Build for 3D modelling & rendering

[CG_Kennedy]

Hi,

After doing a bit of research I think I've come up with a good all round upgrade for my computer and just wanted to run it by you guys to see if everything will work well and I haven't gone too far or skimped out in any areas. I'm not at all experienced in building computers but here is what I've currently got:

Processor: AMD FX-6100
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3
Power supply: Cooler Master RP 600 PCAP
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3
RAM: 16GB 2400MHz DDR3
GPU: GTX GeForce 750 ti 2GB


And my upgrades:

Processor: AMD FX-8350
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60
Power supply: Corsair CX750
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X Evo R2.0

This computer is strictly for 3D modelling and rendering using 3Ds Max & Vray. Roughly how much of a performance increase do you think I will get with the suggested upgrades or could my money be best spend on alternative hardware?

Cheers

 

[lsmeed]

Those all seem like reasonable upgrades to me.

I run an fx8300 with 32gb ram and a 4gb R9 380 graphics and have no issues at all with any of autodesks software.

3Ds Max tends to benefit most from higher RAM, you should notice a decent rendering hike going up to 8 cores though. 3Ds Max is set up to use multi cores.

My only other comment would be that additional ram is cheap and makes a big difference. If you speak to autodesk they have a habit of telling you that 32gb is the minimum you should have (I genuinely once had an autodesk engineer tell me that I should have 128gb RAM!!)

Unless you plan on running HUGE models/renderings you should find your planned build a decent setup.

Hope that helps.

 

[CG_Kennedy]

Those all seem like reasonable upgrades to me.

I run an fx8300 with 32gb ram and a 4gb R9 380 graphics and have no issues at all with any of autodesks software.

3Ds Max tends to benefit most from higher RAM, you should notice a decent rendering hike going up to 8 cores though. 3Ds Max is set up to use multi cores.

My only other comment would be that additional ram is cheap and makes a big difference. If you speak to autodesk they have a habit of telling you that 32gb is the minimum you should have (I genuinely once had an autodesk engineer tell me that I should have 128gb RAM!!)

Unless you plan on running HUGE models/renderings you should find your planned build a decent setup.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the reply. I went ahead and bought all the parts except for the cooler which I replaced with a better one so I can get the most out of my CPU. Also this way I'll just need to upgrade my CPU further down the line.

Regarding the ram, with 16GB I never usually see more than 50% of it being used even when rendering and that's with vrays dynamic memory limit set to 10k and using embree (even though i'm not sure if embree is supported with this cpu, can't find much info on it). Based on this, surely more ram would just go to waste?

Cheers