Hubby wants to upgrade his main system. He uses this mainly to do 3d rendering using Octane renderer/Blender.
At the moment he has got:
Asus P5K wifi deluxe
Q6600
8gb ram
Nvidia 460gtx (processing 3d) and Nvidia 8800GTS (driving monitor)
At the moment when he renders it sounds like a jet engine taking off and I fear the computer is just about to blow up!
What he would like is:
Intel I7 Sandybridge
Asus P8 H67 Motherboard
16gb Ram
Nvidia 560GTX plus existing Nvidia 460GTX plus possibly Nvidia 8800GTS
It needs to be Nvidia cards because the renderer runs off Cuda.
The Nvidia 8800GTS is currently used to drive the 2 monitors but this could be done by the H67 chipset.
Because if the noise we would prefer a quiet system and hubby is looking at a water cooled system. Due to the multiple graphic cards this will be probably have to be an external system.
I would appreciate anyones response as to whether this is an appropriate spec for what we want to achieve, power and quietness.
Budget is going to be around the £800 mark hopefully
At the moment he has got:
Asus P5K wifi deluxe
Q6600
8gb ram
Nvidia 460gtx (processing 3d) and Nvidia 8800GTS (driving monitor)
At the moment when he renders it sounds like a jet engine taking off and I fear the computer is just about to blow up!
What he would like is:
Intel I7 Sandybridge
Asus P8 H67 Motherboard
16gb Ram
Nvidia 560GTX plus existing Nvidia 460GTX plus possibly Nvidia 8800GTS
It needs to be Nvidia cards because the renderer runs off Cuda.
The Nvidia 8800GTS is currently used to drive the 2 monitors but this could be done by the H67 chipset.
Because if the noise we would prefer a quiet system and hubby is looking at a water cooled system. Due to the multiple graphic cards this will be probably have to be an external system.
I would appreciate anyones response as to whether this is an appropriate spec for what we want to achieve, power and quietness.
Budget is going to be around the £800 mark hopefully