Rendering build advice

arlonis

arlonis

arlonis

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Hey everyone!

I'm building a workstation focused on rendering performance. Could you help me with that? I'm thinking to go with a threadripper 7980x, from what I saw has an amazing performance in corona renderer (https://benchmark.chaos.com/corona/v10/scores?index=1&order=desc&by=rays&my-scores-only=false), I need at least 128gb, more would be good but not essential.

Budget: £8.000 a bit more / a bit less
Use: Rendering / 3ds max / Corona render / Photoshop

thank you!
 
Hi and welcome.


£4500 for that CPU and £700 at least for the motherboard how much ram you thinking and does any of your software use the GPU ?.
 
Hi!

I need 128 GB RAM and 3ds max uses GPU for viewport purposes. I have an RTX 3080 today, would be nice to have something a bit stronger.
If the budget is off, I can go higher.

Thank you!

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arlonis said:
Hi!

I need 128 GB RAM and 3ds max uses GPU for viewport purposes. I have an RTX 3080 today, would be nice to have something a bit stronger.
If the budget is off, I can go higher.

Thank you!

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Nvidia 5000 series GPU are due for release in January so I would definitely wait for that.

Storage pcie5 m2 ? Size.

Memory you want rdimm so you want to check the certified list for which board you get.

7980x
ASUS Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI
128gb rdimm memory motherboard qvl list.
Storage ?
GPU 5090/5080
PSU 1200w min ATX 3.0
360mm aio
Eatx case
 
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mickyflinn said:
Nvidia 5000 series GPU are due for release in January so I would definitely wait for that.

Storage pcie5 m2 ? Size.

Memory you want rdimm so you want to check the certified list for which board you get.

7980x
ASUS Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI
128gb rdimm memory motherboard qvl list.
Storage ?
GPU 5090/5080
PSU 1200w min ATX 3.0
360mm aio
Eatx cas
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thank you!

I did some research here and came up with something, please let me know what you think, I would wait then for the 5080.

  • CPU: AMD Threadripper 7980X
  • CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte TRX50 AERO D Motherboard REV 1.2
  • Memory: G.SKILL Zeta R5 NEO Series (AMD Expo) DDR5 RAM 192GB (4x48GB) 6400MT/s
  • Storage: 2x Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (MZ-V7S2T0)
  • GPU: ASUS ProArt -RTX4080S-O16G NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 16 Go GDDR6X
  • Case: Fractal Design North XL Full Tower E ATX Gaming PC Case Chalk White
  • PSU: Corsair HX1500i (1500W)
 
arlonis said:
thank you!

I did some research here and came up with something, please let me know what you think, I would wait then for the 5080.

  • CPU: AMD Threadripper 7980X
  • CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte TRX50 AERO D Motherboard REV 1.2
  • Memory: G.SKILL Zeta R5 NEO Series (AMD Expo) DDR5 RAM 192GB (4x48GB) 6400MT/s
  • Storage: 2x Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (MZ-V7S2T0)
  • GPU: ASUS ProArt -RTX4080S-O16G NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 16 Go GDDR6X
  • Case: Fractal Design North XL Full Tower E ATX Gaming PC Case Chalk White
  • PSU: Corsair HX1500i (1500W)
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Your welcome

The Samsung 970 evo plus are only pcie3 you want at least pcie4 like the Samsung 990 evo plus or the western digital sn850x.

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Cooling the 7980x (340w) when fully loaded the nochtua is one of the best air coolers but I personally would go for a 360mm aio which tends to handle the temps better if the CPU is stressed over a long period.


Wouldn't bother with the 4080 super would just put the money into a 5090.

The rest of the build looks solid.
 
I'm going to throw a curve ball suggestion into the mix.... don't go with just 1 pc, get 2 pc's instead.

There's a reason for my suggestion. CPU based rendering can take an age at high resolutions and will essentially stop you from using that pc to do anything else, if you have 2 pc's you can render on one and then do something else on the other, or depending on your needs use both for rendering.

If you're looking to spend 8K on hardware then the saying 'time is money' is likely to be a thing for you when it comes to producing the renders.
 
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