Suggestions for PC part upgrades? Hardware savvy people please.
billyrosco
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I want Daz to be less-taxing on my system, though with bigger projects, this seems to be difficult in my current setup. I'm talking about rendering environments, multiple figures, clothing, lights, etc.
Right now, I have an NVIDIA GTX 1060 GPU, Intel Core i5-7500 @3.40GHz, and 16gb of RAM.
Render times aren't AWFUL, considering I try to render at dimensions of 3200 or above. What should I consider upgrading first, do you think?
Thanks very much!
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Everyt6hing depends on budget. A better GPU is the first priority. If you get a card with more than 8Gb of VRAM you'll also need more system RAM.
You also need to make sure your power supply can handle more than the 1060.
Yeah, I agree with kenshaw. The i5-7500 is plenty of cpu, I upgraded my i5-7500 to a ryzen 2600x, and I kinda regret it and wish I put all my money into GPU. The only real world use it has made a difference on is compressing things. Like saving a 8k png in photoshop used to take a few minutes, now it takes around a minute.
As they said it all depends on your budget, I had a 1060 6Gb anditsa amazing card, trouble is since you wanna work with bigger scenes you gonna need more VRAM, and beyond 6Gb things get pricey.
I Got me a EVGA 2070 XC and the extra 2 Gbs help a lot, but more than anything most of my render times went down by close to 50%. As kenshaw said, more RAM helps with the scene handling while you are biulding it, and be shure that your PSU can handle your system.
My current build:
As others have said: upgrade the GPU, then RAM if you need more. I'd also make sure your PSU can handle the GPU you want to put in your system.
I should also point out that it is possible, although until it actually happens I'll be skeptical, that the next release version of DS may support VRAM pooling on Volta and Turing cards through NVlink.
If this does happen you'd be bale to buy a card as inexpensive, relatively, as the base 2070 and get up to around 15Gb for rendering. However as I've said I'm withholding recommending anything until it actually happens.
Hard to say "first"... The i5 is sort-of your biggest bottleneck. I would suggest getting at-least a newer model i7 or a decent i9, or an AMD of similar price to the i7, will be close to an i9.
However, that, in almost all cases, will translate into the need for a new motherboard and possibly RAM, as both are sort-of tied to the CPU of choice and your older RAM may not actually function in the newer systems that will demand a certain type or speed for memory.
Though, honestly, if you put that same money into a second card and turned-off CPU rendering, you would not be burdened much. You have enough ram to use a card with 8GB, without filling your RAM and falling-over into virtual-memory. However, a decent 11GB or 12GB card, with 32GB of RAM, would be better than upgrading your whole motherboard and CPU. If your current power-supply can handle it.
*Sigh*, the i5 is not the bottleneck, even though i'm an AMD user, the i5 is fine. Move on from there ( i was rendering with an FX 8350 and my bottleneck was always RAM and VRAM)
Upgrade your video card, then upgrade your RAM.
DS is primarily single threaded so the i5 7500 is more than fine for DS.