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Suggestions sought on buying a new PC build

JoltrastJoltrast Posts: 199
edited May 2019 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Uses/Requirements:
iRay rendering (pretty much exclusively). (iRay friendly nVidia GPU with CUDA)
Fast rendering and iRay previews.
dForce / LAMH and fibermesh.
Large scenes - print size.
Simple animation.

I don't have a budget in mind, and could potentially go grazy.

Presently my current machine is starting to show it's age. I got it shortly before iRay came out.
It doesn't handle dForce at all well. It renders pretty slow too.

I spoke to one of the DAZ vendors and their rigs look like the following (if this helps)
i7/i9 AIO (Assume the AIO is some kind of cooler?)
Samsung 960 Pro
64GB RAM
GTX Titan + 1080Ti / 2080Ti + 1080Ti

My current rig :
Win 7 / 64Bit
i7-4770K @ 350GHz
16GB RAM
Radeon HD 7700 (the current MB will take two cards, I just never got around to it)
Intel HD 4600
Western Digital 2000GB / 2TB SATA HDD

Ideas and suggestions very much appreciated
Thanks in advance.

 

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Comments

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    I'm not familiar with Look At My Hair's needs so I'll aim for a good system for Daz.

    I'd avoid intel CPU's right now. They're overpriced for their performance. Unless you absolutely need more than 8 cores and 16 threads you should be fine with the Ryzen 7 2700 and an air cooler meant for it, including the stock cooler that comes with it if you don't intend to overclock it. AIO means All In One and is a water cooler that is pre assembled. I'm not a fan and some recent esting has indicated they do not cool better than air coolers.

    You would want a SSD of some sort for your boot drive and for programs. You'd also want one or more big storage HDD for 3d assets and for storage of scenes and WIP, SSD's large enough for these purposes get very expensive or simply aren't available.

    RAM greatly depends on the GPU's you install, you'll want at least double the amount of VRAM on your GPU's.

    For poster type scenes you are very limited on your GPU choices. The 2080ti might work but it might not. I have a 1080ti which has the same amount of VRAM and have to take steps to reduce texture sizes to get big scenes to render on the card which might not be acceptable for print work. From there your choices are the RTX Titan and the RTX Quadro 5000, 6000 or 8000

  • JoltrastJoltrast Posts: 199

    Should I just change out the GPUs (buy two new ones) and up the RAM, or would I be better off building from scratch?

  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    You'd almost certainly need a new PSU in addition to RAM and GPU's. If you're up to that there is little reason to not do that if all yopu're interested in is Iray rendering.

  • JoltrastJoltrast Posts: 199
    kenshaw011267 said:

    You'd almost certainly need a new PSU in addition to RAM and GPU's. If you're up to that there is little reason to not do that if all yopu're interested in is Iray rendering.

    Thanks.
    Anyone else have advice for a rig capable of rendering scenens large enough to print please? My budget is flexible. Thanks.

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