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I'm thinking of assembling a new rig, so far i've mostly worked on single cpu machines, which i used to overclock, but nothing too extreme.
I was looking at brand names, like dell or boxx, but other than the basics, it seems like you're paying a premium for the stuff that you don't really need. Like, i don't see an option for a smaller SSD drive, and the ones they offer are $$$$$. I was thinking of a dual cpu rig, but i've absolutely no idea which series are contemporary. I was also thinking of keeping the gpu and hdd on some basic level, like maybe two really small SSD drives in raid, (i used to do that with raptors back in the day). I figure if you cut corners on that, you can get a lot of juice out of the cpus. I havent used the RT thing once, i just need something that can chew glossy reflections, and stuff like grass/foliage and spit it out in no time. I see that dual socket motherboards average around 500 bucks, what makes sense at this time, two 6 core xeons, 8 core ones?
I was looking at brand names, like dell or boxx, but other than the basics, it seems like you're paying a premium for the stuff that you don't really need. Like, i don't see an option for a smaller SSD drive, and the ones they offer are $$$$$. I was thinking of a dual cpu rig, but i've absolutely no idea which series are contemporary. I was also thinking of keeping the gpu and hdd on some basic level, like maybe two really small SSD drives in raid, (i used to do that with raptors back in the day). I figure if you cut corners on that, you can get a lot of juice out of the cpus. I havent used the RT thing once, i just need something that can chew glossy reflections, and stuff like grass/foliage and spit it out in no time. I see that dual socket motherboards average around 500 bucks, what makes sense at this time, two 6 core xeons, 8 core ones?
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