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How do these specs look?

  • 2rd generation Intel Core i7-3930 3.20GHz processor; delivers outstanding processing power for your system
  • 64GB of DDR3 memory; tons of resources to provide awesome task handling performance
  • NVIDIA Quadro 4000 GPU; astonishing graphics using 2GB of video memory
  • 2TB hard drive and 240GB solid state drive; enjoy storing lots of digital files amazingly
  • DVDRW drive; burns DVDs and CDS with ease
  • Liquid cooling setup; dissipate heat on your system quickly
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Very nice. Bang Vs Buck ratio looks right on. Is this going to be a HP/DELL or homemade?

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it’s an iBUYPOWER for a little under $3000

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Do gaming cards (geforece) not do a better job at viewport speed then the quadros? I only remember the quadros outperforming the gaming cards with certain simulation tasks.

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I bought a K4000 and I’m fairly happy with it. I made my decision based on this test: Workstation Graphics: 14 FirePro And Quadro Cards | Tom's Hardware

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  • 2rd generation Intel Core i7-3930 3.20GHz processor; delivers outstanding processing power for your system - I assume this is the K version? So it can be overclocked. I have this CPU but I recently purchased an Intel Core i7 4770K and overclocked it. Its around half the price and surprisingly it rendered a 20 minute scene 1 minute faster than the Intel Core i7 3930K.
  • 64GB of DDR3 memory; tons of resources to provide awesome task handling performance.
  • NVIDIA Quadro 4000 GPU; astonishing graphics using 2GB of video memory. This is a really poor GPU and is old. Spend a little more money in this area and future proof yourself a bit. Maybe look at getting a TITAN as the latest Quadro cards are expensive. Also don’t forget AMD, their latest GPUs are showing good performance results
  • 2TB hard drive and 240GB solid state drive; enjoy storing lots of digital files amazingly
  • DVDRW drive; burns DVDs and CDS with ease. How many discs do you burn/read? I ditched this in my latest build as I never use it. USB 3 memory sticks are cheap these days and services such as Dropbox make file transfer simples. This will save yourself a few quid.
  • Liquid cooling setup; dissipate heat on your system quickly
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I´d also go for gaming cards. Those benchmarks are not really meaningful for Max as max/nitrous uses DirectX. DirectX is usually way faster on gaming cards.
Also the Geforce outperforms quadros in many benchmarks. For example Iray (I could magine it´s similar with VrayRT).
The quadro 4000 only has 2gb memory.A geforce gtx770 has 4gb while it´s half the price.
I´m also not sure why a system like this needs a liquid cooler wich makes it unnecessary expensive.
In September there will come a new generation of intel CPU´s. New hexacores and even an octacore for the consumer market. The prices of the new CPU´s
are pretty similar on realease as the current prices. ~40$ more. Here is a price list.

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I’d get rid of the quadro for a gaming card and i’m not so sure you need liquid cooling these days.
have a look at this - http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high\_end\_gpus.html
your quadro gets a score of 1900 - http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Quadro+4000
and for the same price you can get the highest scoring single 3d cards available on the market. the gtx 780ti would destory it in nearly every benchmark.

I think you can get the 4930 i7 for the same price.
I also don’t know what you’d use 64gb of ram for, that’s just going to cause issues on your machines that don’t have that. instead of spending 5 minutes optimizing your scenes as you go, you’ll end up sending renders and they’ll choke on the limit taking significantly longer to render. I use fusion a lot which eats ram in an instant and i’d still get 32gb of better or faster ram.

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Next time I get a new workstation, I think I might push for a dual XEON. Just another spanner in your works :wink:

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With VRay 3.0 and the Embree option, is it worth it moving away form intel?[quote=“Avesani, post:3, topic:45275, username:Avesani”]
Next time I get a new workstation, I think I might push for a dual XEON. Just another spanner in your works :wink:
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My goal was one screaming machine and no slaves. Everything on one SSD drive, so no network slow downs.

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4930 i7 = $600+
gtx 780ti = $700+
SSD = $400+
RAM = $400+
Motherboard = $1,200+
Case = $100+
Power = $50+

So, for around $3500 you can build this?

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in that case, definitely dual xeon

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How about this bad boy!

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what motherboard is 1200??
e: oh, you’re set on 64gb of ram. you’re spending over a thousand dollars extra on another 32gb of ram. we work on some crazy scenes and render them on 16gb, only people who do editing even have 32gb at our place.

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I have a z820, now relegated to being a renderslave… they are nice and compact for what they are, but they run pretty damn hot AND NOISY. I know Bertrand Benoit has had a similar experience with his z820, and even had problems with faulty ram. (see comments: GPU maintenance — PETER GUTHRIE)

I now am using something I built myself, which is what I should have done all along. It is almost completely silent and runs at about 55deg under load compared to 80 (conservative average…) for the Z820.

When building mine, I referred a lot to the cooling strategy employed by these guys in the US, maybe worth a look?? Or maybe someone else has experience with them? Custom Workstation Computers | Puget Systems

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Well you just jumped from a 3.5k build to a 10.5k. If you’re going to those values you can get a lot of options.

About that one specifically I think the money you spend on 128gb of ram you could just spend on 32 or 64 and get the cpu above that one.

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Agree with Peter, the best is for you to build it yourself or ask a friend to build and you just buy the pieces. About the cooling, as long as the case has a nice air flow design, and not like those HP, you don’t even need water cooling

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I have always built mine, too, but it is nice to window shop. About the water cooling… it would just be worth it to say that I have a water cooled PC :slight_smile:

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Powersupply 50$?!

I hope its a mistake and it cost around 500$…

also if you are going up to 10k$ maybe just get a server farm of ebay with 10-20 nodes…