Spec Me: FAST 3D Rendering Rigs (x2) £4.7K

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Trying to spec a system for a friends business but I don't know a lot about 3D rendering.

I need two 3D rendering desktops, one for a home and one for office. The office one is going to get most of the budget. She doesn't need monitors, wifi cards or software / operating system, just the case and everything inside. The machines will be used to render interior design scenes and furniture in Autocad. Both will be overclocked.

Rendering speed is high priority, the cases need to be either discreet or stylish, no glowing neon etc :p I asked her about quiet components but she would rather the budged is dedicated to power.

Office PC budget: £2400 - £2700.
Home office budget: £1600 - £2000
(both may be slightly flexible)

In summary (for both budgets) we need:

  • Powerful CPU
  • CPU FAN
  • Motherboard
  • Case
  • PSU
  • RAM 32GB+
  • GPU (Nvidia prefered)
  • DVD-RW
  • Internal Card Reader
  • 1TB Hdd.

Any help is very much appreciated :)
TIA
 
Office:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £449.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £335.99
2 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) £209.99 (£419.98)
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI332G186C0QK) £179.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £179.99
1 x OcUK Tech Labs - Lian Li PC-7HX - Black - Noise Dampened £119.99
1 x Seasonic G series 650w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £69.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/RSMS 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black/Silver/Biege) - Retail £22.99
Total : £1,951.46 (includes shipping : £10.50).



Home:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £335.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £239.99
2 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) £209.99 (£419.98)
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £158.99
1 x OcUK Tech Labs - Lian Li PC-7HX - Black - Noise Dampened £119.99
1 x Seasonic G series 650w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £99.98
2 x GeIL EVO Leggera 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL316GB1866C10DC) £79.99 (£159.98)
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £69.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/RSMS 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black/Silver/Biege) - Retail £22.99
Total : £1,700.46 (includes shipping : £10.50).

 
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i'll take a different approach and spec 2 that doesn't need you to build them either and will edit this when done.

ready built

1 x Intel Z77 Ivybridge 10500i Configurator - SILENT Gaming PC £1707.89


- Full Cable Management
- Corsair 2013 Edition Gamer Series GS 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020063-UK)
- Pioneer BDR-207EBK 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW 128GB - Retail
- Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001)
- Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD250BW) (remove this now and add revo card)
- KFA2 GeForce GTX 670 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card change to 4gb if needed but out of stock atm
- Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI316G160C9K) (change when ordering to 32gb can't auto select +£90) extra
- Asus P8Z77-V DELUXE Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
- Intel Liquid Cooling Solution CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011)
- Stage 4: Overclock of CPU/Memory - 25% Overclock (Proceesor speed x1.25 / Max Attainable RAM SPEED)
- Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail
- OcUK Tech Labs - Corsair C70 Case - Black - Noise Dampened Case
Total : £1,725.89 (includes shipping : £15.00).




+£249.98 total = £1975.87 price now will alter as raid and sdd's removed and revo card added instead, now looks untidy needs new spec sheet, but see at least where it's now going etc


1 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-080-OC revo card for C drive and 3tb for storage cached on raid 0 by the M/B selected
single card for one machine and maybe 4gb for other, price difference for a 4gb card would be a extra £666.70 on top, and maybe then i'd also change the psu to a 730 for an extra £30

ready built and over clocked for you, both noise dampened and liquid cooled so quite, 32gb of memory and a 2gb in one and a 4 gb card in the other, apart from that same spec

add 2x Akasa USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Memory Card Reader with eSATA (Internal header)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FL-012-AK&groupid=701&catid=1913&subcat=221

total cost about £4k ready built, talk to Sales and Order Enquries - 0871 200 5052 and they will sort you out if you need any more help or just ask in here

if you want a pro video then,

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18474229

talk to sale, they will advice which to have instead of ones on pre built selection

as you can see with my above link for pro cards, costs can be low to medium to your max budget for just a card, so will depend on how much you really need the top end and if your software supports its etc
 
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powned said:
Thanks trigger

Intel Core i7-3970X 3.50GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail [BX80619I73970X] £799.99

How would one of those be for the office PC? I don't want to go overkill but I've been the more power the better when rendering. Also I'm not sure how the GPU actually effects rendering.
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It's only slightly faster than the 3930k If I remember rightly also if the software supports cuda then it's worth looking at Quadro cards if its just for rendering etc... (Nvidia Cuda is found on there GPUs it can speed rendering times hugely)
 
for me with your budget, i'd go ready built, any spec given in here if you like it can also be ready built by overclockers and pre overclocked for you.

just pick your spec match it with your needs.

i added more storage, as tbh it's cheap and for CAD and 3D Rendering then a pair of raided sdd's will help , the mother board will auto cache the 3 tb storage drive as well, 1tb is a bit small for me and price isn't that much more.

video for pro cards i've edit above for you to look at link.

once you know or see what you like, you can always phone them here and they will phone back and talk with you about your needs and build and give dates and times etc before you order and finalize build and price, custom builds with good warranty, way better than off the shelf etc but costs a bit more than self build, but without the hassle.

and since its against tax anyway :)

anything you want to ask, just ask here or phone, either way if anyone can help they will
 
YOUR BASKET
2 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £455.99 (£911.98)
2 x OCZ RevoDrive3 240GB PCI-E SSD - (RVD3-FHPX4-240G) £299.99 (£599.98)
2 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660TI OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99 (£519.98)
2 x Asus P9X79 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £197.99 (£395.98)
2 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £99.98 (£199.96)
4 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £89.99 (£359.96)
2 x Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £76.99 (£153.98)
2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £72.98 (£145.96)
2 x Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler - Silver (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £66.98 (£133.96)
2 x LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99 (£39.98)
Total : £3,488.38 (includes shipping : £22.20).

 
In summary (for both budgets) we need:

RAM 32GB+
Internal Card Reader

Idleman need to add these then, revo for boot? great choice wish i had put that in now :(

revo is faster than 2 sdd's in raid 0 as well, keep for getting and you don't have the problem either of raid going down and loosing data :(

ah well will edit mine later :)
 
I agree with zakblood, go ready built or at least customised build by a brand reseller.

I recently bought 6 cad workstations of a certain brand

£1230 each
256mb Samsung SSD
nvdia Quadro 2000
16gb ram (you don't need 32gb in each machine)
Xeon E3-1245 (3.30GHz)
Win7 pro.

Autocad 2d work doesn't require much in the way of gpu power, but when rendering in 3d it obviously needs more.

When choosing a gpu bear in mind what you want from it, speed or precision? Gaming cards will give speed, but workstation cards will be give precision/accuracy in lines etc.
We use autocad 2013.
 
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12 CORES 24 THREADS

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD FirePro V7900 Professional Graphics Card - 2GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £584.99
1 x Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket C602 Chipset (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £459.98
1 x Samsung 512GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD512BW) £419.99
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620W 2.00GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £329.99 (£659.98)
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI332G160C9QK) £155.99
2 x Western Digital Caviar Red 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD20EFRX - OEM £89.99 (£179.98)
Total : £2,472.90 (includes shipping : £10.00).



6 CORES 12 THREADS

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD FirePro V7900 Professional Graphics Card - 2GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £584.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £449.99
1 x Asus P9X79 WS Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £319.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD250BW) £159.98
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI332G160C9QK) £155.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EFRX - OEM £69.98
Total : £1,752.92 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Add case and PSU, optical drives x 2

A bit OTT on storage drives option 1.

Option 1 does not overclock.
 
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h88p://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2620+%40+2.00GHz

and also,

h88p://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/344275-10-xeon-2620-intel-core-3930k-rendering-graphics

with 2 yes it quicker, one is way below, but as most software won't use the second cpu or all the cores it's a bit over the top maybe?

unless there's a reason i don't see?

and without knowing also the o/s in use or the rendering program as well in use, i can't check for support for cores or dual cpu usage etc so maybe wrong, it wouldn't be the first or last time tbh
 
nkata said:
12 CORES 24 THREADS

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD FirePro V7900 Professional Graphics Card - 2GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £584.99
1 x Asus Z9PE-D8 WS Dual Socket C602 Chipset (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £459.98
1 x Samsung 512GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD512BW) £419.99
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620W 2.00GHz (Socket 2011) - Retail £329.99 (£659.98)
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI332G160C9QK) £155.99
2 x Western Digital Caviar Red 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD20EFRX - OEM £89.99 (£179.98)
Total : £2,472.90 (includes shipping : £10.00).



6 CORES 12 THREADS

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD FirePro V7900 Professional Graphics Card - 2GB - GDDR5 SDRAM £584.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £449.99
1 x Asus P9X79 WS Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £319.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD250BW) £159.98
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI332G160C9QK) £155.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EFRX - OEM £69.98
Total : £1,752.92 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Add case and PSU, optical drives x 2

A bit OTT on storage drives option 1.

Option 1 does not overclock.
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Option 2 requires a cooler. :) so does the Xeon.
 
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The problem I see with this thread is the fact that a hefty budget has been posted, and the majority of people are specifying the most expensive components thinking that the most expensive equals the fastest.

I do recommend doing research as to which components are ideal and build around that. R088ieS86 posted a really insightful benchmark. According to that article, the Z77 performs marginally better than the X79.
 
x Intel Z77 Ivybridge 10500i Configurator - SILENT Gaming PC £1278.85 then extra added

- Full Cable Management
- Seasonic G series 650w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
- Pioneer BDR-207EBK 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW 128GB - Retail
- Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD (storage only) cached sdd
- Intel 330 Series 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail (boot only)
- GeIL EVO Veloce Hot-Rod Red 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01)
- MSI X79A-GD45 (8D) Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard
- Intel Liquid Cooling Solution CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011)
- Stage 4: Overclock of CPU/Memory - 25% Overclock (Proceesor speed x1.25 / Max Attainable RAM SPEED)
- Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail
- OcUK Tech Labs - Corsair Carbide 500R Midi-Tower Case - Black - Noise Dampened
- RevoDrive3 240GB PCI-E SSD work drive
- FirePro V5900 Professional Graphics Card - 2GB - GDDR5 SDRAM
-*Akasa USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Memory Card Reader with eSATA




times 2 :) still in budget :) and also changed m/b and cpu to latest sockets
 
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triggerthat said:
The problem I see with this thread is the fact that a hefty budget has been posted, and the majority of people are specifying the most expensive components thinking that the most expensive equals the fastest.

I do recommend doing research as to which components are ideal and build around that. R088ieS86 posted a really insightful benchmark. According to that article, the Z77 performs marginally better than the X79.
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6 cores and 12 threads aren't available on Z77.

At OP, it's pointless having an nVidia preference in this situation.

The GTX6 series aren't very good for compute performance anyway, so there's little point in getting one.
 
triggerthat said:
The problem I see with this thread is the fact that a hefty budget has been posted, and the majority of people are specifying the most expensive components thinking that the most expensive equals the fastest.

I do recommend doing research as to which components are ideal and build around that. R088ieS86 posted a really insightful benchmark. According to that article, the Z77 performs marginally better than the X79.
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one of the things to keep in mind though was that the requirement was 32gb of ram plus and x79 can support more ram, also it assumes gpu rendering, in the case of cpu rendering, the x79 with a 3930k will win every time by a mile.

the only time i've used my gpu for compute was in premier, and i was dissapointed with the gtx670, by the time things are transferred to vram and it gets going, my cpu would often have done the job, but i've read else where its performance is dissapointing in this regard, i got mine for gaming so non issue, and use my cpu for rendering as even if i could gpu render, i dont think i can buy a card with 64gb vram lol.
 
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zakblood said:
x Intel Z77 Ivybridge 10500i Configurator - SILENT Gaming PC £1278.85

- Full Cable Management
- TX750V2 Bronze CP-9020042-UK for S.I.
- Pioneer BDR-207EBK 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW 128GB - Retail
- Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD
- Intel 330 Series 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail
- GeIL EVO Veloce Hot-Rod Red 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01)
- Asus P8Z77-V PRO Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
- Intel Liquid Cooling Solution CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011)
- Stage 4: Overclock of CPU/Memory - 25% Overclock (Proceesor speed x1.25 / Max Attainable RAM SPEED)
- Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail
- OcUK Tech Labs - Corsair Carbide 500R Midi-Tower Case - Black - Noise Dampened





not done yet, still editing it :)
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It doesn't matter how good a pre-built PC is, a self build will always be better value.
 
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