Distress call

[Ronnie_Tayie]

Hey guys.

 

I'm in need of some help here.

I have a Dell Optiplex 3020, 16GB DDR3 1666 MHz, i5 4590 and 500 GB HDD and no GPU.

 

Back story:

I am currently studying and I part time as a Developer (Web & Mobile).

I do some video editing work and some 3D rendering (Simple scenes and setups) on my system. 

she serves me well, however I have for a long time needed a GPU.

 

I have seen how and why a 1050Ti is a good fit.

However, I do fancy a M40 12GB(NVIDIA).

The reason why I think it could (Simply put) work include:

1) VRAM

2) VRAM

3) VRAM

4) It seems to be able to deliver.

5) Finally, as most GPUs are priced for a kidney, and arm, a leg and half a left testicle, something of such a caliber seems to fit and is accessible as most people don't have much a use for those. I'm in South Africa and everything is prized like MAD....

 

My questions at this point is, will the TESLA be a reasonable fit for my system (puting aside the necessary changes to the system with reguards to the case).

 

[Wolly9102]

12 minutes ago, Ronnie_Tayie said:

Hey guys.

 

I'm in need of some help here.

I have a Dell Optiplex 3020, 16GB DDR3 1666 MHz, i5 4590 and 500 GB HDD and no GPU.

 

Back story:

I am currently studying and I part time as a Developer (Web & Mobile).

I do some video editing work and some 3D rendering (Simple scenes and setups) on my system. 

she serves me well, however I have for a long time needed a GPU.

 

I have seen how and why a 1050Ti is a good fit.

However, I do fancy a M40 12GB(NVIDIA).

The reason why I think it could (Simply put) work include:

1) VRAM

2) VRAM

3) VRAM

4) It seems to be able to deliver.

5) Finally, as most GPUs are priced for a kidney, and arm, a leg and half a left testicle, something of such a caliber seems to fit and is accessible as most people don't have much a use for those. I'm in South Africa and everything is prized like MAD....

 

My questions at this point is, will the TESLA be a reasonable fit for my system (puting aside the necessary changes to the system with reguards to the case).

 

 

 

No. You need to make too much modifications to your system to the point of just buying an new workstation pc. (CPU, PSU, motherboard). If you're doing cad work on your IGPU right now I would suggest picking up that 1050ti (maybe second hand). You will notice a lot of improvement.

[RONOTHAN##]

The reason Tesla M40s are so cheap are because 

1. They don't have display outputs
2. They require cooling to be done by the case itself. 
3. If you want to modify the card to have its own cooling, it will likely be hurt to be in the same room as your system (see Craft Computing)

They're decent cards, but for what you're doing, no, it doesn't really make sense. 

[Ronnie_Tayie]

15 minutes ago, Wolly9102 said:

No. You need to make too much modifications to your system to the point of just buying an new workstation pc. (CPU, PSU, motherboard). If you're doing cad work on your IGPU right now I would suggest picking up that 1050ti (maybe second hand). You will notice a lot of improvement.

If I was to get a new system or upgrade, what would you recommend?
I've been all over the place and the suggestions seems to be far off reach.

 

[Ronnie_Tayie]

13 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

The reason Tesla M40s are so cheap are because 

1. They don't have display outputs
2. They require cooling to be done by the case itself. 
3. If you want to modify the card to have its own cooling, it will likely be hurt to be in the same room as your system (see Craft Computing)

They're decent cards, but for what you're doing, no, it doesn't really make sense. 

I'm not looking to game a lot if any at all. I just want to render scenes and animations quicker.
And I have checked a number of clips on the TESLA GPU.

 

[Wolly9102]

7 minutes ago, Ronnie_Tayie said:

I'm not looking to game a lot if any at all. I just want to render scenes and animations quicker.
And I have checked a number of clips on the TESLA GPU.

 

Just get the 1050ti. Tesla GPUs are the best of the best. Your older i5 can't handle them. You leverage your GPU more but then you're CPU becomes the bottleneck.

[RONOTHAN##]

12 minutes ago, Ronnie_Tayie said:

I'm not looking to game a lot if any at all. I just want to render scenes and animations quicker.
And I have checked a number of clips on the TESLA GPU.

 

They still need to be cooled. If you don't set up a cooling system on the card, it would overheat pretty quickly doing renders and animations, thus the complaint about the card being way too loud to be in the same room as it being valid. 

[Ronnie_Tayie]

13 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

They still need to be cooled. If you don't set up a cooling system on the card, it would overheat pretty quickly doing renders and animations, thus the complaint about the card being way too loud to be in the same room as it being valid. 

I have a solution to the cooling and how to empliment it and I honestly have not much of an issue with noise. I will have to cool it with the aim of having less noise but if I can't have both I don't really mind settlting for Performance over looks.

 

My next question on this has to do with bottlenecking.

I do understand that my i5 wil bottleneck the GPU in most situations, I just don't really know how much.

Along with the evident fact that most of content surrouning TESLA aGPU upgrades are on better systems than mine.

[RONOTHAN##]

1 hour ago, Ronnie_Tayie said:

honestly have not much of an issue with noise

You've never been in the room with a 10k RPM fan then. You need that level of fan in order to cool the system, unless you want to try and water cool the card or zip tie a big heatsink to it which would outweigh how much you're saving on the card and make case compatibility much worse.

 

How much of a bottleneck it would be would depend on the exact software implementation that you're using. More than likely though, the VRAM benefits (literally the only reason I see to go for a M40 over a similarly performing and priced 980 Ti) won't be able to be taken advantage of with that system.