Need help choosing the right hardware for my PC
laurentquenon
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Hello,
I would need your advice to choose a new config:
Now I have an i5 9400F, 16Gb of RAM and a GeForce GTX 1050 with 2Gb of RAM ... So, obviously, it's not great for using Daz Studio correctly (the renderings are very very very slow).
I plan to increase the PC's RAM to be 32Gb, to take an i9 9900K processor but, for the video card, I don't know ... I had thought of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 ARMOR 6G OC.
I don't know if I'm making the right choice, maybe it's better to have a less efficient processor than the i9 but a better video card ... what I do know is that I have a budget of € 1,000 for updating my PC, so any advice to help me make the right choice is welcome.
Thank you
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You don't need the CPU upgrade for DS. RAM won't help much either.
For 1000 euros I'd look at the RTX cards, specifically either the 2070 super or 2080 super. They both have 8Gb VRAM and lots of CUDA so you would have a massive increase in render times compared to the 1050.
I second that. I recently purchased a new pc.
I have Ryzen 3600x and Nvidia 2070 Super.
With a simple scene, a CPU render will take about 30 minutes.
Same scene with GPU takes about 3 minutes.
So GPU matters a lot more than CPU.
For me 2070 super was best price/performance video card.
I also have DAZ and all its products installed on a SSD, not sure if that helps (maybe taking the textures faster?).
Loading a scene from the drive takes a few seconds at most. Yopu might shave a second or two off a render with all your assets on SSD. You will get faster loading times when loading a scene for editing though (but not crazy fast as there is more going on in loading a scene than just reading files).
And I think I know the one place where a CPU is important in DAZ: calculating DForce. So if you plan on using that quite a lot, especially if you want to do animations with it, it might matter some.
dForce uses OpenCL, which is provided by most GPUs (certainly from nVidia and AMD). Intel CPUs can be used for dForce, I don't believe it is possible currently with AMD CPUs.
Maybe that's why my dforce is somewhat slow, having AMD CPU.
Well, I was completely wrong ...
Thank you for your comments, otherwise I would have invested in the processor in priority (with my i5 and my GTX1050, when I render the CPU is used at 99% and the GPU not at all ...)
I will take an RTX 2080 without replacing the CPU (but I will also increase the RAM because 16Gb it seems limited to me)
What GPU do you have?
ASUS 2070 super
Check the dForce settings to make sure the 2070 is selected for openCL
I didn't know about it but I checked now and it is selected. It is the only option.
I want to mention that the long dForce times were for hair not clothing. Maybe because it has so many strands, it is supposed to be long?
Hair takes a long time, much longer than single items of clothing IME.
I think I'm going to order a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 Super Gaming OC 8G, but I still have a quick question;
Will my PSU be enough or will I change it? It is a Corsair CX500 (500W) ...
Depending on everything else you have in your PC it might be enough but it's at the limit in my opinion.
You should read about power consumption and make sure, I am unfortunately not an expert on that, to be on the safe side I went with a 850W one (to also support maybe a second card in the future).
It will be close. the i5 is rated at 65W, the 2070 base is 215W, ~10W for the chipset and fans, 2 8Gb RAM sticks is 6W. So that's 300W without any HDD's, RGB or anything else in the system.
It would most likely work, if you do not overclock anything. However I think the PSU wouldn't last very long.
A 650W 80+ Gold PSU (more than enough for your system unless you intend to add a second GPU) is around $80. If you can swing that now or in the next few months you'd probably be happier.
You won't regret the larger VRAM on the 2070 if you start creating detailed scenes. Though a 500W PSU meets spec for your hardware, I would recommend giving yourself a bigger buffer. I personally use a 750W PSU, but I have two 1070's in tandem. I also recommend a modular PSU. It makes cable routing much nicer.
I am not an expert in electricity, but I think that what must consume a lot are the hard drives ... and as there are 6 in this PC, I also think that replacing the PSU actually seems to be a good idea ...
It is true that it is not very expensive and as I will not replace the CPU, I remain within my budget.
The Corsair RM750 80 Plus Gold will be fine