Dedicated PC build for blender 3d software to create high graphic CGI cinematic animations.

[genesis42]

Hello all, this is the computer parts that are currently in my cart and will order soon. thought to get the expertise of the community before putting down 2700 dollars.this computer will be dedicated only for blender software to create realistic CG, the CG animations and the resolution of graphics is gonna be similar to what you see in the cinematic scenes of the video games, so realistic textures and organic/realism is my goal here to reach in my animations, so hopefully these parts would hold up and the GPU will have a fast rendering time(also my focus for this build,....rendering of complex textures, hair, fluids, cloth,etc) . fast rendering in real time(preview of what i see on screen) and fast in the final render





I will not overclock any of the below because i dont know how to,but am thinking about it. feel free to suggest it or not and what are the pros and cons for doing it:





I've left a lot of space if you guys want to copy and paste all of this in the reply and just answer under each question if its not too much to ask please.





Tower(posted this to get input if its good). it has three already build in fans, but how it looks, overheating is one of my concerns, i will put 2 more fans in there and with the liquid cooler, hopefully that will be enough.what do guys think?






Tower case:
Fractal Design Define XL R2 FD-CA-DEF-XL-R2-TI Titanium Grey Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case


CPU:
Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3 GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W BX80648I75820K Desktop Processor

Motherboard:
ASUS X99-DELUXE/U3.1 LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Intel Motherboard

RAM:
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2800 (PC4 22400) Intel Z170 Platform / Intel X99 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-2800C15Q-32GVRB

Power Supply:
CORSAIR RMx RM1000X 1000W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Power Supply

Graphics Card:

EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 06G-P4-4995-KR 6GB SC+ GAMING w/ACX 2.0+, Whisper Silent Cooling w/ Free Installed Backplate Graphics Card

Hard Disk:

one SSD 250GB for the operating system and computer programs:
SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-75E250B/AM

and another 2 500GB SSD for a RAID1 setup:

SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 500GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-75E500B/AM

Operating System:

Microsoft Windows 10 Home - 64-bit - OEM

It would mean the world and would really appreciated if you guys can help me and answer all questions and letting me know if set up would be a fast, reliable, and if the GPU is fine and would hold up and render fast of a 5 to 10 minutes of hollywood level special effects or in game cinematic cutscenes quality realism.


also,
- I can use the SSDs for the RAID 1 right?






-this motherboard has and supports RAID1 option correct?






-Should I be worried about running out of Vram for my GPU? not sure how it works. if my scene for example, is rendering and the size was 1GB, after I turn off my system or turn off blender and stop working on it, that 1GB is returned and the Gpu is back to having 6GB total? or that 1GB is gone forever?



-6GB of vRam is more than enough? or should I get more vRam?



-does the cpu effect how fast the gpu renders?


-am gonna be using mostly my GPU for rendering. the CPU i have chosen is more than enough to have the speed in case i have to fall back on it to render with 6 cores right?



-does vRAM runs out because of rendering? for my purpose of use, how does my gpu runs out of vram when using blender?



-silly question but 6 cores does mean that this processor have 12 hyper-threads right?





does the monitor play a role while am modeling? does having a 4k resolution monitor give me 4k resolution in my animation? should i get a 1080 or higher resolution monitor? or as long as i see what am doing, am ok? and the monitor doesn't play a role in 3d modeling and animation?







sorry for all of these questions,but am kinda desperate and a little frustrating and need your wisdom and knowledge. Thank you so much in advance and be thankful if all my questions are answered.

 

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You'll need to look at the software you use to decide on the card. Take a look and see if it supports CUDA or OpenCL and buy accordingly. Some will even support both and you'll need to choose which to get. Why are you buying such a large PSU? The CPU is 140W, and the GPU is around 250W. That's around 450-500W for the entire system. What is the rest of the PSU going to be doing? Why are you looking at a RAID1 setup? I could see an RAID0 setup here so you can write 4k video if you are shooting/rendering that. But RAID1 here doesn't make sense to me.

1) You can use SSDs for RAID, and while I haven't looked I'm sure that board supports RAID.

2) If your GPU is rendering then you probably want as much Vram as you can get. I haven't seen any hard data on this. You might be better off with a quadro card seeing as they aren't nerfed for compute tasks. (or if your software supports OpenCL using an AMD card as they do really well with compute tasks.) And of course ram is returned.

3) CPU in this case doesn't matter much. Only handles the data flow. In/out of GPU/drives. When using a GPU to render a slow CPU should perform the same as a higher one. When everyone was on the bitcoin craze people were plugging as many cards as they could into a system. (fast single slot cards meant you could fit 7 of them into a tower.) They then use the LOWEST CPU and a single stick of ram. It's the GPU that's doing all the work, you just need something that will run windows, etc.

4) It doesn't matter if the CPU has enough speed if you have to fall back to it. It's one of the fastest you can get so it will have to do.

5) Vram can run out. But as above you've already selected a card with as much as you can get. So nothing you can really do.

6) To my knowledge all i7s support HT. So this is a 6C/12T CPU.

7) Not really. Are you old enough to have seen the movie City Slickers? In the movie one of them tries to explain to his friends that you can record something to watch, even if it's not hooked up to a TV. In a round about way, the same is true here. You should be able to render 4K or 5K video, even on an old CRT monitor which can't get even close to that res. You'll have to scroll around A LOT in order to see what you are doing but your monitor doesn't impact what you are doing in a performance way. You do want to have monitors that can support what you are doing however so you can easily see the finished product.

 

[genesis42]

You'll need to look at the software you use to decide on the card. Take a look and see if it supports CUDA or OpenCL and buy accordingly. Some will even support both and you'll need to choose which to get. Why are you buying such a large PSU? The CPU is 140W, and the GPU is around 250W. That's around 450-500W for the entire system. What is the rest of the PSU going to be doing? Why are you looking at a RAID1 setup? I could see an RAID0 setup here so you can write 4k video if you are shooting/rendering that. But RAID1 here doesn't make sense to me.

1) You can use SSDs for RAID, and while I haven't looked I'm sure that board supports RAID.

2) If your GPU is rendering then you probably want as much Vram as you can get. I haven't seen any hard data on this. You might be better off with a quadro card seeing as they aren't nerfed for compute tasks. (or if your software supports OpenCL using an AMD card as they do really well with compute tasks.) And of course ram is returned.

3) CPU in this case doesn't matter much. Only handles the data flow. In/out of GPU/drives. When using a GPU to render a slow CPU should perform the same as a higher one. When everyone was on the bitcoin craze people were plugging as many cards as they could into a system. (fast single slot cards meant you could fit 7 of them into a tower.) They then use the LOWEST CPU and a single stick of ram. It's the GPU that's doing all the work, you just need something that will run windows, etc.

4) It doesn't matter if the CPU has enough speed if you have to fall back to it. It's one of the fastest you can get so it will have to do.

5) Vram can run out. But as above you've already selected a card with as much as you can get. So nothing you can really do.

6) To my knowledge all i7s support HT. So this is a 6C/12T CPU.

7) Not really. Are you old enough to have seen the movie City Slickers? In the movie one of them tries to explain to his friends that you can record something to watch, even if it's not hooked up to a TV. In a round about way, the same is true here. You should be able to render 4K or 5K video, even on an old CRT monitor which can't get even close to that res. You'll have to scroll around A LOT in order to see what you are doing but your monitor doesn't impact what you are doing in a performance way. You do want to have monitors that can support what you are doing however so you can easily see the finished product.

ok cool. i will be using blender for my software and nvidia is the recommended gpu cards to use, so CUDA i will be using. the reason i am doing a raid 1 is to have a back up incase something happens, so i wont lose any of my months hard work. the reason i have alot of psu is in case if i wanted to upgrade to a quad gpu sli set up in the future or any upgrade in general, i will have the juice to handle it.

1.is it true that when i close my program(blender) what ever vram i was using returns and i will have total 6GB total vram again? or whatever i used or rendered with is gone?

2.is that how vram runs out?

3. from a workstation perspective and how i described how i'm gonna use the gpu, how do i lose vram and will eventually run out?


thanks in advance

 

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Sigh.

Lightening stikes. PSUs fails to protect inrush current and it ends up frying all the drives in your system. How does RAID 1 "backup" your data? You accidentally click delete somehow and delete a folder. RAID 1 copies the delete command to both drives. How does RAID 1 "backup" your data? You are browsing in your off time and catch a locker virus. You even break down and pay them $3k, but they send the wrong code. The data is locked on both drives, how does RAID 1 "backup" your data? RAID != BACKUP. PERIOD. RAID 1 was never meant to be a backup, nor should it be considered one. Get a USB external drive and backup to that as needed. Remove from the tower so nothing bad happens to it.

Ah yes. The huge PSU in case you ever want to upgrade anything. This is another "bad idea" for a few reasons. But I doubt I'd be able to convince you to that one.

You are asking about the Vram not "returning" again. What have you heard that you aren't understanding? Or what did you hear that confuses you considering what I said above? You'll "run out" of Vram when you open blender and use it. It will use the Vram until there isn't anymore. When you close the program it's like you never turned it on. Like any other program when you turn it off it's done. It doesn't hang around and never get flushed out.

 

[genesis42]

Sigh.

Lightening stikes. PSUs fails to protect inrush current and it ends up frying all the drives in your system. How does RAID 1 "backup" your data? You accidentally click delete somehow and delete a folder. RAID 1 copies the delete command to both drives. How does RAID 1 "backup" your data? You are browsing in your off time and catch a locker virus. You even break down and pay them $3k, but they send the wrong code. The data is locked on both drives, how does RAID 1 "backup" your data? RAID != BACKUP. PERIOD. RAID 1 was never meant to be a backup, nor should it be considered one. Get a USB external drive and backup to that as needed. Remove from the tower so nothing bad happens to it.

Ah yes. The huge PSU in case you ever want to upgrade anything. This is another "bad idea" for a few reasons. But I doubt I'd be able to convince you to that one.

You are asking about the Vram not "returning" again. What have you heard that you aren't understanding? Or what did you hear that confuses you considering what I said above? You'll "run out" of Vram when you open blender and use it. It will use the Vram until there isn't anymore. When you close the program it's like you never turned it on. Like any other program when you turn it off it's done. It doesn't hang around and never get flushed out.

ok cool, gotchya, raid is off my list. now in regards of buying a lower psu, is there a particular brand that you trust and will protect my other hardware in case of a lightning strike or anything else and is energy efficient?