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bloodiedathame

bloodiedathame

bloodiedathame

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I'm a video editor/motion graphics artist (2D, 2.5D and 3D) by trade, and work quite a lot from home.

I currently use a Mid 2010 MBP i7 for most of my work. It's surprisingly good when it needs to be, but 3D work is quite painful.

I run an N54L with Freenas as a home server to store all my family photos, videos, ripped DVDs and TV shows etc.

And I have a Mac Mini hooked up to my TV for web browsing, backup of the NAS (Crashplan) and running Plex server.

So I sort of have 3 machines, when really, I could just do with one.

I was thinking about selling everything and doing a 6700k/5820k/4790k build with a 980, running some WD reds on it for NAS/Plex stuff... Does that seem sensible?
 
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Yup, good idea. I'd go 5820K for your uses to be honest. Why the 980 though? Surely a 980ti would be better bang/buck with 2816 CUDA cores vs 2048 for the vanilla 980. If you're spending big (and you seem to be), why not get the best?
 
Don't tend to use much CUDA in AE (it seems to rely mostly on single core clock speed these days, and isn't great at multiprocessing). C4D the 3D package I use, uses CPU for rendering (though GPU renderers eg Octane are available). Of course I'd be throwing the odd game at it. ;) A 980 might even be overkill.
 
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