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Do you know what sucks. My corsair HX850 is hard shutting down my pc when I use my 1080 ti and 980ti in blender cycles together. When I use just one of the gpus to render cycles pc stays on. I work in IT support but I really dont get much into the electronics stuff or stuff thats more in the field of an electrician. What I have tried so far is to try one gpu as i stated above. I also tried putting the 1080ti on one pcie wire that has the two ends. I knew that running two wires was easyer on the psu but I wondered if there was a rail issue. In msi afterburning i put both cards to 80% power but it still shut down. I wana try going harder on that and even try lowering the clocks. I put a kelowat meter on the whole system and it read 422w when rending with both gpus. I checked temps of the gpu's and cpu but they were in spec. one gpu is watercooled and the other is a gygabite windforce 3 so the temps are pretty good. CPU is cooled by a notua but its too small for it. I will upgrade it later to water when i can buy the tubes and fittings, Games just use the one gpu so no shutdowns there. My knowlage on the internals of psu's are limited and all I have is a multi meter to test but Its been a few years since my electronics and electricity college course segment. Please help me to keep removing varables until we can identify the cuase. Im guinna sleep cus its late and i have a fleu coming on Here is the pc part picker: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/hTf9TW ps here is a frame of the blender animation i am rendering. PS

Hey guys , i need a recommendation for a very powerful laptop for 3d (blender) and for unity3d preferred a GTX with the TI version a i heard they are powerful! But at the end of the day i need powerful for rendering and modeling, that has thunderbolt (necessary) can someone help me?

Hello everyone, thank you for your time. I am helping my cousin transition from his iMac to the PC family. He goes to school for film, and takes pride in what he shoots, but also what he can do in post. In his words, he plans to not only edit his 4k videos, but also begin "doing more CGI-based work.. so more work with Blender or Cinema 4D". Budget: USD $2500 , but he is willing to go a little extra for a necessary reason. *US availability Expected programs: Adobe Premiere, Blender, and Cinema 4D Here is the part list I have currently made for him: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Pgc3LP Please let me know what parts are more optimal, etc. I think he wants to get the most out of his budget. Do you recommend he wait and hope he happens to get a rtx 3080? I don't think it's necessary, but I also am not familiar with this kind of workload. Thank you ! EDIT: He does, unfortunately, need wifi. Not for uploading, but for other things.

Budget (including currency): £2000 Country: England Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Unity, Modern games, predominately fps, rpg eg: gotham knights, battlefield 2042, kotor remaster, forza horizon 5 Other details: upgrading from a base xbox one, planning to play games at 1440p 120fps will need peripheral recommendations aswell as build suggestions :) Im studying computer science at A level so using blender and unity would be useful for coursework

Budget (including currency): 1,630–2,500 USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Affinity Suite, DaVinci Resolve, Blender, maybe gaming (Overwatch, Valorant, Xbox Series X exclusives I can't get on PS5). Other details: The intent is for architecture student work and content creation. I need a monitor included in the budget, I already have a mouse and keyboard. I may want a trackpad as well (Apple Magic Trackpad 2) though I can always get one later. The goal is to supplement my 2016 13" base model MacBook Pro, moving my school and creative productivity to the PC. The competition is the new M1 iMac, thus the matching $1,630 target budget—though I'm willing to go over to reach a comparable level of performance, quality, and compactness. For example, the monitor must be at least 4K to approximate the 4.5K iMac display, and have a similar level of color accuracy. Parts List I came up with: Monitor: LG 4K 27" 27UK650-W $400 Case: Louqe Ghost S1 $295 CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X $280 Cooler: Noctua-L12 Ghost S1 edition $55 GPU: RTX 3060 Ti $400 Motherboard: ROG Strix B550-I mini ITX $210 PSU: NZT C650 $110 RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8gb LPX 16 DDR4–3600 $93 M.2 storage: Western Digital Black SN750 500gb $70 Case Fan: Noctua A12x15 FLX $26 Total: $1,939 Some Questions I Have: What is the difference between Noctua's FLX and PWM fans? Will I even need a case fan? What is the difference between motherboards? For example, what does the "B550" refer to? It is my understanding that built–in wifi on a motherboard just means it has wifi capability and a separate antenna that has to be placed on the desk somewhere. Are there cleaner solutions, antennas that plug into the back, or stay inside the case? I know Ethernet is an option, I would have to run the cables myself through the attic. I'd of course appreciate possible solutions for the GPU problem. Are there some cheap cards I could use temporarily, or would it make sense to wait for a Ryzen 5 3600G? Any other case recommendations? Any other monitor recommendations? What options are there for getting the build down to $1600-1700? Or even lower?

Budget (including currency): $700-$800 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, premier pro, gta V, minecraft, cs go, overwatch, etc. PLEASE READ FULL Dont ask me where, or how, but i am getting the GTX 1060 6gb and a Quadro P2200 5gb for almost the same price. I am building the pc for mostly blender rendering, 3D animation and game development. I will also be doing so casual gaming. I just don't know which one of the two to choose. Thanks for any suggestions in advance.

Budget (including currency): $700-800 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, premier pro, cs go, minecraft, pubg pc, league of legends, overwatch, etc. i wanted to know if an i5 9400f is good enough for 3d rendering and little bit animation in blender. i havnt thought about the gpu yet, but i think i'll be going for the 1050ti, or if budget allows, a 1650super, cant get anything higher right now. will be upgrading on future tho. so i just wanted to know if the 9400f if capable enough for some small scale renders as i am just starting as a begginer to blender

Budget (including currency): $1500-$2500 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, PrusaSlicer, etc. Games and Music Storage/Production. Other details: I’m interested in building a computer with full use and support of PCIe 4.0 and over clocking. One question I have is whether or not I need a PCIe 4.0 GPU when it seems having your ram and SSD on the PCIe 4.0 lanes is where the benefit is?

I'm on a $250 budget but will be using COMSOL for some fluid simulations and Blender to model some machines. Ultimately, all of this will need 64 GB of RAM and a mere 500 GB of storage. Optimally, I'm shooting for +20 cores.

My specs right now are i5 9400f gtx 1660 ti and a 16gb of ram one 92mm fan and a cheap crappy cpu cooler from intel

Budget (including currency): £500 (give or take; preferably take) Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Solidworks, Fusion 360, Illustrator, FL Studio, Ableton, Keyshot, Premiere Hello all, First time user of this forum and new to the idea of building a computer. Currently using a second hand CAD machine from an office. I've got a pretty intensive Blender project underway spanning the space of several months and have been seriously suffering with cycles render times. This is a pretty CPU intensive task so that's the main focus of the upgrade / rebuild. I'm also planning on doing some Eevee rendering (which uses the GPU) - add on top of that the fact that my current GPU is not compatible with Premiere. Struggling to justify the steep costs however as I'm not much of a gamer. I do also produce music but I don't see this as being a big factor in my reason to upgrade. Another struggle I've had is big lag with large CAD assemblies. I'd basically like my computer to be a beast at all of the softwares listed above. I've very quickly thrown together a parts list with some help from a friend and was hoping for some feedback. I would be very appreciative of any advice! And for those interested, I'm toying with the idea of throwing this all in a Mac G5 case as I think they're damn good looking. I've got a 3D printer to do all the mounting with. Current specs: Proposed parts list: Many thanks in advance, Franky

Pls render this one for me as my PC ain't up to the mark. Use Blender 2.90 if possible Thank You finally.blend

Which of these GPUs will be better for Blender currently and after intervals of 3 and 6 months if software optimization were taken into account and how will the 16 GB vram on RX 6800 affect the productivity and gaming performance on games such as Cyberpunk 2077, against 8 GB of RTX 3070?

Hello I put together a low budget workstation for concept artist (2d preproduction digital artist), and I'm gonna use it soon to challenge some professional mates that have huge powerful rigs \m/ Components: -Pi 4B/ 8gb , OC cpu 2Ghz gpu 750 -Ice tower cooler, no thermal pads, yes thermal paste !! OS: -Raspberri Pi OS 64 Softwear Installed: - Blender 2.79b - Gimp Additional hardware I found around: - Wacom intuos pro medium. - Monitor ASUS art bla bla bla - Keyboard Logitec G910 (cost more then the Pi4b^^) - Mouse Logitec G5 (I use those components I had around on my garage, very easy to replace them with other cheaper components you can find second hand) Everything run smooth and the system is stable. The temperature even if cpu and gpu are OC thanks to the ICE tower cooler and the use of thermal paste instead of the pads are low even under "heavy workload" (never above 45C). Gimp is very snappy and the brushes pressure sensitivity work very well. Blender work just fine as a support for your 2d art and run perfectly for learning proposes (beginner). This can be the ideal solution for many parents that see some kind of interest on visual art on their kids or for people that have very limited budget.

Budget (including currency): not final and set but somewhure under and arround 6k (eu) willing to go under or over if it makes sence for the build. Country: netherlands. Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: blender, maybe some adobe after effects, other than that light stuff. Other details (it will get a m.2 2tb ssd and other than that run from a nas. and it will highly probably be a pre-build by steigerdynamics.): so the big question is. i could opt in for 2x a 4090, but since nvlink is dead i honoustly don't know if it would even make sense. i could also do 2x 3090, but that feels wrong (the more vram is nice tho because nvlink). another option would be getting an a6000 but this option is starting to reach out my budget way to far. other parts: ddr5 128gb i9 13900k motherboard z690/z790 (also could use some advise here if there is something i could be missing here.)

Budget: 2000 usd(might be willing to go 2500) Country: United States of america Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: main concern is blender, however I will be playing a few graphics costly games, eg halo inf, mechwarrior5, and ark. Other details: this is a ground up build, however I will need a keyboard and headset as the only nessicairy peripherals. It will be replacing my msi titan gt80vr laptop, I have a monitor but I don't know it's specs and I do plan on replacing it sometime In the future.

Budget (including currency): $1000 US Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: programs: OBS, DaVinci, Blender. Games: Skyrim, Minecraft, ROMs, Final Fantasy, Gmod, many others that are not notable like golf with friends. (Over all I plan to expand my library of games as soon as I get this pc done. ) Other details: I would like to at least play 1080p, 4K being amazing. I mostly want to use this as a budget $1000 pc but of course I know to expect to pay more then that especially when I want lots of storage, a decent cpu and gpu, and other parts that are good so they last a long Time. These pc parts are what I’m hoping can get me a pc that’s over all good with gaming/streaming at the same time and then using blender to make 3d models and animations while possibly also recording the process of doing so. I know this pc won’t be perfect but if I can have blender open and not crash as soon as I open it and my normal games I play not be stuck at a permanent 5-20 fps that would be amazing. So please if you have anything you think I should change please tell me. I’m all ears. Parts: CPU: Intel Core i5-10600K 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor Cpu cooler: NZXT Kraken M22 Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard: MSI MPG Z490 GAMING PLUS ATX LGA1200 Motherboard Ram: Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory Storage: TEAMGROUP MS30 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive GPU: Zotac GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GAMING Twin Edge OC Video Card Power supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GA 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Case: (debating between the two) Deepcool CK560 ATX Mid Tower Case or NZXT H510 Flow ATX Mid Tower Case (think I might go for this one due to the white case on the other is up more money then usual) Please help me! What I use right now is a laptop from about 2013-2014 (around) that was made to be a office laptop mostly. I’ve always just dealt with how horrible it was with gaming. The only other pc I have available to me is a pc from 2007, it’s from when I was younger and played disc games, the pc doesn’t work anymore due to most of the parts being dead and not worth trying to take any parts from. Again if you have anything to change please do tell me!

Hello all, my current video post-production workstation has AMD 3900x, MSI MEG MB, 64GB ram, RTX3090 + RTX2080Ti (Windows 11 latest) and I am wondering if it is possible to use multiple gpu demanding software effectively. To be more specific ... I use Davinci Resolve for video editing, Photoshop for graphics, Blender for 3d animation and rendering, After Effects (for you know, effects), Media Encoder and I hate that i have to turn on and off all these programs to be able to fully use any of them. I mean .. when I use Davinci Resolve, it takes full usage of GPU (for cache previews, prerenders) and I am no longer able to jump into Blender and fully use the Optix and Denoise tools for previews and rendering, because Davinci doesnt let the GPU go. My basic sollution for this is just to quit Davinci Resolve and start it up again when I am done with other stuff. But these programs are pain to launch. Davinci takes maybe a minute to launch and when you do this 20-30times a day then it can be bad for efficiency reasons. Same story with Photoshop and After Effects. So my question is: Is it possible for Windows to maybe prioritize GPU for certain programs? Or is there any workaround? (Like there is an option for priorities in task manager - anything like this for gpus?) Thanks for any answers! JS

Budget (including currency): $10.000 Country: Slovenia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Unreal Engine 5, Visual Studio, Blender, etc. Other details: Hello there! I'm a modeler that decided to gather up a team of friends to create out own game, as it is our dream to do so. Some of us have experience with a specific thing but none of us has worked with Unreal Engine before, although we are using it to make the game. I am the person that mainly works on UE5 and I also lead the team. While I do have quite a good PC for games and whatnot, I'd like to get myself an actual workstation to be able to work on it faster, more easily, etc. I already know every component and everything else I need to build the workstation (put it all together to estimate the price here https://pangoly.com/en/build/share/2022/10/12/custom/07ff8a03-5305-4ed8-80e7-509a006473fa), after which I realized, that's a lot of money. To be honest, I'd like to buy it even though I have no money for it, and anything lesser then that will simply not be good enough for me (Don't ask me why, that's simply the best workstation possible and since any workstation for UE5 will cost a few grand, why not go top tier). PS. my current setup: Asus Prime H510 m-e motherboard Intel core i5-11400F (6 cores. 12 threads, 2.60 GHz base speed, 4.2 GHz max), in process of buying it a cooler (Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer II 240) 64GB of RAM (2x32GB sticks, 3200 MHZ) Nvidia RTX 3060 Pegasus, 12GB VRam 3TB of storage It is really good for games and all, but not as much for development. The processor is too weak, slowing my progress down by, a lot. I will probably not ever get the money, so image this as a hypothetical question. Do you think I am planning to get a too good of a PC, or rather, is this overkill? The project I am working on would be as big as games like The Witcher 3, Skyrim V, RDR2, etc. (If you have so much money you don't know where to spend it, tell me, I need it for this build, cause I don't have it lmao)

Budget (including currency): $800 Country: America Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Unity, Minecraft (with mods), Roblox Other details: My current parts are: Intel Core i5 11400F, EVGA Geforce GTX 1650 Super SC Ultra Gaming 4GB, ASUS Prime Z590-P WiFi LGA 1200 (Intel 11th/10th Gen) ATX Motherboard, Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB V2, TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta RGB DDR4 16GB (2x8GB) 3600MHz, Crucial P2 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD, NZXT H510, and the Thermaltake Smart BM2 650W 80+ Bronze. I am slightly over budget and would like suggestions to make it fit in my budget. I am buying all the parts from amazon. I haven't bought the parts yet, just trying to make in fit in my budget and as best as it can be. Thanks!

Budget (including currency): ZAR 18000 Country: South Africa Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft, Steam (KSP, FSX, War Thunder, and similar), MS 365, 3D modeling and rendering for FDM printing (Blender, Fusion 360) Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Replacing a Core 2 Quad with 4GB on an ASUS P5Q mobo with a Samsung EVO 850 SSD (so very old, and dying). I have a 27" Samsung SA550. Keyboards and mice not too important, I'm not a serious gamer. Looking at getting the following at a total cost of around ZAR 15000: ASUS B660M-A Prime DDR4 Intel Core I5-12600K CPU Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4-3200 Kit (2x8GB) - CL16, 1.35V, White Corsair CX-M 650W Modular PSU DeepCool Macube 110 Micro-ATX Chassis Corsair CX-M 650W Modular PSU In Win Saturn ASN140 ARGB Fan x2 DeepCool GammaXX 400S CPU Cooler Seagate FireCuda 530 500GB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD Could you advise on a Graphic Card - RTX or GTX or RX?

Budget (including currency): 750~1000€ Country: Bulgaria Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mainly Blender (3d modelling + rendering), Spine Pro, Quixel Mixer (maybe), Clip Studio Paint, To a lesser extent Da Vinci Resolve, Light Gaming (I mostly play Indie) and maybe very later down the line some music/audio related projects. Right, so my PC went kaput recently - started BSOD-ing constantly, the mobo fried (clean your PC regularly kids) and now, when i turn it on, the screen is pitch-black and the PC doesn't turn off unless i manually shut the PSU down. So, i guess I'm in the market for a new Build. I do however also have a lot of questions. The main bottleneck I'm worrying about is my own skill level, as I'm still an amateur, to put it kindly. I also have some health issues, though temporary (I hope), that currently limit how much work I can do on a pc (nothing severe, but still a detriment). As such, I'm reluctant to spend too much money on something I probably wont be able to utilise fully, at least until both my skills and health improve; however I also don't really want to screw myself with something particularly bad either. I've boiled my options down to 2 potentially flexible variants: V1. The Low Budget Variant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bF4jv3 ~720€ V2. The Higher Budget One: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Nkgh2m ~1040€ I already have the PSU, the Monitor, some HDDs, an old ~128gb SSD with Windows installed and the Case to cannibalise from my previous build, also I don't know if it affects much but I also have an XP-Pen Display Tablet (so a second monitor essentially). I have been planning on switching to Linux as well due to general frustration with Windows and maybe keeping the old SSD for a dual-boot in case I need something specific. As a slight add I generally use this site: https://www.pazaruvaj.com/harduer-c3068/ to compare prices from local retailers; It doesn't have all of them and some are a bit shady, but it's otherwise been a good help. As it stands I'll probably order most, or at least a good chunk, of my parts from the retailer Plasico, so i don't have to worry about shipping from too many places and it's a fairly well liked store (if this info even matters). Just a heads up the prices are in lv./лв. so just slash whatever you see in half and you'll get the actual € value. A Thousand and One Questions: Q1: For V2 is it possible to go for 16gb RAM? Q2: For V2 is it also possible to go for a B450? Q3: Would a R5 3600 work with a 3060, or would it bottleneck and affect render times too much? Q4: Should I upgrade later, since apparently new parts would be coming out by the end of year and things might reduce in price? Q5: Or now, to avoid soaring prices if inflation and supply chain stuff is at too high a risk? Q6: Or am i overthinking it? Q7: How useful would an NVME be, or is it more of a luxury buy? Q8: Is it preferred to install the OS on a separate partition and/or drive or is it unnecessary? Q9: Is resell-ability something I should keep in mind when buying a system or does tech advance too fast for it to matter? Q10: Should I worry about BIOS version compatibility or is upgrading it easy enough? That's about it for now, I think. I hope this isn't too hard of a read, I don't really post on forums much. Thank you in advance for any help. Have a good one.

Hi. I might buy a Dell Inspiron 3910 (I think?) with a 12400: https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-desktops-workstations/inspiron-desktop/spd/inspiron-3910-desktop/di3910_s6015m2f?gacd=9683780-3004-5761040-266662033-0&dgc=st&gclid=CjwKCAiAyfybBhBKEiwAgtB7fhJl9qlLD18W7LfkvCujpRtp0kp6p3f6JuO4A6VeBBpE0hDMxCHldRoC_48QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&nclid=X-oODAwECjyjumWS-Ewwzl1Q0AFoDSDm8p20QLPdXeZ7ig2OptYEw9UsFUOqCiJw The 12400's base clock speed is slower than a 12100's. In fact, its *base* speed is also slower than my current 3770 cpu. But 2 benchmark sites says 12400 is better than 12100. And 12400 has more cores! So it shouldn't matter, right? Is the 12400 clearly better for 3d animation, video editing? (and I might game. Might not, tho). Or could a smaller psu or inadequate cooling make the 12400 worse? i.e. Would I have to spend more money on extra fans or something? Blender's Benchmarks: https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=CPU&group_by=device_name&blender_version=3.3.0 (Type in 12100 or 12400. Higher score is better). CPU Benchmark: 12100: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-12100&id=4687 12400: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-12400&id=4677 My old 3770 cpu: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-3770+%40+3.40GHz&id=896 Also, any idea how its build quality would compare to a pc built for $750 Cad (free shipping)? Let me know, thanks!

I have been looking into getting into Motion Capture ever since I started getting into Game Design and Development back in 2018. It seems like the most prominent search results are for subscription based software and some of those require costly equipment. There is support for Blender with these programs, but is it possible to do Motion Capture with only Blender and a DIY suit? If so, what links can you point me towards, suggestions on where I should start, or if you think this is not achievable to begin with please state why.