Render Build Help

[Chadou54]

Hi,

I work for an architecture office in Luxembourg in the middle of Europe and I need your help.

We need a new strong PC, mostly for rendering in V-Ray for 3ds MAX. I'm quite new to all this rendering thing but I understood that the more cores you have the better.

Can you suggest me a configuration for a budget of € 3,000 excluding screens, the reader/writer and storage. And tell me why you propose this configuration.

I wish a maximum configuration optimized for the proposed budget.


I'm kind of lost here and would really appreciate your help.

Thanks

 

[Chadou54]

it's just for rendering right ? then i can make a xeon and a titan/z/x/black build for you.

I do 70% of my time rendering, and 30% photoshop, illustrator, indesign.
And when I calculate 3D rendering, I wish to use my pc minimal (watch the email, slightly used photoshop).

Can you provide a complete configuration for this?
Thanks.

 

[Anry]

i7-5960X Processor Extreme Edition (8 cores/16 threads) or a workstation xeon would be my recommendation. In my personal opinion titan is better than a quadro.

 

[Anry]

PU: Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor

Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99-UD4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory

VGA: GeForce GTX TITAN X

This configuration would be close to 3000 EU.

I am also in rendering bussines and would like a beast like this.

 

[tsuneo6]

1000 for the CPU, 300ish for the motherboard, 300ish for the RAM another 150 for the cooler, 1000 for the GPU and 150 PSU, 150 case, yep, seems like you did a good job anry.

 

[Anry]

there's no monitor in this link, you said excluding screens, the reader/writer and storage. i excluded just the monitor. that's what you meant right ?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($899.99 @ Micro Center)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120M 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste ($6.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus X99-DELUXE ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($386.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 32GB (8 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($289.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($201.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card ($678.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master HAF X ATX Full Tower Case ($189.95 @ B&H)
Power Supply: EVGA 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($149.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Asus BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $2979.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-21 05:50 EDT-0400

the cpu is a complete go. about the gpu: the 980Ti can perform similarly to the TITAN X. it can do better maybe if it's heavily oc'd. so the psu isn't overkill, or maybe it is. 3300 dollars is like 3000 euros so you can spend an extra 300$ for the acclaimed king

Unfortunately the prices are much higher in Europe... This configuration is great bust if he doesn't need storage and optical drive, go for titan. I know its expensive but if he needs gpu rendering (maybe in the future and not right now) extra VRam is beneficial because all the textures are loaded in vram when gpu rendering. Very complex 3D with complex textures requires a lots of VRam.

 

[Anry]

there's no monitor in this link, you said excluding screens, the reader/writer and storage. i excluded just the monitor. that's what you meant right ?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($899.99 @ Micro Center)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120M 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste ($6.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus X99-DELUXE ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($386.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 32GB (8 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($289.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($201.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card ($678.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master HAF X ATX Full Tower Case ($189.95 @ B&H)
Power Supply: EVGA 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($149.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Asus BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $2979.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-21 05:50 EDT-0400

the cpu is a complete go. about the gpu: the 980Ti can perform similarly to the TITAN X. it can do better maybe if it's heavily oc'd. so the psu isn't overkill, or maybe it is. 3300 dollars is like 3000 euros so you can spend an extra 300$ for the acclaimed king

Unfortunately the prices are much higher in Europe... This configuration is great bust if he doesn't need storage and optical drive, go for titan. I know its expensive but if he needs gpu rendering (maybe in the future and not right now) extra VRam is beneficial because all the textures are loaded in vram when gpu rendering. Very complex 3D with complex textures requires a lots of VRam.

okay. the prices are much higher. noted. if he doesn;t render with cpus and goes gpu, dn;t you think a 4790K should be good ? i render via blender too. infact for me my cpu seems to be faster on cycles

V-ray cpu vs gpu rendering is a little different, rendering with CPU is more common as far as i know, but you can't know how it will be in 1-2-3 years (maybe gpu rendering will be much more used, just can't know the future). I personally render with CPU and would invest more in CPU (the titan was just in case). If he is willing to spend 3000 I guess it is worth getting the best but a 980/980 TI would do just great.

 

[Anry]

there's no monitor in this link, you said excluding screens, the reader/writer and storage. i excluded just the monitor. that's what you meant right ?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($899.99 @ Micro Center)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120M 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste ($6.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus X99-DELUXE ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($386.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 32GB (8 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($289.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($201.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card ($678.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Cooler Master HAF X ATX Full Tower Case ($189.95 @ B&H)
Power Supply: EVGA 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($149.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Asus BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $2979.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-21 05:50 EDT-0400

the cpu is a complete go. about the gpu: the 980Ti can perform similarly to the TITAN X. it can do better maybe if it's heavily oc'd. so the psu isn't overkill, or maybe it is. 3300 dollars is like 3000 euros so you can spend an extra 300$ for the acclaimed king

Unfortunately the prices are much higher in Europe... This configuration is great bust if he doesn't need storage and optical drive, go for titan. I know its expensive but if he needs gpu rendering (maybe in the future and not right now) extra VRam is beneficial because all the textures are loaded in vram when gpu rendering. Very complex 3D with complex textures requires a lots of VRam.

okay. the prices are much higher. noted. if he doesn;t render with cpus and goes gpu, dn;t you think a 4790K should be good ? i render via blender too. infact for me my cpu seems to be faster on cycles

V-ray cpu vs gpu rendering is a little different, rendering with CPU is more common as far as i know, but you can't know how it will be in 1-2-3 years (maybe gpu rendering will be much more used, just can't know the future). I personally render with CPU and would invest more in CPU (the titan was just in case). If he is willing to spend 3000 I guess it is worth getting the best but a 980/980 TI would do just great.

okay. then i guess he's going titan x probably

I am actually curious what he would buy, hope he replies and tells us

 

[hilite24]

Hi,

I work together with Chadou54.

Thank you guys for your help. <3

We will compare all the diffrent configs and try to pick one build.
We got a lot of diffrent opinions... which brought up evene more questions than we had in the beginning. But that's not a bad thing.

I'll let you know what we finally picked or come back to you guys for more advice.

Hilite

 

[hilite24]

As I promised I'll let you know what we finally picked.

We haven't ordered yet but this is the cfg :

1. SuperMicro Barebone Superwoirkstation SYS-7038A-I
685 €

2. Intel Xeon e5-2630v3 2,4 GHZ
1196 € / 598 € each

3. SuperMicro CPU Vent
69,80 € / 34,90 € each

4. Samsung 32 GB Supermicro Certified
285€

5. PNY NVIDIA Quadro K4200 4GB
715 €

TOTAL : 2950,80 €
Delivery: 39.50 €
Assembling : 70 € (optional)

Hilite

 

[Anry]

As I promised I'll let you know what we finally picked.

We haven't ordered yet but this is the cfg :

1. SuperMicro Barebone Superwoirkstation SYS-7038A-I
685 €

2. Intel Xeon e5-2630v3 2,4 GHZ
1196 € / 598 € each

3. SuperMicro CPU Vent
69,80 € / 34,90 € each

4. Samsung 32 GB Supermicro Certified
285€

5. PNY NVIDIA Quadro K4200 4GB
715 €

TOTAL : 2950,80 €
Delivery: 39.50 €
Assembling : 70 € (optional)

Hilite

Looks like a great choice, although not entirely sure about the K4200, but the dual xeon is a great choice, congrats!

 

[hilite24]

I had to go with the K4200. Would be the fastest Quadro GPU fitting in the budget.