Advice on improving PC performance for 3D renders

HackneyPaul

HackneyPaul

HackneyPaul

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Hi,

I have a gaming PC I bought for VR and am also wanting to use it for 3D rendering in programs like Sketchup. It runs fine for VR but when I get the apps to process complex 3D renders - it's pretty slow. Any advice on what I can bolt on or swap to make the biggest improvement in performance for price?

The spec is:

Titan Virtual Force VR Gaming PC - Intel Core i5 6600K @ 4.5GHz, Nvidia GeForce GTX 980Ti 6GB5
  • Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor -OEM
  • Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz
  • Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1
  • GX-182-GI Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 "Founders Edition" 8192MB GDDR5X
  • PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1080D5X-8G
  • Samsung PM951 128GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive
  • Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM
  • Asus Z170-E Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
  • Alpenföhn Matterhorn Black CPU Cooler

Thanks in advance!

/Paul
 
Thanks - I believe Sketchup is single threaded (Not techie enough to really understand what impact that has)

The other app is Vectorworks which is also single threaded I think.
 
I doubt you'd see a worthwhile improvement going from a 6700k to a newer processor, not enough to warrant the upgrade anyway. 9900k is what 15% faster?

Are you overclocked at the moment? Your SSD is quite small, perhaps add one in so you're never working from your mechanical disk?
 
I think you need to investigate your slow down more rather than speculating.

Why not use task manager to monitor what's getting used the most when it's slowing down ? You can click it to a minimal look that summarises CPU, RAM, GPU, HDD, etc.

Would give you a starter for 10. No point spending the money on the wrong thing.
 
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