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  1. Hi there I recently got my hands on a prety decent Lenovo Thinkpad T590 20N5 (https://www.lenovo.com/be/nl/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/ThinkPad-T590/p/22TP2TT5900) build in December 2019, so it's pretty decent, has various USBC ports and a lenovo docking port as well. I already upgraded the RAM from 16GB to 40GB (8GB's of ram is soldered upon the board, but the other has a regular SODIMM slot where i put a 32GB one with the samce specs that was supported by Lenovo themselves. Now we all know that THinkpad's are pretty decent laptops for business related purposes but as it doesn't have any dedicatetd graphics card and everything runs on the Integrated GPU of the Core I5 vPro 8Th Gen. I also upgraded the NVME SSD to a 1TB WD Black as the original I got (second handed) only had 128GB's (I assume this was replaced as normally these would be a Samsuing Evo 970 of 512GB or 1TB, but that was not the case for me. But yea now the question here is, I do like to make 3D models and rendering and it would certainly be a nice thing to have, my biggest fear is that it would be bottleneckled by the laptop itself. My choice for an External GPU would be the Aorus RTX 3080 Gaming Box (https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N3080IXEB-10GD#kf). But I am not sure if it's even possible to utilise it to its max potential with this Thinkpad and Lenovo's support wasn't much help eitrher. So does anyone ever did this with success or have the technical knowledge to say that an external RTX 3080 would be a good idea to purchase for the laptop in question? I thank you in advance for any suggestions or information you could provide me with. Sincerely Rafaël De Jongh
  2. Budget (including currency): €7000 EUR (seven hundred euro) - €10000 EUR (ten thousand euro) Country: Belgium Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: webdeveloping, coding, programming, compiling, hosting, server and network management, NAS, 3D Modeling, Game Development, PBR Real Time Rendering, Video Editing, Encoding/Decoding, Graphic Design, Illustrations, Virtual + Augmented Reality applications and games, ultra high settings for most upcoming triple a games. Other details: I am going for a complete new rig so nothing specific to this. So in general I would like to have a workstation like computer with generic consumer products as my workloads doesn't benefit when using enterprise grade equipment like xeon or epyc cpu's, quadro cards or ecc memory so I don't need anything of those things at all. I do have a very decent budget as far as I think I do for what I need it for. For starters my hobby is being a game developer but my job is being a Web developer so web developing/coding isn't really that heavy but the game development, rendering, real time PBR and even now GI+Ray Tracing does require quite the horse power. I don't play games often but one thing I always wanted when I wanted to buy a new pc was a VR headset probably and most likely the vive index but if anyone has other suggestions be my guest. I do work with immense high-quality and size images which easily reach in 30GB PSB (Photoshop Big Documents) and more that I work with and Photoshop being Photoshop it eats ram like crazy. I also have various other game development programs like quixel studio's who just consumes ram in a way that chrome seems to be very kind to the ram usage. So with that I need A LOT of ram and I think currently 256GB would be more than enough. I'm already used to 32GB and 64GB ram but that doesn't cut it by far. So yea the workflow I use would benefit with a high amount of ram and while I know ecc ram might get me even to like 1TB of ram I don't think I would need that much for now. But 128GB minimal but 256GB preferred. And with all the bios crap that Intel is pulling with the z boards and limiting ram and xmp profiles I do mainly therefor want to stick to the highest possible yet completely compatible set for whatever motherboard you would suggest. In the past I was thinking I needed pci4 but for the foreseeable future I don't think I do. What I however do need is immense fast read and write times where I currently am thinking of using the Aorus m.2 nvme gen4 which in both the pci version or the m.2 version seems to be the fastest ssd on the curre 't market? Most higher end motherboards like the Threadripper Aorus Master motherboard would have 3 x m.2 slots and these 3 in raid 0 as I would probably only use it for my os and programs and cache to parse files from hot to cold storage which would be the Seagate 16TB Exos as they seem to be cheaper than the iron wolf even though the exos are enterprise rated? Could anyone explain that to me to why this exactly is? But yea probably one or two 16TB HDD's, i don't know if octane would work with this kind of setup and especially if I would go for the Threadripper 3970x or would anyone recommend a different cpu? Is Intel's i9 even worthy to look at these days? So yea as I'm a huge Aorus fan I would prefer to have most if not all items to be aorus so for the GPU I don't think nvmi link would be any much better but do correct me if I would get an RTX2080Ti. The vram is perfect and should normally be able to run most things I including vr? Or would vr or games in general do make more use out of the nvmi link compared to SLI? For cooling I wanted to go with an AOI cooler from aorus or Corsair but I've been informed some heavy fan cooling would actually be the same if not better? So if anyone could provide me with some pro's and con's on this that would be certainly helpful. I'm not that interested in custom water cooling loops but an AOI if they're good I don't see a problem using it, likewise for the aorus 2080ti AOI water cooling edition. For the psu most likely the 1000 watt Corsair one or should I go with that one that doesn't have a fan? As I also do want this build to be extremely quite to what js possible of course. I also want to up my in home intranet from 1Gb to 10Gb so that might require an additional pci card. And for the m.2 raid does anyone think it would be a good idea to use a raid card over software raid for m.2 related memory? I could certainly go with 3 exos where I then could use raid 5 with these 3 drives and I do think that that does would be better with a hardware raid card. Suggestions welcomed. For the casing I do want something special not something typical and I first had my eyes on the Quadstellar case from Deepcool as that sure is one hell of an impressive case and with the way it separates its compartments I also found very interesting. But I am open to suggestions as appearance is one thing but sound and thus fan Noice does have a higher priority. So yea I have that kind of budget, with most of the specs listed or at least what I have in mind, I would love to have some opiniond on this and perhaps some suggestions to if I should wait for something to come out like in q4 of this year that is worth waiting for then I would. But if it's for mid next year then it doesn't matter. I do need a computer sooner or later as my current rig is about to die, I'm amazed that it still boots (well sometimes it doesn't) but yea I can wait but not too long either. So any suggestions to what specs I should for to have a multimedia/workstations like computer. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide me and future information. R.
  3. I see so it's no use really to use nvme raid setups and yea I'm using a sata raid 0 ssd set now. But if what you say is true then it might be indeed better to just fill the slots with 2TB nvme drives and use them as different clusters or different os boot drives. Any other suggestions I should make sure to take into account regarding the AOI cooling for example? Thanks either way for the information.
  4. Hmm could you elaborate on the ssd NVMe raid to why it wouldn't help there exactly? As I've been running such kind of setups with 3 ssd's over 5 years and the speed improvement is really noticeable. So could you explain to me why it isn't a good idea? And yea have decided to only take two seagate evo x16 16TB and just leave them as two separate drives. But do I require a raid card for the nvme ssd's? Thanks for your help and information.
  5. Oh that ssd indeed looks very promosing never seen of heard it, but yea that's pretty solid as well compared to the ssd's I listed! And as most are covered with heatsink on the motherboard it really doesn't matter which one they are or have any good looks. And yea the titan after looking more into it I don't think the performance improvement for my applications is really worth it as not a lot for my purposes use the full potential of the card so I probably will stay with the 2080ti.
  6. I do think they got a 2TB version of gen4 ssd which currently to my knowledge is the fastest m.2 nvme ssd on the market in terms of read and write speeds. A general question regarding the raid0 ssd setup, in general I don't need 2TB for the boot drive, my game library are already on external nvme ssd's so the m.2 ssd's I would put on it would be mostly if not only for OS and programs or I split them in two partitions of raid0 (so 2x2@raid0) to use as an optimal scratch disk. NAS is planned that's also the reason why I took a motherboard with 10Gbit elan. The other thing I had in mind would be to divide it into two virtual machines one having something like freenas running like 24/7 and the other also being on 24/7 to be used as remote render farm or something. Still something I need to think about but I it is indeed more logical to get a dedicated nas and put all hdd's in there. In general I would probably then just put in two hdd's at best and not sure if I can but if it would be possible with an amd cpu I then would install a pci octane cache card for the hdd's. My main concern here is also more in terms of AIO liquid coolers VS air coolers. If this is a good setup or do I have any bottlenecks or what specific areas should I put more attention in like the gpu or cpu choice. What I do know is that I don' t need error correcting memory so no ECC ram or a quadro card needed for me. My workload doesn't have such critical cases where this would be required. So yea if you or anyone has any other suggestion I'm all ears. I'm also looking back to my previous build setup and especially the case being the DEEP COOL QUADSTELLAR Smart PC Case as that looks for me a really interesting case to seperate the parts like cpu, gpu and hdd's especially with AOI coolers. If there are similar modular cases that are a bit smaller than the massive quadstellar then I'm certainly interested. Thanks in advance.
  7. Hi there everyone I would like to ask if anyone could help me make a gaming/workstation grade pc build. My general price range for this build is between €10.000 Euro and €15.000 Euro so it's not that I'm on a low budget but I do also don't want to waste money if it's something I do not need. My main job is doing 3D rendering (offline and RealTime renderer) game development, video editing and encoding/decoding/packing and exporting, working with large graphic and video formats like 20 to 30GB PSB files for 16bit 1:1@600dpi projects like banners and so as well as webserver management, Web development and everything that has to do with it as well as a lot of other heavy resource required work loads. Besides work I obviously play a game here and there and recently also bought an oled gsync hdr Pro 4K TV so I also want to be able to play on it at the maximum settings of any triple A game on the market. For that I currently the following specs in mind but I like some suggestions: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Threadripper 3970X 3.7 GHz 32-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Gigabyte AORUS LIQUID COOLER 360 59.25 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard: Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS XTREME XL ATX sTRX4 Motherboard ($1000.00) Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 256 GB (8 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Storage: Seagate EXOS Enterprise 16 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Storage: Seagate EXOS Enterprise 16 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Storage: Seagate EXOS Enterprise 16 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Storage: Seagate EXOS Enterprise 16 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Storage: Seagate EXOS Enterprise 16 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Storage: Seagate EXOS Enterprise 16 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB AORUS XTREME Video Card Case: Anidees AI Crystal XL AR 3 ATX Full Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair 1600 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Total: $1000.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-16 20:45 EDT-0400 A link to pc part picker: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/RafaelDeJongh/saved/Y7Pgt6 My main question is in which areas I could improve this? Is an AOI water cooler better or worse than an air cooler or what would be a good cooler for this threadripper or are different cpu suggested for my work? Is there anything else that I should take into account? In general I might perhaps want to do NVLink with the RTX2080ti AOI water cooled edition from Aorus. Or is it better To go for a single RTX Titan instead? Can I even properly use octane in this setting and can i expand my storage later on to even more harddrives? Should I use a dedicated Bluetooth card or raid card for my purposes as I might use the m.2 ssd in a raid 0 cluster and the HDD's in a raid 5. Would an Epyc cpu be better or a Xeon? I'm working with 4K black magic footage and do render a lot in Blender, Unreal Engine and so on so I need to have like both cpu and gpu performance to a really good stand. And with the ram, I currently always run into ram issues as I max it out with using Photoshop with the large files that Photoshop practically takes op 29 to even 30GB of my 32 GB ram memory so I also don't want to skip on my ram either, I first was going with 128 but in this case with my budget I'd prefer to fill it to the max or would this cause worse performance? When does too much ram become a bottleneck? So yea these are the questions I currently have a bit of everything especially on the cooling, speed and general usage of it. It would act as a half workstation and half personal/gaming computer. Any suggestions or feedback is very welcomed!
  8. Any other suggestions are obviously highly welcome, most of the products are purposely picked but for example I'd prefer a motherboard with a build in 10Gb lan port so that I don't need to buy a 10Gb nic. Maybe even go with that one motherboard Linus showed off that could be almost completely water-cooled. Do you also think it would actually be a good idea? Or do you have any other suggestion? I'm all ears. One thing is sure is that I probably wait for the next gen Ryzen's. I do want to stay RTX because of the tensor cores as I can utilise it in a specific workflow, even though the new amd vega Pro cards look very appealing. If anyone knows also a better motherboard that has the same or even more IO and has 10Gb lan build in that would be really helpful! Thanks in advance for further information.
  9. That's pretty much why I want this case as it really divides the compartments properly, while I do agree a dedicated server stack would be better, for me it's just not an option sadly enough, so when I saw this case and how the compartments are separated I directly thought that it would be perfect. As for your note on the aorus master, it's an EATX motherboard and the case also supports EATX, am I looking over something? Or are you referring to the 1,5cm longer in width of the motherboard? Wouldn't it work if you see the additional space left next to it? (see attached image) In general I would also be water cooling it in comparison to just air cooling, the bottom left compartment for the psu Is also a perfect place for the radiators and pump. I would also water cool the gpu'd together with the cpu of course, if there's enough space I might make two loops purely for the gpu'd and purely for the cpu's. So I do agree that the storage should be separated and that will be done when we grow further, but as for now this case seemed one of the best solutions I've come across for my needs. If you have any other cases in mind feel free to mention them. Thank you all for your writing and as for all I wish you a wonderful new year!
  10. Yea we recently got a Black Magic so davinci resolve did saw some improvements when I tested it with rtx titans in nvlink on IBS last summer. Certainly not chosen for gaming, mainly to either dedicate a card to a VM with that idea or to have them in Nvlink and use them for video scrubbing on the time line and splitsing rendering the pbr real time rendering compared to the program you're working with to create that result. (think octane, marmoset, unreal, etc).
  11. Hmm I would use different os's actually on these vm's being one mac os and the other some debian Linux distro. Because I had in mind of splitsing it I also went overboard with the ram. Though that said my current 32GB ram is on various tasks I require just at 99% of usage then I went to 64 and even that filled up fast. (the size of files we're working with is pretty insane) one psb file for example could be like 28GB for just a Photoshop file and yea Photoshop really sucks all that ram up. So for ram I'm pretty sure I want to max it out without going for ecc memory ofc. Money ain't the problem so I prefer a solid octa kit that is known and picked to work well together than later maybe have slight less effeciancy because of different quad packs. I certaibly could go with 2TB m.2 ssd's those from gigabyte/aorus seem to be the absolute fastest currently on the market but correct me if I'm wrong. The purpose of these would be to have all 3 drives in raid 0 like my current setup is done actually and tbh even after 5 years now never failed me. But yea those would only be for programs hence I went with 1TB instead of 2TB as I don't see the use for double TB's if it would just be raided and used for the os and only the programs. With the cm idea I would have dedicated each m.2 to one vm though rather than what you now brought up to just share files. However I'm still not sure if that's the best solution as other people would be able to remotely access it as it would be a render farm. For the drives I can get but I did have problems with large drives and Samba in the past before to be honest. The two gpu's were to put them not in sli but in NV link as resolve, houdini and such could benefit from it if only do slightly as well if configured properly I can use one gpu for real time 3D rendering while the other gpu is showing the 3D program itself, so pretty much dividing the load for real time 3D rendering. That's why two gpu's and with the vm story in mind the render hub would have his dedicated gpu compared than a shared one. That's why 2 GPU's. Certainly not for gaming and pretty much for PBR Real Time rendering and also accelerate the scrub timeline for some movie editing programs for the black magic for example. That's pretty much the explanation of those parts if it makes any sense that is.
  12. Hi all Pretty new here on the forums but a long time Linus Tech Tips fan, someone actually redirected me to here to discuss my build I have in mind. So first I would like to explain to why and what I am making. I want a semi kind like workstation that could properly render and scrub 4k (and soon 8K) footage with Houdini (Black Magic Camera) as well as Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, the whole Adobe Suite pretty much and various 3D creation, rendering and particles that would be used in simulations for any kind of project foto or film. Besides that as we've already established we're working with a 4K cinema camera and one of the fastest full frame DSLR camera's to do our job, so we need a load of storage, enough ram, proper gpu and obviously a great CPU that could connect all these things together. So this semi workstation would somewhat work as 3 pc's into one, one being a NAS, another would be an offload station to easily encode and decode video as well as upload them and as last a regular kind of pc for pretty high end gaming, 3D development (as I'm a game developer and Web Developer) My thought would have been to virtualize the NAS and offload station and have the regular pc just work as the default system. After looking at one of the cases that really spotted my eye being the Deepcool Gamer Storm Quadstellar ATX Desktop Case which has a sick way of hard drive cases, and separate compartments for each part of your system and on top of that you could water cool it really well. Therefore I made this PC Picker List: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/RafaelDeJongh/saved/#view=FfKYHx I've personally NEVER used AMD, but to be honest who can blame them right now when they're really crushing Intel on so many places and I might even wait for the new thread ripper with the more cores. Next to that would be a AIO cpu cooler, as I'm not out yet if I would be water cooling myself or not. With the motherboard, I personally ama huge fan of Aorus, and the motherboard itself is really amazing in terms of OI, especially the 5GbE utp connector is a nice edition, if I wait a bit longer they even might add a 10GbE port to the next generation of it as well as more thunderbolt ports or newer usb version, but the Aorus motherboard is not the super important part of this, so if there is a better part for this I'm all ears. The reason about 256GB of ram is purely to divide it to the different virtual machines, my current machine which is a 4 year old machine has 32GB of ram and that really does get filled up really fast when working with super huge files that lately we're only doing, so if the whole VM thing actually works that ih ave in mind then I would really need that 256GB of RAM. Now up to the storage, here I want to make a sort of NAS, and I'm completely not out of this one yet, so in the QuadStellar there are 9 hard drive bays, I was thinking of having 3 high capacity SSD's to pretty much use as a buffer to then send it off to cold storage to 16TB Seagate BaraCuda Pro's. And while I took 3 times 2TB Seagate BarraCuda SSD's, I'm not sure if this idea would work at all or if it is any good idea at all, should I perhaps just replace those SSD's with NVMe SSD's with an adapter to utilise it in the bays, also not really out of this as it would be my first time setting up a raid system or a nas, let stand a nas that does hot to cold storage. The Aorus NVMe SSD's are pretty much the fastest NVMe SSD's I could find and those would be purely put on the motherboard in raid OR have each of the NVMe SSD's have their dedicated VM NVMe SSD's. Not sure about this either so would also like to hear any thoughts on this. For the grahics cards, same here I'd either purchase the AOI closed water loop version of the gigabyte RTX2080TI times two not for SLI but for NVLink or for dedicating like the Aorus M.2 SSD's. The power supply just seemed like a good bet with the fan not spinning when idle, but I'm also open for a change in this departement if it's a better choice. The 10GB Nic I still think that I would need that until there's a motherboard that actually has that integrated in the OI So yea this is quite a long text and a big question if this is actually a good idea at all, but one thing is sure I would need a new computer with an insanely Fast Storage, CPU, RAM and GPU. If anyone has any suggestions regarding this kind of setup I would be more than glad to hear it, any improvements or better ideas to get such a 3 in 1 PC running then it would be great! Thanks in advance for further information.
  13. Does anyone have a full spec list of the computer itself on PCPartPicker or something? Thanks in advance!
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