Research PC

[GiftedNovaHD]

Budget (including currency): 25K (SGD)

Country: Singapore

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: A.I research, simulation of protein folding and heavy rendering. Theoretical Physics

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):  

I am going to get a custom loop which costs another 600 USD(exclusive of fans). This is definitely not for gaming but we may game if we feel like it. I did this post to ask the forum about their thoughts and opnions on this insane build. The prices shown below are in USD for the majority of the users living in the US. BTW: 1 USD = 1.35 SGD at my time of posting

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Threadripper 3990X 2.9 GHz 64-Core Processor	$3699.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Asus ROG ZENITH II EXTREME ALPHA EATX sTRX4 Motherboard	$849.99 @ B&H
Memory	Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 256 GB (8 x 32 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$1207.58 @ Amazon
Storage	Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$449.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$449.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Toshiba X300 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$282.49 @ Amazon
Video Card	PNY Quadro RTX 8000 48 GB Video Card	$5529.00 @ Amazon
Case	Corsair 1000D ATX Full Tower Case	$418.52 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair 1600 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$531.49 @ Amazon
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit	$142.88 @ Other World Computing
Case Fan	Corsair LL120RGB LED (Three Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fans	$129.99 @ Best Buy
Case Fan	Corsair LL120RGB LED (Three Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fans	$129.99 @ Best Buy
Monitor	Asus ROG SWIFT PG27UQ 27.0" 3840x2160 144 Hz Monitor	$1264.93 @ Amazon
Monitor	Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor	$588.79 @ Amazon
Monitor	Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor	$588.79 @ Amazon
Custom	Corsair Commander Pro	Purchased For $99.00
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$16363.41
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-04 08:28 EDT-0400

 

[MiinD]

3 minutes ago, GiftedNovaHD said:

Budget (including currency): 25K (SGD)

Country: Singapore

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: A.I research, simulation of protein folding and heavy rendering. Theoretical Physics

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):  

I am going to get a custom loop which costs another 600 USD(exclusive of fans). This is definitely not for gaming but we may game if we feel like it. I did this post to ask the forum about their thoughts and opnions on this insane build. The prices shown below are in USD for the majority of the users living in the US. BTW: 1 USD = 1.35 SGD at my time of posting

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Threadripper 3990X 2.9 GHz 64-Core Processor	$3699.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Asus ROG ZENITH II EXTREME ALPHA EATX sTRX4 Motherboard	$849.99 @ B&H
Memory	Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 256 GB (8 x 32 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$1207.58 @ Amazon
Storage	Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$449.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$449.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Toshiba X300 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$282.49 @ Amazon
Video Card	PNY Quadro RTX 8000 48 GB Video Card	$5529.00 @ Amazon
Case	Corsair 1000D ATX Full Tower Case	$418.52 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair 1600 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$531.49 @ Amazon
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit	$142.88 @ Other World Computing
Case Fan	Corsair LL120RGB LED (Three Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fans	$129.99 @ Best Buy
Case Fan	Corsair LL120RGB LED (Three Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fans	$129.99 @ Best Buy
Monitor	Asus ROG SWIFT PG27UQ 27.0" 3840x2160 144 Hz Monitor	$1264.93 @ Amazon
Monitor	Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor	$588.79 @ Amazon
Monitor	Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor	$588.79 @ Amazon
Custom	Corsair Commander Pro	Purchased For $99.00
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$16363.41
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-04 08:28 EDT-0400

 

Do u work at NASA?

[MiinD]

Maybe you could run mind sweeper at low setting not on full screen 

[Jurrunio]

Rendering certainly doesnt care whether you're on Geforce or Quadro. Seeing how folding@home is pretty much also protein folding I dont see why Quadro is a must either. I'm saying this because you can get Geforce cards much cheaper, heck even next gen Geforce at launch will be cheaper.

 

Because these workloads are so compute intensive, your storage speed doesnt matter so much anymore. I'd rather get more SATA drives to crank up the capacity.

 

RGB fans perform worse than non RGB ones in general, Corsair LL though are worse than average even among RGB fans, much prefer ML if you stick to Corsair.

[aDoomGuy]

3 minutes ago, GiftedNovaHD said:

$16363.41

 

Well..... it's not the cheapest build around the forum but I think it should perform very well in it's work scenarios. It should certainly have enough power.

[GiftedNovaHD]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Rendering certainly doesnt care whether you're on Geforce or Quadro. Seeing how folding@home is pretty much also protein folding I dont see why Quadro is a must either. I'm saying this because you can get Geforce cards much cheaper, heck even next gen Geforce at launch will be cheaper.

 

Because these workloads are so compute intensive, your storage speed doesnt matter so much anymore. I'd rather get more SATA drives to crank up the capacity.

 

RGB fans perform worse than non RGB ones in general, Corsair LL though are worse than average even among RGB fans, much prefer ML if you stick to Corsair.

My teammates chose Quadro as we are doing professional video rendering, CAD design, and actual high demand research and we need the precision. Fan wise, if you say so, I will use the ML120 then.

 

[igormp]

8 minutes ago, GiftedNovaHD said:

My teammates chose Quadro as we are doing professional video rendering, CAD design, and actual high demand research and we need the precision. Fan wise, if you say so, I will use the ML120 then.

 

Since you're going to do simulation, won't you need a FP64 enabled card? That RTX 8000 is going to suck balls in this case. 

 

I guess your best option in this scenario would be a Volta card, such as the Quadro GV100 or the Titan V CEO (both are basically the same card).

 

17 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Rendering certainly doesnt care whether you're on Geforce or Quadro. Seeing how folding@home is pretty much also protein folding I dont see why Quadro is a must either. I'm saying this because you can get Geforce cards much cheaper, heck even next gen Geforce at launch will be cheaper.

Quadro still has the advantage of tons of VRAM and ECC. Can't game a good amount of vram in any consumer card.

[Yebi]

4 minutes ago, GiftedNovaHD said:

Fan wise, if you say so, I will use the ML120 then.

Is there any reason why you want Corsair? With your budget and usecase, Noctua seems to be obvious choice

 

The advantages of double gen4 SSDs are questionable. The advantages of two 165Hz, plus one 4k@144Hz monitors on a machine that is "definitely not for gaming" - even less so. No offense, but the list kinda reads like you got yourself a very overkill budget, and are now just looking for things to blow money on, regardless of how useful they actually are

 

In terms of additions, I'd look for ECC ram, and maybe a second hard drive for RAID/redundancy, if there won't be a NAS.

[shadow_ray]

46 minutes ago, igormp said:

Since you're going to do simulation, won't you need a FP64 enabled card? That RTX 8000 is going to suck balls in this case. 

 

I guess your best option in this scenario would be a Volta card, such as the Quadro GV100 or the Titan V CEO (both are basically the same card).

 

Quadro still has the advantage of tons of VRAM and ECC. Can't game a good amount of vram in any consumer card.

Aside from tons of VRAM, If the quadro can't do double precision FP effectively, then what justifies the price? ECC memory? Optimized drivers?

[igormp]

1 hour ago, shadow_ray said:

Aside from tons of VRAM, If the quadro can't do double precision FP effectively, then what justifies the price? ECC memory? Optimized drivers?

Some quadros can do DP, such as the pascal ones and volta ones, the turing ones are the ones that didn't. Aside from that, you have ECC memory, different firmware for compute tasks, 10 bit display support, better performance on some specific softwares, full nvlink support, better warranty and tons of small features that are not really necessary for your average gamer, but might be important for professional uses.

[GiftedNovaHD]

We need the VRAM and Quadro Muscle as at least 2 to 3 of us are going to use the machine at the same time. One my teammates is doing professional modelling and the image is usually 8K, thus he needs the 48 GB of GDDR6 as even a small part of what he is doing probably requires gigabytes of GPU memory. Gaming is second choice and we definitely use it for research and CAD design more. My plan is to use 3 monitors separately to do different things at once and since we have crap that needs Quadro power, we opted for Quadro as some of us may be just leaving the Quadro to render the data sets.

[igormp]

16 minutes ago, GiftedNovaHD said:

We need the VRAM and Quadro Muscle as at least 2 to 3 of us are going to use the machine at the same time. One my teammates is doing professional modelling and the image is usually 8K, thus he needs the 48 GB of GDDR6 as even a small part of what he is doing probably requires gigabytes of GPU memory. Gaming is second choice and we definitely use it for research and CAD design more. My plan is to use 3 monitors separately to do different things at once and since we have crap that needs Quadro power, we opted for Quadro as some of us may be just leaving the Quadro to render the data sets.

If you're all going to use the computer at the same time while the quadro has 100% load, you're going to have an awful desktop experience.

[GiftedNovaHD]

9 minutes ago, igormp said:

If you're all going to use the computer at the same time while the quadro has 100% load, you're going to have an awful desktop experience.

Like we don't exactly load it up while working but instead we load it while we let it do its render while we take breaks

[igormp]

35 minutes ago, GiftedNovaHD said:

Like we don't exactly load it up while working but instead we load it while we let it do its render while we take breaks

Eh, as long as DP is not a requirement for you, then have fun with your build.