Digital artist here, need help deciding on a beefy machine config, but i'm a little rusty on the IT side of things.
Digital artist here, need help deciding on a beefy machine config, but i'm a little rusty on the IT side of things.
So, my budget is 3KGBP, my use case is i do 3d modelling work (have done for 25years now), and would like a better machine that i can do (light) GPU render tests on. It will likely also do short (few days) runs of CPU rendering too.
Naturally, no amount of horsepower or RAM is ever really enough for 3D rendering, but this is the best config i could come up with within my budget.
As far as gaming goes, since i only turned to that recently (more and more as i get older it looks like), i only own 3 games: KSP2, Cities Skylines II, and X4 Foundations (so far), but its not a primary concern for this machine, just a nice-to-have.
Now i know, i am about to be told i sould go with AMD, perhaps the 7900 X3D?
Main reason im going with intel is i sometimes use older windows software, which i have had issues with AMD (mostly very niche 3DSMax Plugin stuff), but that was some time ago now, but i am very fearful of that.
I wont be overclocking it, as i need it to be stable, and will likely be doubling that 96GB of RAM in a couple of months, and no, it still wont be enough :(
I would be greatful for any advice, especially on the AMD side of things.
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Cant really speak to the cpu but I‘d definitely use amd gpu instead of nvidia for a multitude of reasons: proprietary driver, amd tends to have better bang for the buck and they tend to favor customers a little more than nvidia.
As much as I dislike Nvidia, cuda cores are THE metric used by art and design programs. I would stick with them in this case
Okay, that might be an issue. I dont use this kind of sw and am an admin by trade so I do tinker a lot.
It's not really something people think of if they're not a hardcore user of rendering and editing software
Tbf I edit videos and render stuff in blender. But obviously not in proprietary software. I get that not everyone has the skills, patience and sometimes even the privilege to use foss software.
is what I meant. Mobos have a max amount of memory supported but looks like you are well below that, the max on this board being 192GBI will point out that, without overclocking the maximum speed ram supported is 5600 MHz and youve picked out 5200 MHz, not sure how much of a boost it'd be but maybe look into that.
ALSO when you do get this build all set up, please please please check your BIOS and make sure that the ram you buy IS operating at the advertised MHz, sometimes they say one thing, but ship out of the box a little lower and you have to set it to the advertised speed. Frustrating to find out a year later that you've been using your system slower than it had to be.
Gotta love that market monopoly abuse 👍👍