Rendering Shuttle PC

[MzCatieB]

So I am interested in building a small Shuttle PC for rendering 3d animations in 3DS and Maya.

Does Anyone have any suggestions?

I need a workstation GPU like a Nvidia Quadro or AMD Firepro but I am not sure on what to do with the Motherboard and CPU cause I would normally do a larger PC on a server motherboard with Duel CPU's but iv recently moved to a smaller place and I don't have the room for it any more.

[Sashi]

You can get any CPU and Motherboard combo honestly... 3770K oc it, works great for rendering.

Xeons are considered to be more "stable" if you're going to use it as a renderbox 24/7

[Eric1024]

Well there are no m-atx boards or m-itx boards that support lga 2011 xeons (I just looked), so I would advise something like a rampage IV Gene and a 3930k or a 3970x if you have a lot of money to throw around and want the extra 5-10%, and for a gpu, look at something like a quadro k5000 *if* you have the money to throw around

[Sashi]

A 3770K is LGA1155.. but okay..

[Dodge]

Shuttle is actually a brand. They use their own boards and their own formfactor.

Since you would have gone for a dual cpu system, LGA2011 is probably the right choice. Either you buy a Shuttle-PC from Shuttle or you go for a µATX system. A real Shuttle-PC is probably smaller, louder and hotter than a µATX system.

[Dodge]

Shuttle is actually a brand. They use their own boards and their own formfactor.

Since you would have gone for a dual cpu system, LGA2011 is probably the right choice. Either you buy a Shuttle-PC from Shuttle or you go for a µATX system. A real Shuttle-PC is probably smaller, louder and hotter than a µATX system.

And no crossposting please, it's just annoying.

[MzCatieB]

In all honesty, after watching Linus's video from CES over the 900D, i am very tempted to make a new Production Desktop then make a smaller form factor Rendering machine using a 600T or a vulcan

[Jrjy3]

For the motherboard, you could probably go with either an ASUS Maximus V Gene, or you could go with a Gigabyte G1 Sniper M3. For the processor, I would suggest the i7 3770k as it has Hyper Threading, which is great for rendering.

[BOBWARPATH]

id say buy a barebones unit from amazon for 300-400 dollars, sell the chassis and or rebuild in a new case. they have nice dual cpu servers on there...