Spec me an Animators Workstation
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This 100%! And get GTX card over the Quadro to save some momey, the GTX's perform very well.
You ahould be looking at a Seasonic/superflower/Evga PSU over Corsair offerings as they're not a great OEM anymore.
I have tried but the price is a lot higher and there are fewer options to chose from --> https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-225-OP&groupid=2439&catid=2527
I cannot select different PSUs and the SSDs will be stuck in RAID 0. What I will do is email them this spec and see if they can do anything
Which GTX are you recommending?
What other power supplies can you choose, only Corsair ones? RMi are also CWT, not to say they are bad but you can do better
Currently I only have those 2 to chose from
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Agree, GTX Titan over the Quadro 4200
I've just built a:
5920K on X99, with 32gb ram, 512GB m.2 SSD and GTX 980
and its reduced the time it took to do a render in sketchup from 1 hour on a:
xeon E3-1245, 16gb ram, 256GB ssd, Quadro 2000
...........to 6 mins.
I spoke to quite a few 3d type vendors before getting OCUK to build me this rig.
Most said GTX over Quadro nowadays as they are so much more stable than they used to be and cuda cores and vram count for a lot.
I've just built a:
5920K on X99, with 32gb ram, 512GB m.2 SSD and GTX 980
and its reduced the time it took to do a render in sketchup from 1 hour on a:
xeon E3-1245, 16gb ram, 256GB ssd, Quadro 2000
...........to 6 mins.
I spoke to quite a few 3d type vendors before getting OCUK to build me this rig.
Most said GTX over Quadro nowadays as they are so much more stable than they used to be and cuda cores and vram count for a lot.
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Surely if this is a work rig, and work are buying there is an expectation for a service contract, in which case one of the big resellers based in Ireland / slough and one of the workstation spec machines complete with three year on site 4hr response pro support warranties might be in order.
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I would opt for air cooling the CPU rather than AIO, As this is a work machine you want to minimise the fallout. One of the large Noctua heatsinks will out perform the AIO anyways.
(This should help with reducing CPU trottle when you are rendering.)
(This should help with reducing CPU trottle when you are rendering.)
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Tbh I wouldn't get to caught up about the core system, your doing a lot of design and print worth in which I case I would prioritise the monitor over anything else
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/AutoDesk-Maya-2014-Professional-GPU-Acceleration-509/
Just reading this, the Titan GTX is really badly rated for MAYA but the cheaper AMD cards are out performing the NVIDIAs
Just reading this, the Titan GTX is really badly rated for MAYA but the cheaper AMD cards are out performing the NVIDIAs
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Those Noctua's are good a cooling but I'm not a fan of putting all that weight on the CPU socket. I have a Asaka Nero cooling a Q6700 for a few years and when I took out the motherboard it had warped under the strain caused by the weight of a mid sized cooler. As a result I would never go back to large ass heatsinks, AIO's are a smaller and more elegant solution and give you the best results bar dedicated custom water.
I wouldn't trust a performance chart created by a company who are trying to sell you 'workstation' cards. The spec benches are not really relevant to today's viewports. As I said before, Maya is pushing viewport 2 in a big way which is opengl/directx11.
That said the amd cards do get you decent viewport performance, but you lose the benefit of cuda.
How much of a benefit is CUDA?
most of the adobe suite can be accelerated with cuda, and if you're looking at rendering a lot of frames it could be very useful for rendering - mental ray now has a gpu-accelerated gi, most of the current crop of gpu-renderers use cuda right now. I'm using redshift3d which has cut rendering times drastically with a couple of titans.
i pretty confident now on everything but the graphics card now, OCUK are contacting me Monday to go through their recommendations and pricing.
For the first year we will certainly be rendering directly from Maya but after that we may use other software like keyshot (i like it and have it on the Mac).
I will see what OCUK say between the fire pro, Quadro or Titan as currently that is the choice:
NVIDIA K4200 Quadro
AMd Firerpro W7100
Geforce Titan ??? (any idea which one i should be looking at around the same pricing?)
For the first year we will certainly be rendering directly from Maya but after that we may use other software like keyshot (i like it and have it on the Mac).
I will see what OCUK say between the fire pro, Quadro or Titan as currently that is the choice:
NVIDIA K4200 Quadro
AMd Firerpro W7100
Geforce Titan ??? (any idea which one i should be looking at around the same pricing?)
Times change, I highly doubt a modern motherboard will give in due to a heavy cooler. Only risk of that is if the system is being moved around a lot which I doubt is the case here. Also an AIO isn't going to be quiet as an air cooler either which might be a priority if a lot of rendering is going to be carried out. So I don't see much reason to go with an AIO solution in this scenario and most workstation builds are air cooled anyway
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Most of the Adobe suite doesn't use CUDA, it uses OpenGL or OpenCL to accelerate preformance.