iliya77
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jfklimek :
Hey iiliya77. Im an architectural student (student of design too). I'm super curious as to how this build works for your daughter. I'm sure it will help me guide my decisions. Anyhow, i'd really appreciate some follow up commentary on this build and some 3d rendering test or benchmarks if you could.
I promise I will do the best I can, however I don't think I'll have any time cuz as soon as I get it working I gotta ship it off to her as her current computer (high-end laptop) has crashed to the point of not being able to start in safe-mode (stupid virus). She got a SATA to USB gizmo from Best Buy and retrieved her files and is now working on school equipment, so she needs it ASAP. I'm sure you can relate.
What i WILL do though, and I'm sure it'll be a lot more valuable, I'll relay what she tells me about how it works. Then you'll have real-world perfomance info. Hopefully, the all-night rendering times will be a thing of the past, and no more need of the renering farm.
But I promise I'll let you know. Probably be about two weeks from now. maybe a little less. I don't know where exactly she is on her current project, it may not be that big yet. I know by the end of her project last year, it was so big she needed the rendering farm to do it. She's an arch. major also, so should be pretty relevant to you, I would think.
I only wish it wasn't so expensive - or - I had done it sooner. I wanted to build her a super-duper desktop a year or more ago, but she didn't want it. Had to be a laptop she insisted. Now she's so happy about getting this it has changed her whole attitude, from I'm-sick-of-this-I-don't-want-to-do-this-anymore-I just-want-to-quit, to hey, life is great. I don't know, sometimes with kids you just gotta do what you know is right and to heck with what they think.