Rendering pc - spec check and questions

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Hi all! A friend's asked me to pull together a PC for them, mainly for use with 3ds max, so I've done some digging and built this spec:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,127.75 (includes shipping: £15.90)​
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I'm planning on presenting this as a base system with options to move on some of the other components (more/less storage, more standard case, potentially moving up to threadripper, though I'm not entirely convinced the uplift in cost would be reflected in the increased performance, though it would futureproof the system more). However, my main question was actually on the subject of the ram. As I read it, the motherboard only supports up to 2666mhz without overclocking it? What does this actually mean? The 2700x supports up to 3600mhz, which the ram is, so this differentiation just threw me off a little.

And final question, from reading around, 3ds max does a lot of its work using directx now, meaning a 1080 is a better option than going for a workstation quadro, even if it's not officially supported, right? I don't want to spend that much on a graphics card that isn't going to perform well, but the same applies to buying a quadro card that isn't really needed for something that doesn't require the increased precision.

Thanks in advance!
 
Yeah, I'm going to offer that as a 'You could spend an extra £x to get a much more powerful cpu', but the 1900x doesn't seem to be worth the £75 uplift in cpu cost alone, so you'd really want to drop more for the higher core counts.

TR2 is due next month, right? I'll see if he's able to hold off for that, since that would probably be a better leap from ryzen 2.
 
Thanks for the replies. It's going to be a business PC, mostly running 3ds max and zbrush.

After chatting with him, he's expressed interest in TR2 so I'm going to wait for that, and that he's happy to increase his budget if needed to get a solid foundation for his work, though he's also told me that he'd rather have a Quadro card than a Geforce, as apparently he had issues in the past with using a card that wasn't technically supported.

Obviously, there's a far slimmer selection of Quadro cards to go for, and benchmarks seem to be pretty lacking. Looking online you can find higher end Kepler cards going for similar prices as much lower end Pascal based cards, but it's pretty hard to tell if this is actually a good deal or not!
And finally, as a side note, am I correct in simply writing off the firepro? I'd go AMD 90% of the time in a gaming build, but don't most professional applications use CUDA rather than openCL, somewhat limiting the use for firepro cards?

Thanks again!
 
Hmm, Store MI does seem extremely useful. I was originally planning on the intel M2 PCI-E as a boot and main program drive, a regular SATA SSD for fast storage and then a handful of 7200 drives for mass storage. But looking at Store MI, would that be able to essentially combine all those together, even the M2 drive? And what does this do to the lifespan of the M2 drive?

Cheers
 
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