Quad dual GPU's.

[Freaky_spider]

The actual slots, god dammit, the cooler covers them.

noted, sorry for my stupid response

, with that budget he could WC it.

[WunderWuffle]

Would it still work on the P9X79-E? Since all of it's lanes are 16x, it should be sufficient. shouldn't it?

Yeah. Either the P9X79E-WS or the Asrock Extreme 11 should work since it has enough lanes.

[HeathCliff]

The actual slots, god dammit, the cooler covers them.

 

It'll all be w/c'd. But anyway. The majority of the information I was looking for has been sorted. All that's left is to do a lot of googleing and some studying. Thanks for the help everyone!

[Freaky_spider]

Would it still work on the P9X79-E WS? Since all of it's lanes are 16x, it should be sufficient. shouldn't it?

they are sufficient

[HeathCliff]

noted, sorry for my stupid response

, with that budget he could WC it.

 

'Budget'

[Tam3n]

For games you can only use four GPU's at a time as far as I know, but in computing, such as OpenCL you can have as many as you want, they'll work even at 1x mode.

 

Also there's a reason why Mac Pro has dual AMD Fire Pro cards... So for editing I'd say AMD.

[Doxxy]

The majority of the tasks will be 3D modelling (AutoDesk) and compute tasks. Knowing this which would you say is better?

My comment was sarcastic, AMD is the way to go for the times when you wanna model, render and process sh*t.

[TriBeard]

The actual slots, god dammit, the cooler covers them.

It just depends on the layout of the board. A lot of x79 boards support 4 way crossfire/sli, and have layouts that can accommodate 4 dual slot graphics cards. 

 

That said, for pure professional application performance, I would go for the dual titan-zs. I don't really see the point of the amd cards though, as they will only add complexity, and the quad-sli titan-z's will be plenty for gaming as well. 

[TriBeard]

My comment was sarcastic, AMD is the way to go for the times when you wanna model, render and process sh*t.

That's what I thought originally too, but the titan's look like they might pull ahead in professional stuff. If you have something that contradicts that though, I'd be interested to check it out. 

[Doxxy]

That's what I thought originally too, but the titan's look like they might pull ahead in professional stuff. If you have something that contradicts that though, I'd be interested to check it out. 

KH/s of a Titan: ~500

KH/s of an R9 290: ~800

[kamaltmo]

Obviously this isn't the smartest move but if he is going to do it, I would go with the R9 295X2's. The Titan Z chips are under clocked so it would perform worse than two titan blacks however we haven't seen any benchmarks and its air cooled so unless he is water cooling, cooling will be nigh on impossible. The 295X2 is actually slightly overclocked so it should perform as good if not better than two r9 290s and since its liquid cooled the heat shouldn't be a problem. Just make sure his case has room for all those rads

 

P.S what anime is your profile pic from ?    

[HeathCliff]

Obviously this isn't the smartest move but if he is going to do it, I would go with the R9 295X2's. The Titan Z chips are under clocked so it would perform worse than two titan blacks however we haven't seen any benchmarks and its air cooled so unless he is water cooling, cooling will be nigh on impossible. The 295X2 is actually slightly overclocked so it should perform as good if not better than two r9 290s and since its liquid cooled the heat shouldn't be a problem. Just make sure his case has room for all those rads

 

P.S what anime is your profile pic from ?    

 

Chuunibyou demo koi ga shitai Season 2

[kamaltmo]

Chuunibyou demo koi ga shitai Season 2

Oh thanks, Recommend it ?

[HeathCliff]

Oh thanks, Recommend it ?

 

Yup. One of my all time fav's.

[ivhyn]

Advise him to get a watercooled rig, even with airconditioning it can get quite hot in Dubai

He should just build two rigs, one with Nvidia cards and one with AMD cards, might be more expensive but with less driver hassle and stuff. 

[Clarkey]

Two Titan Zs and Watercool them. But i reckon 3 titan Blacks would actually outperfom that(although impossible to say atm)

[Dylan522p]

Tell him to get a bunch of Quadros......

[Anthony10]

._.

[TriBeard]

Two Titan Zs and Watercool them. But i reckon 3 titan Blacks would actually outperfom that(although impossible to say atm)

How so? A titan-z is 2 titan blacks.

[TriBeard]

KH/s of a Titan: ~500

KH/s of an R9 290: ~800

RIght, but isn't that just a measure of mining performance, not general openCL/double precision (if he needs it) performance? I'd love to recommend the 295x2 just cause I don't really think anyone should buy the titan-z except for very specific cases, but I just don't know that it's practical.

[dragoon20005]

Before I even start, Yes I can pretty much imagine the stupidity of the idea and the majority of the responses that you will write however, I hope you'll look past this and be as straight forward as possible.

 

Now to onto the subject. One of my relatives, currently in Dubai, has just got a promotion. A big one. And he needs a new PC where money is not a restriction for him. He has basic understandings of the computer world, so he'll be able to set everything up at his end.

 

However the problems lie with his component choices. He wants to use dual Titan-Z's (Quad SLI) and dual R9-295 X2 (Quadfire) on a 4960X RIVBE. Yes you heard right. Now in a few days I will be talking to him over skype and having a rational debate on why the hell he won't give it to me and my 13 year old system...joke. But anyway, aside from having one of the biggest e-peens in the world, what other benefits are there really?

 

I have watch Linus's mixed gpu video and I can get a basic grasp of the advantages, but I need him to think about it carefully. I'd doubt that he'll be using the system to it's full intention. 

 

So can you guys give a hand?

 

(His work is based around professional 3D modelling, physics and stuff)

 

(Compulsory, but it's not him)

 

 

Ok

 

Titan Z or R9 295X2 are geared towards crazy consumers who have tons of money like the picture above to blow

 

for purely 3D modelling, physics and stuff and no gaming

 

you will need to use professional GPUs like the Quadro K6000s or the AMD FirePro

 

this is my experiences from my previous employment which have done special effects for "Pacific Rim"

 

they blow quite a ton of money for Quadro GPUs and Xeon CPU for rendering purposes.

 

one PC will cost close to 30 grand or more if fully max out on all possible parts.

[TriBeard]

Ok

 

Titan Z or R9 295X2 are geared towards crazy consumers who have tons of money like the picture above to blow

 

for purely 3D modelling, physics and stuff and no gaming

 

you will need to use professional GPUs like the Quadro K6000s or the AMD FirePro

 

this is my experiences from my previous employment which have done special effects for "Pacific Rim"

 

they blow quite a ton of money for Quadro GPUs and Xeon CPU for rendering purposes.

 

one PC will cost close to 30 grand or more if fully max out on all possible parts.

 

I was looking at the FirePro W9100 though, and for autocad at least, which is what the OP specifies as one of the applications that he needs good performance in, one titan is only slightly slower. The Titan-z is 1000 dollars cheaper than the W9100 (which performs between a K5000 and a K6000, as does a Titan) and costs 3999 USD. So two titans (the Titan-z) would outperform it.

 

Now, if money is no object, you could theoretically get dual or triple w9100 (or other workstation cards), and then throw in an R9 295x2 for gaming and have your cake and eat it two. You're looking at about 15,000 - 17,000 dollars in hardware though to do that. 

[Clarkey]

How so? A titan-z is 2 titan blacks.

Titan Z is underclocked and with Watercooling i reckon you could get better performance out of them. In games definatly as sli scaling with 4 gpus is terrible.

[MegaTechPC]

I hope he likes troubleshooting and spending more time on his backup computer looking up fixes and workarounds on Google than actually using that epeen machine...

[TriBeard]

Titan Z is underclocked and with Watercooling i reckon you could get better performance out of them. In games definatly as sli scaling with 4 gpus is terrible.

Fair enough. I didn't realize that they were underclocked. I would almost always recommend the titan blacks in SLI over the titan-z, it's just he said money's no object so I thought it might be quieter for the same performance, assuming he didn't want to mess with water cooling. If he doesn't mind it, then for sure single cards under water would be best.