit memory cannot make up for the difference in speed in almost any case. All the cards you have listed are gaming cards. None is impressive for 3DS work. The Quadro 600 is an entry level workstation card. It will have optimized drivers for viewport performance in many programs, but if you are not going for a simple ACAD workstation you will be disappointed, and the card won't be able to provide any real "horsepower" for GPU accelerated applications in the Adobe Suite or GPU specific renderers - something supported gaming cards can do much better. Quadro's smaller than the 2000 are not worth considering imho, and before you get to the 4000 (or older equiv) you won't be getting noticeably better viewport performance that you would with a mid-range gaming card across the board. Edited January 2, 2013 by dtolios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asiacc Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 Dear Dimitris Thank you for your reply, It was very helpful for me:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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