Carl Gissing Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 (edited) I built my home PC a while ago now for modeling and rendering but it's starting to show it's age with rendering speeds compared to my machine at work. I would like some suggestions on what to upgrade. Current System: CPU: i7 5960x Motherboard: ASUS X99 Pro Cooling: Watercooled RAM: 32 GB HDD: SSD for programs and RAID 2tb for storage GPU: Geforce GTX 970 Software I use: 3DS Maax 2020, Vray Next, PS Rendering time is my bottleneck, I'm thinking the most obvious choice is a cpu upgrade but not sure what will work on my motherboard. I have max £700 budget for the upgrade, I'll probably sell the older components afterwards to recoup some of that. I don't currently do any GPU rendering. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Cheers Edited May 22, 2020 by Carl Gissing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolaos M Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 I have a similar system myself. Just a better gpu (1070). I'll tell how I see it. It's not worth upgrading just the cpu in this old system. Your best bet would be a used 6950X, or a compatible Xeon. Not much of an upgrade. You would improve your rendering times, but single threaded performance would be worse, especially with a s2011 Xeon. What you can do is sell your current combo (cpu+motherboard+RAM), and get yourself a new Ryzen set: - 3950X for ~680£ - a X570 motherboard for ~ 150-200£ - a new RAM kit 2x16gb at 3200MHz, for ~ 150-160£ For approximately 1000£ you could have way better performance in any scenario. Especially for rendering in Vray, you could see more than 100% faster times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Gissing Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 Thanks for the reply. I think you're right, I suppose I would get roughly £300-£400 for the CPU, motherboard and RAM I have in it now so if I sell that it's not so much of a stretch. Would just like to buy myself a few more years before a full rebuild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolaos M Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, Carl Gissing said: Would just like to buy myself a few more years before a full rebuild. I understand, but the distance between 700-1000£ is too small to let such a performance boost (more than 100%) go untapped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Gissing Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 What about this as an option, very similar bundle to what you describe https://www.novatech.co.uk/motherboardbundles/view/mbb-39x16.html Not sure how much of a difference the lower spec CPU would make? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolaos M Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 I can't open the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Gissing Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 Hmm that's strange. It's a motherboard bundle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Gissing Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 Hmm that's strange. It's a motherboard bundle. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Twelve-Core Processor - 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX Black DDR4 3200MHz Memory - Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite Motherboard £810 so not a huge saving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Gissing Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 Although I suppose that's not much RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikolaos M Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Carl Gissing said: Although I suppose that's not much RAM Exactly. The processor is ~20% slower in rendering compared to the 3950X, and only 16gb of RAM will get you nowhere. Not a great bundle for what you want. Edited May 23, 2020 by Nikolaos M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Edward Allen Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Some xeons with a high core count compatible with the board below. Snag one off ebay. May end up with a small hit to viewport performance but should boost your rendering speed. Intel Xeon E5-2697A-v4 (2.6G,145W,L3:40M,16C,HT) Intel Xeon E5-2697-v3 (2.6G,145W,L3:35M,14C,HT) Intel Xeon E5-2697-v4 (2.3G,145W,L3:45M,18C,HT) Intel Xeon E5-2698-v3 (2.3G,135W,L3:40M,16C,HT) Intel Xeon E5-2698-v4 (2.2G,135W,L3:50M,20C,HT) Intel Xeon E5-2699-v3 (2.3G,145W,L3:45M,18C,HT) Intel Xeon E5-2699-v4 (2.2G,145W,L3:55M,22C,HT) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Dont upgrade your system. Continue to use it as your primary workstation. Save some more money, buy a Ryzen render node. You can thank me later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahwilliam1 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Absolutely you don't have to overhaul smash, PSU ought to be sufficient until further notice as well. GPU update could be fascinating decision, however whenever constrained to AMD just, and as a result of mining insane, there's very little to search for: both rx 580 and vega are costly and difficult to get. So all that is left is CPU and motherboard. In any case, since you can introduce even 8700K and for that I was perusing an article about the other day...I should uncover it for you... https://www.bestreviewslist.com/best-motherboard-for-i7-8700k/ I hope it helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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