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Budget (including currency): $2000 Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CoD Warzone, Cinema4d, After Effects, OctaneRender, Unreal 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): Planning to buy in January, i play games at 1080p at 144hz Hey folks, I'm planning my first build and have been researching a ton on what would make a great 3D workstation. I've been working off of macbooks for several years but would like something with a little more power now that I'm working cinema4d into my process. I'm looking at the i9-9900k and the GTX 1660 TI. Ideally, I'd like to get a mobo with two M.2 slots, and two pcie slots for gpu expansion. However, now I know the Ryzen series pack a ton more power. Am I shooting myself in the foot going the intel route? I know that bottlenecks can happen between a cpu and gpu. Also, now that pci-e 4.0 will be a thing do I need to plan for that as well? I'm still new to pc building and haven't really caught up with the latest tech so hopefully I can get a little more informed before building this thing. I'm not trying to future proof but I'd like this rig to last. This is the parts list I've got going at the moment: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/RamenKing/saved/zrkxsY Thanks in advance.

Budget (including currency): below 700 usd Country: Turkey but doesnt matter i know the us market and gave the budget according to that so actually USA it is Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cinema4D and Allplan both 2021 No gaming at all like only these 2 programs are important. Sometimes autocad too. Other details : im on a 1080p monitor, i just need a pc no keyboard or monitor. I DONT need a ssd or hdd im going to be using my older ones. I want at least 8 cores and 16 threads, more would be welcome and at least 16 gbs of ram. I heavily rely on cpu, about gpu i was thinking about cheap quadros but any suggestions are welcome too. Budget is at most 700 us dollars not much i know. Oh and it would be really good if motherboard had wifi and bluetooth. Another important thing is i want it to be as silent as possible. Thank you already.

Budget (including currency): 1300~ dollars Country: turkey Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cinema 4d, allplan, auto cad, daily use, no gaming Other details : PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wfHGFg CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 360 56.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard: Asus PRIME B760M-A D4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory Storage: Western Digital Black SN770 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Video Card: PNY T-Series T400 2GB 2 GB Video Card Case: Asus Prime AP201 MicroATX Mini Tower Case Power Supply: be quiet! Pure Power 11 500 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply Monitor: LG 26WQ500-B 25.7" 2560 x 1080 75 Hz Monitor Total: $1368.11 Also going to use 1tb hdd from prev Pc. am i cheaping out on gpu? From my experience i dont need a faster gpu but i am open to suggestions. I draw room interiors on autocad or allplan than extract it to cinema to render it and have an picture like room decors. My main point is to get faster render times i am currently using a 3th gen i7 and a very basic old passive cooled quadro gpu

Good evening stunners so it’s finally time for me to buy a new laptop but i am a bit overwhelmed with the options. So the budget is around 2500 chf/dollars (almost the same i believe). It should handle cinema 4d (main reason) and all the other Adobe content creation applications. It should at least have 32 gb ram and 1 tb ssd space. I was also thinking a 3070? Does that makes even sense? But the display is also very important to me that is colour accurate. Thank you so much in advance for your help Liebe Grüsse aus der Schweiz

There is a Brand New version of cinebench released by Maxon today, wich makes it a very quick release following Cinebench R20, wich was released in March 2019 This new version supports Apples new M1 Powered mashines The rendered image is the same, but the scoring is alot different, so it is not comparable to R20 This version also now shows the single core benchmark w/o needing to enable the advanced options, and features a build in stress test where the test loops for 10 or 20 minutes Sources https://www.maxon.net/en/products/cinebench-r23-overview/

I am having an issue where cinema 4d freezes randomly and sometimes never recovers requiring me to close it from task manager. I am working on renderings of fairly large scenes, but the cpu is barely used and my ram is never over 30%. When this occurs, the memory usage of c4d gets stuck and does not change. this occurs sometimes in other software as well, but c4d/octane is the majority of my workflow. Is there something I can do about this? I need to be able to speed up my workflow and this is a big hindrance. specs: cpu: i9 7900x ram: 64gb gskill 3200 gpu: 1080ti, 2080ti mobo: msi tomahawk ac os drive: samsung 970 evo 1tb

Hey guys, Purpose of this thread: Build a high end Cinema4D/Octane/X-Partices animation system capable of single machine rendering/particle caching as fast as possible. Budget: Open. Range is $3000-$10,000, can go higher if price to performance is justified. Region: USA, Milwaukee Wisconsin. Airflow and Overclock: Air cooled only, no water and no overclocking due to IT department constraints. Learn about near future hardware and how I might want to wait rather than build one now. I make stuff like this (one of my projects): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMCfZL9HgSk I do these solo and they take me forever both on the "I don't know what I'm doing front," and on the rendering/caching front. My manager might be asking if I need to upgrade my system and/or software sometime in the next 12 months. The problem is, I don't know a lot about what hardware (and to some extent, software) I need, or if newer hardware is even worth it. My current hardware: OS: Windows 64bit CPU: Intel i7-6900K @ 3.2 GHz RAM: 128GB SSD: M2 EVO 970 2TB GPU1: Nvidia Quadro M5000 GPU2: Nvidia Quadro M5000 GPU3: Nvidia GTX 1080 My current software: Cinema4D R19 PolyTrans64 PolyTrans64 PTC Granite X-Particles 4 Octane Premiere Pro CC After Effects CC Photoshop CC For research, I recently watched two of LTT's videos on this topic: https://youtu.be/G-90qEJAVkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EcMKg7awXg Key takeaways: Video 1: Granted, the focus of the first video is all about CAD software (I do not use CAD software), it looks like the Quadro's do a great job at performance over the gaming cards. Nothing modern for me to look at that I've seen though as far as comparisons go. Nvidia's website has over a dozen cards to choose from. Plus, with me likely coming into this next year and with Nvidia's 3000 lineup coming, unsure what I ultimately should be focused on. Video 1: Graphic's cards in SLI in programs such as Solidworks (as shown in first video) does not benefit. That being said, Octane in Cinema4D does use all the cards. However, I am unsure if X-Particles does and this is a very important piece of my workflow. This first video from 2018 lands @ the P6000 for best single card performance. Video 1: Linus says in the first video single core performance is king, but again, focus on that video is CAD software (eg softworks) as opposed to animation software (eg Cinema4D) and I am unsure if that is what I should be focused on. He mentions the core count is important when it comes to rendering, which is important for me because my renders sometimes take 36 hours for a 20 second animation - would really like to get that under 12. Video 2: Looks like the RTX 8000 is what I'd be looking for if I purchased one today. My current workflow is as follows: I am asked by a member of specific departmental management team to animate a particular product we have. I reach out to an engineer in the respective department to provide me the CAD file. They use a program called CREO or ProEngineer. They typically provide those to me in STP file-types. I import those STP files into a program called "PolyTrans64" using their "PTC Granite" Plugin to convert them to .C4D files with a 0.060 quality ratio. Typical assembly count can reach as high as 1800 and the converted C4D files can reach 1.8GB. I do not know if this is the best approach, because the wireframes look like a mess, but the final product often looks nice. See image: (Octane Renderer). I then spend forever organizing the 1,800 objects into null folders, then texturing those objects using textures downloaded from Polligon (because I'll never understand texture creation myself). I then have the managers write me a script, I put it into a script template, and I get to work on animating fluids/gasses/explosions first, then mechanical movements, then render drafts. Frankly as an aside if anyones good at these programs/plugins and are available for private tutoring sessions, please email me @ Smith.Brandon@basco.com. TLDR: I am looking for a high end animation system in Cinema4D/Octane/X-Particles that renders faster, caches faster, and performs better when viewing 2,000 part animation files while simultaneously running ~5,000 particles within the program, and this system will be purchased sometime in the next 12 months and could use your advice. Thanks guys.

I just did a CPU and GPU benchmark via cinebench CPU - Ryzen 7 1700, GPU - GTX 1060 6 GB 16 Gigs Corsair vengeance LPX 2400 CPU score(single core) - 111 Multi core - 1120 GPU - 67.32 I want to make 3D short film(Around 4 min.) using maya Will this system will able to handle complex simulations and give good render time? Thanks

Hi guys, I have an option to buy the ASUS ROG G752VY (GTX 1070, 17in) for a Mobile Octane Render machine, or buy a much less powerful laptop like the acer predator 15 (with 1060 6gb) with a GTX 1080 Ti upgrade for my desktop. Considering their combined value is as almost the same as the ROG G752VY. What makes me uncertain about the 1080ti path is that I have an Intel i7-6700K, which I understand only supports 16 PCIE lanes. I have one GTX 1080 Reference card sitting at my Asus Z170 motherboard now and I plan to use them both. Will the split 8x PCIE mode affect their speeds or bottlenecks in some scenario? Or I'm better of investing with the ROG? Thank you for your time and answers!

Hey everyone! I've been an LMG fan for a few weeks now and I may have probably binged at least 150 videos. This is my first post and I'm glad to be a part of the community! Anyways, I'm having a bit of trouble. I'm an editor in need of some render assistance. I have an AMD 6350 off-the-shelf system. I am trying to render a rather long and complex animation from Cinema4D. Unfortunately, after the extensive 422-hour process it took my computer to export the project the video file was corrupt. Instead of attempting to troubleshoot the issue, as I have rendered smaller shorter projects just fine, I'm looking for another solution. Another 422-hour render just isn't something I want to go through. I'm hoping someone may be able to render this file for me, with their more adept system, and send me the raw export. Files required would be shared via Google Drive. If you have any better suggestions, ideas, or somewhere else to post, let me know! Edit: I've looked into some render farms, but I just don't have the funds for that right now.

Hello everyone, This is my first post ever after joining the LTT forum community and I need your help since I couldn't find any concrete answers anywhere else. Last month I brought a budget PC for myself with the following configuration: CPU: Ryzen 2700X (on stock prism cooler, with an aggressive fan curve) GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060 (Aorus Gigabyte twin fan version) RAM: 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance 3000Mhz (clocked to 3000Mhz) MoBo: Aorus B450 Pro Wifi (ATX) 1 x 256GB Aorus RGB M.2 Nvme SSD 1 x 250GB WD Green SATA SSD 1 x 1TB 5400rpm Laptop hard drive (that I salvaged from the potato laptop I owned before this build) 1 x 2TB 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda HDD Cooling solutions: I have 3 Antec case fans I bought and 1 corsair fan that came with the case. It's a Corsair 175R. Config is as follows: Two Antec fans at the front blast inwards, top Antec fan blow it up and out, and rear fan is also out. I live in Mumbai, India, with my room's ambient temperatures always siting around 26-29 degrees (yea I know). I'm an avid AAA title gamer and also a productive person with my work needing me to fire up softwares such as Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, FL Studio, Keyshot, Cinema4D. The idle temps of my build is around 42-43 degrees. Here's my problem: Sometimes, I have renders that take more than 20+ hours and my temperatures sit at 70-72 degrees for the whole duration. My question is - is that alright? Or will that trouble me in a huge way in the future? I do think about liquid cooling but right now, after buying this PC, my girlfriend will kill me if I invest any more money into a computer I have already taken the front panel out and that helps a lot with the cooling as it was around 76 - 80 degrees with the front panel attached. Also, for those few who need more technical details, please find some screenshots attached. As for the overclocking bit - I've left it to the motherboard to do it on auto for me; so on lower temps I get a nice 4.25Ghz on all cores (at least that's what it shows on Ryzen Master). Another last note - any game I play doesn't get the CPU this high, it sits comfortably around 55 - 59 degrees. I've played SOTTR, Far Cry 5, New Dawn, AC Origins and Odyssey, etc. So no problem gaming and I game only for 3 - 4 hours daily on an average. So please help me guys - is a 70 degrees on a Ryzen 2700X continuous for more than 20+ hours harmful?

Budget (including currency): 3,000 USD Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Resolve & C4D I was about to buy a new 6k editing workstation but I saw the impact of rendering using hardware encoding on Premiere 14.2 and Media Encoder using NVIDIA GPUs (something that we weren't able to do). I saw that if your gpu is faster you will get faster results so now idk if you spend that much money on a Ryzen Threadripper 3960x, change it for a Ryzen 3900x and put more money on the GPU and RAM. I'm gonna be recording on BMPCC 6k raw. You can see the article of Puget Systems about the performance of Hardware Encoding. What do you guys think about the new hardware encoding? And what advice can you give me on building the 6k editing workstation? I don't have to make the purchase soon, should I wait for the new Ryzen cpus and RTX 3000 series? Thank you guys, this community rocks Other details: This is what I thought before hardware encoding came out for Premiere 14.2. Part List

Hello every body, I'm looking for a decent grafic card for some video editing and animtion (in 1080p mostly) in Adobe After Affects and Cinema 4D. The video editing will be done in Adobe Premiere Pro. Also I will be doing some Photo editing most likely with Zoner Photo Studio X. I will not be doing it on daily bases just occasionaly. I DO NOT game on the PC. And the second biggest task I will be doing on this PC will be music editing and sheet music writing. I don't really have a budeget for it but I am looking for something in the GTX 1060 price range (500 USD is about the max I want to go). At this point of time I am very confused what to buy with the new Nvidia chips coming out. So please help me someone. My current system: MOBO: MSI B350 Arctic Tomahawk CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X RAM: G.Skill Ripjaw 2x8GB (planning to uprgade to 32Gb total) DDR4 3200Mhz CL 16 SSD: Samsung 970 EVO NVMe PSU: Seasonic S12II 620W Bronze Current GPU: Palit GTS 250 - Needs to be replaced with the new one I am looking for. http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/9963097 And if someone had a good tip on a monitor for a price to 120-150 USD it would be great. Sending my biggest thankyou to Canada and US from Central Europe.

I'm learning motion graphics, trying to increase my portfolio i'm planing to build a pc until the end of the year. These are the parts that i have on my list: Ryzen 7 2700X ATX X470 AORUS GAMING 5 16 gb of ram (not sure which one) Gtx 950 that i already have (planing to upgrade later to use octane) So, what you guys think, i'm not sure what Power supply i'll need, about the gpu im thinking around a 1070ti. Have in mind that im not a professional, this build is to upgrade my oldie i5 4400.

Hey everyone, first time poster. I'm getting ready to start purchasing parts for my new build (first build ever, in fact), and wanted to get last minute impressions from the folks on this forum. I'm going with the Cerberus small form factor case, which shouldn't leave a lot of room. Originally I was going to go with a water cooler, but my fear of leakage got the best of me and I switched over to the NH-C14S. The graphics cards are pretty much going to be whatever i can get at a good deal over time. I'll start out with a single 1080 FE or 1080 ti, and hopefully add another in when the 1160 is released. I'm going with the blower model since there probably won't be a lot of air movement in the case (which is also why i'm loading up on case fans). What does everyone think? Has anyone built with a Cerberus case, and if so what was your experience like? Thanks! PCPartPicker Build Permalink CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($298.99 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-C14S 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler ($74.90 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI - Z370M GAMING PRO AC Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($146.38 @ Newegg) Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($360.98 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($109.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($109.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: NVIDIA - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Founders Edition Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($729.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: NVIDIA - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Founders Edition Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($729.99 @ Amazon) Case: Kimera - KIC11U Cerberus Mini MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($290.99) Power Supply: SilverStone Technology SX800-LTI 800W, SFX-L, 80 Plus Titanium, Modular Power Supply with Japanese Capacitors ($179.99) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit ($129.89 @ OutletPC) Case Fan: Prolimatech - PRO-USV14-WH 98.0 CFM 140mm Fan Case Fan: Prolimatech - PRO-USV14-WH 98.0 CFM 140mm Fan Case Fan: Noctua - NF-A9 PWM 46.4 CFM 92mm Fan ($16.59 @ OutletPC) Case Fan: Noctua - NF-A12x15 PWM 55.4 CFM 120mm Fan ($19.95 @ Amazon) Total: $3198.62

I'm looking to build my new Motion-Design PC. The programs which I will use are Rendering with CPU (Cinema4D, Nuke...) and GPU (After Effects, Octane...). CPU: Intel Core i7 6800K (LGA 2011-v3, 3.40GHz, Unlocked) Graphics Card: 2x EVGA GTX 980 Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Motherboard: ASUS X99-A II (LGA 2011-v3, Intel X99, ATX) RAM: Corsair Vengeance LED (4x, 8GB, DDR4-3000) (Probably gonna upgrade to 8x8GB later?) Storage 1: Samsung 950 Pro (256GB, M.2 2280) Storage 2: Samsung 850 EVO Basic (1000GB, 2.5") Power Supply: Corsair RM850x (850W) CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Case: Corsair Carbide 400C Operating System: Windows 10 So my questions for this build are: Is this Motherboard a good choice and is the RAM compatible with it? Is the Power Supply good, or would the RM750x be strong enough? Is it better to buy 2x GTX 980 Ti (5632 CUDA Cores) or wait for the upcoming GTX 1080 Ti (3456 CUDA Cores)?

What is the difference between these pieces of software in terms of their uses? Is After Effects designed for motion graphics while Cinema4D is aimed at animation/3D modelling?

Hello guys as you know from the title i want to buy Cinema 4d studio but don't know where to go or how to i mean i want it with a cheap price you know what i mean