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Wow AgitatedRiot, Your system would be an excellent Carrara rendering Monster!!!
Not trying to twist your arm at all - DS rocks! But that 10/20 core i9 @ 3.60GHz would tear through renders really well!!!
And that system spec is also an excellent example of the whole Desktop vs Laptop thing.
First off, that CPU is a Monster!!! Giving it a nice airy tower will keep that thing happy and fast.
Second, in the CG/VFX/Filmmaker world, it's well known that your GTX 3060 will blow away the mobile version of that same chip - which is why the makers of VFX/Filmmaker hardware came up with the brilliant idea of making those amazing external GPU towers you mentioned earlier.
Always being without much (if any) of a budget, I built mine myself - and I'm glad I've discovered the wonders of doing such a thing.
After my first PC build, I now always opt for a tower that has filtered intake ports for the fans. Keeps the innards nice and clean, which keeps the fans on the internals from failing for much, Much longer.
Just before I hit the "Check Out" button on my components (and this happens every time - so I make sure to check) there was a sale on my RAM, so it was just peanuts to double my 32GB to 64GB.
Newegg gives us multiple wishlists, so I make several 'builds', each in their own wishlist, and I keep tweaking these as I save up the funds for the purchase. This helps in my research to make sure I'm getting good, durable parts that can hold up to the rigors I put my machine through.
Pretty much the Only reason I even want to use a computer is to work on this CG/VFX art - so I take those needs before anything else when building.
I often go for AMD processors simply because of financial reasons, but they've been an amazing experience. Those "i" series Intel chips are extraordinary - especially that i9 you've got there!
To really get my build cost down to something I can actually buy, I have to turn to "Yesterday's Great", which can be tough with all of the new tech coming round just at the time I'm doing this, so I'm often two generations of CPU behind the times at the time I order because a new generation is almost always just about to be released.
My second gen Ryzen 7 Octacore (hyper to 16 threads) has been a real delight! It was upgrading an eight core without the ability to hyperthread, so I doubled my Carrara render buckets. At the time of that previous build, DAZ_Spooky (remember him?) and I both built our towes at the same time - he got the newest, high-end AMD Zambezi (was different than current Zambezi), while I got the least expensive 8 core offering. We were both very tickled with what these CPU could do with Carrara's render engine!
Right now I'm going to go prepare a scene to render and save it, so that when the AgitatedRiot RTX 2060 arrives, the first thing I'll do is to enable the RTX function on OctaneRender and let this baby fly!
I also thought you should know that I have taken extra measures with my tower to ensure that your baby stays cool, healthy and happy for her whole life!
Cheers, and Happy Rendering!!!
I built mine from scratch also, I have been since the late 80s. I'm an A+ certified tech Since 2010. I studied Network+, and Securty+ all this on my own. Since I always buy OEM Windows, I'm my own tech support. I have many flavors of windows from 3x to Win10. I built countless custom rigs systems for CEOs of corporations. Who wanted to avoid going home. I also had many flavors of the Linux system also.
Very Cool!!! Wow, that's impressive!
I own (but am no expert at any) all Windows from the last version of DOS before Window 3 through Win 10 Home except for Vista and the Pro or Server versions. Everyone hated ME, but I loved that they put thumbnails in the folders! :)
I have a tiny netbook that has my first ever Linux attempt - Lubuntu, which is pretty fun. It's my little media center that I fall asleep to! LOL
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This thing is So Different (in all the right ways) with Iray! Faster, Better, and Faster and Better!!!
Title:
AgitatedRiot RTX 2060 Appreciation Render
I Love It!!! Thank You So Much!!!
I'm still relatively new at rendering with Iray or any GPU renderer, but it feels to me like nVidia developed RTX and Iray with/for one another, because there are a lot less little quirks with this card compared to the GTX 1660
In OctaneRender I went into the System panel and enabled "RTX Acceleration" and ran it using valzheimer's High render settings preset and left the samples at 10,000 and went down to get a bite to eat. I was quick too, because I wanted to watch the progress. Well... it was done when I got back!
Oh AgitatedRiot, Thank You So Much!!!
I remember my first laptop you load dos with 1 floppy and ran Lotus on with another I'm sure it weighed 20 pounds
I still have the first color laptop - a Zenith. It came with DOS but was upgraded by my brother (who gave it to me) to Win 3.1, which is how I have those DOS and Win 3.1 floppies still. Eight colors! It's also been upgraded to 4mb RAM and can still go another 4mb to its Max of 8 megabytes!!! LOL
Yeah... it's at Least 20#!!!
I onlt had a Colecovision Adam, which ran on cassette tapes and the brain of the computer was housed within the manual printer! LOL I bet that thing could type a whopping 10 words per minute!!!
My next computer didn't come until 1997, when my brother set me up with a Windows 95 machine. I had to upgrade the HDD to 1GB to run the HP software that came with the printer. Back then the only thing I did with it was to make dungeon tiles for D&D using MS Paint - pixel-by-pixel.
The next printer I got came with Microsoft PictureIt! graphics software, which changed my world!
My bass player's son (now top-dog modeler for Sony Online Entertainment) was still in highschool and needed Photoshop for the game he was building, so he gave his PaintShop Pro 5 license to me. Anither game changer!!!
Now I use Project Dowaffle Pro - Howler... a Real Game Changer!!! And Affinity Photo, since Adobe went subscription-only. "Elements" doesn't have the much needed (for me) HDRI Merge functions unlocked. Affinity Photo is only $50, has had quite a few full-feature upgrades since then (Free) and includes all the bells and whistles, but doesn't have animation - I use Hoowler for making animated texture maps, editing animated renders, creating VFX, etc.,
well I certainly appreciate it
Hot young Dart had awesome hair by looks unless hot young Rosie was dating his brother/cousin
Good render Dartenbeck.
I've already sold my laptop for the minimum I was asking for so I'm happy with that. 1/3 of the way to my RTX 3060 Laptop! I have to thank you AgitatedRiot for getting my interested in RTX GPUs again. I had completely blown them off until Spring 2022 until this thread. So I've a realistic plan now to get one & I'll have one before 2022...
I would like to say I am a Windows expert but I am not. I have done almost 100% of my programming and systems administrator career on various UNIX systems using C and a handful of interpreted scripting languages. What I have done programming-wise in Windows I've liked well enough, but I really don't plan to go full throttle at it until another 6 - 12 months from now. I'd get back into UNIX but I particularly don't want to work for DoD contractors or business back offices again as if would involve moving to extremely expensive urban areas with extremely long commute times, so that's that. It was fun while it lasted but it's time to move on.
I think I might be allergic to programming! LOL
I've been away room for about a year nice to be back: I have a core i9 GeForce 2080, DDR4, 64 Gigs RAM, SSD, Liquid cooling systen. 2T added is a 24T Server Synology DS920+ for back up. I find that DAZ Studio requires a lot of power when rendering, and if you don't have it you will destroy your systen when trying to render that image from a 3D Settings. you must have at lease 25 to 30 gigs of ram a core I7 or I9.That is my opinion and my experience.
This AgitatedRiot RTX 2060 6GB totally rips compared to the previous 6GB GTX 1660 I was just running.
dForce seems faster, OctaneRender (with RTX acceleration enabled) renders my animations much, Much faster! Iray actually works now! If I keep my scene limited to less than 6GB, this RTX just Rocks out renders! I mean, I've been rendering my animations using Andrey Pestryakov's 1500 render settings that are included in his products, like Temple Cave - which uses Spectral, Post Denoise and iterations set to 1,500. I can't believe the difference!
Before anyone beats the crap out of me for that last post, of course I do realize that higher-end cards, namely higher-end RTX with more GDDR will definitely have even more. But what I'm saying is that the difference between these two cards with the same amount of video card RAM is uncanny!
For animations (or even stills), the trick to GPU RAM limits is to try and think like an ILM or Weta Digital (etc.,) VFX artist - work one important layer at a time.
Basically, we can build out the full scene if we want, but stopping to render with fewer elements will be even more beneficial. Here's a quick example:
In my current scenes for Rosie and the Winter Wolf,
This sort of workflow adds many elements of quality that are far more difficult to achieve in single renders with everything present because of many reasons - one being the control one has over each layer (individual render). Another being that it takes a Lot less time to get each render to turn out as needed because the other elements aren't there to add extra drag on the render process, which is already working harder than the average human works in several full years without a break. Yet another is that the indviduality of each rendered layer means for less-to-no masking/rotoscoping to apply color grades or other effects to individual scene elements. Another being that the savings in time can allow us to render at higher resolutions while still keeping decent render times... and I can keep going on the benefits here.
Disadvantages can be just as many - especially when first getting into such a workflow, like the fact that we'll need to plan our shots much like a filmmaker Director, working with a CG VFX supervisor to make sure that each layer fits as they should. It takes practice, but in my experience, the time practicing is also a huge benefit to our work in the end.
It's a real bummer that the VFX for Guerrilla Filmmakers course, by Norwich University wasn't more popular through FutureLearn.
I learned a Lot in that course and was anticipating further education through the same channels - but even that course (I believe) was cancelled.
VFX for Filmmakers is a great subject to get into for learning tricks on fulfilling your rendering needs since that's what they (ILM, Weta, Blur, etc., VFX houses) are doing to create the need for all of this technology to trickle down into our computers via Daz 3d, Max, Maya, Blender, etc., etc.,
On a similar note, Digital Lighting and Rendering, by Jeremy Birn* is an incredible book at creating a better understanding toward getting top results efficiently. I'm certainly not boasting my own art, for I still consider myself a newbie/part-timer, since my manual labor job keeps me away from my computer and, hence CG work for most of my week. But what I am claiming is that, by following these sorts of resources while dropping one's own glamour toward one's own skill level (very important in order to learn anything with being too arrogant) we can really learn a lot of great ways to work with what we Do have to great strides in art improvement!
*Jeremy is an actual cinematographer, both behind the lens (film) as well as digital rendering, and also teaches college courses on these subjects. The book has a Lot to absorb, which really helps to open one's eyes on becoming a digital art photographer/cinematographer - aka a Render Artist!
Today I offer up 2 matched sets of Patriot Viper 4 Blackout Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 4400 (PC4 35200)
That ought to make someone happy!
Yea, I'll leave it here a few days then post it on the general forums.
If you stick different speeds of memory in a machine it defaults to the lowest speed of the memory chip you have in your system.
No, but the size & speed has to matrh in the 2 slots in each bank. If you have 2 banks it's 2 slots in each in most desktop MBs in which you can have 2 different sizes is in each 2 bank but the sizes have to match in the slots that are in a bank. If the speeds are different in the 2 banks than the computer does the slower speed.
eg: I have 2x16GB in 2 slots on one bank and my motherboard could use the 2x8GB AgitatedRiot is offered in the other bank and I'd have 48GB RAM in 2 banks of 4 slots.*
* Thanks AgitatedRiot but my computer does fine with 32GB.
Note: not true of every computer on the planet so you need to read the manual for your motherboard.
Wow, this makes you sound bitter. I'm not offering 16gbs it's 32gbs 4 sticks of 8mbs. I am from the old school when memory had to match. So I always use matched sets. The not true for every motherboard is correct. Just wondering why anyone would mix match memory.
Very generous of you
You'll make someone very happy, I'm sure :D Good luck folks!
Edit: I need to learn to check dates before I post. LMAO. Congrats to the person that got it! LOL
They want someone to need them.
I was once a starving orphan child that wanted someone to need them. This is a true fact. Someone with a system to support orphaned memory chips would be nice.
You are amazingly generous and I'm glad the card went to someone who truly appreciates it. Makes me feel good to actually see some good being done these days. Frankly, a couple of people in this discussion ought to pipe down and not find fault where there is none.
I just found this thread, didn't know about these generous offers till now. I don't think my computer could handle the card Dartenbeck won and congratulations on that win.
I am currently happy with the newer computer I recently was gifted, an intel i5 and 32 gigs of ram and a 650 Nvidia graphics card. Considering my old computer was a 15 yr old quad core with 4 gigs of ram and a radeon graphics card, it's a big jump up and all because of a very generous forum member, much like yourself.