Building rendering machine, need advice.

[pablofierro]

Hello all, I'm building a new system mainly to work with 3Ds Max and Vray; I've read a lot of information on what hardware suits best for these applications but given that the amount of information is so vast, I can't make a solid decision on which of the following system to build:
 
Option 1: more CPU processing power
 
Intel core i7 4930K 6 cores
PNY Geforce GTX 770 2GB
 
Option 2: more GPU processing power
 
Intel core i7 4770K 4 cores
2 x PNY Geforce GTX 770 2GB
 
Taking in consideration my budget is not so high, which system do you think would suit the best for my purposes ?
 
Thanks!
 
Option 1:

 

Option 2:

[Shd0w2]

What about 4790k? when it comes out.

[WinNut]

Can you do a balance of both? Think maybe a 4820K and a Titan (not kidding) as the Titan is very good for rendering but not so much for gaming.

[TheDigitalRealm]

What about 4790k? when it comes out.

That doesn't perform any better. It just has a *chance* of overclocking slightly better. If it's more expensive there's no point.

[NannerBeans]

I would say definitely a less expensive case and get a 780 with the 6core. 

[TheDigitalRealm]

Can you do a balance of both? Think maybe a 4820K and a Titan (not kidding) as the Titan is very good for rendering but not so much for gaming.

A 4820k performs worse than a 4770K, so that wouldn't make any sense.

[WinNut]

A 4820k performs worse than a 4770K, so that wouldn't make any sense.

Really? Never heard of that, but OK I will take your lemons and make lemonades.

 

I would say for you to reroute the flow of money to the GPU, get a Titan and pair it with a 4770K.

[jdsb52]

Im doing the same as you, going from a AMD FX-8120 tho, when i was just hobbying with blender, now using all the high end tools, inc Unreal 4, really if you could afford to go to the intel extreme and still afford a 770, i would go extreme, if you cant then go with the normal i7-K which is what i have to go for as i dont think i could stretch to the extreme, but if i was you i would wait til after computex 2014 which is at the beginning of june, thats when intel are expected to show, release whatever their new devils canyon haswell refresh, the new 4770k will be the 4970k, and cant remeber what the new extremes are, both will be better apart from the extremes will be DDR4 RAM only, which will be very expensive, but the rest of the stuff seems fine, i mean you could save some money buy going with the normal i7 and get a 780 or even 2 770s and go SLI!

[jdsb52]

Hello all, I'm building a new system mainly to work with 3Ds Max and Vray; I've read a lot of information on what hardware suits best for these applications but given that the amount of information is so vast, I can't make a solid decision on which of the following system to build:

 

Option 1: more CPU processing power

 

Intel core i7 4930K 6 cores

PNY Geforce GTX 770 2GB

 

Option 2: more GPU processing power

 

Intel core i7 4770K 4 cores

2 x PNY Geforce GTX 770 2GB

 

Taking in consideration my budget is not so high, which system do you think would suit the best for my purposes ?

 

Thanks!

 

Option 1:

 

Option 2:

Im doing the same as you, going from a AMD FX-8120 tho, when i was just hobbying with blender, now using all the high end tools, inc Unreal 4, really if you could afford to go to the intel extreme and still afford a 770, i would go extreme, if you cant then go with the normal i7-K which is what i have to go for as i dont think i could stretch to the extreme, but if i was you i would wait til after computex 2014 which is at the beginning of june, thats when intel are expected to show, release whatever their new devils canyon haswell refresh, the new 4770k will be the 4970k, and cant remeber what the new extremes are, both will be better apart from the extremes will be DDR4 RAM only, which will be very expensive, but the rest of the stuff seems fine, i mean you could save some money buy going with the normal i7 and get a 780!

[jdsb52]

That doesn't perform any better. It just has a *chance* of overclocking slightly better. If it's more expensive there's no point.

I agree, but if this dude can wait til after Computex to buy and build it would be better, just in case any of his parts become inferior for the same price as any new realeses this year!

[TheDigitalRealm]

I agree, but if this dude can wait til after Computex to buy and build it would be better, just in case any of his parts become inferior for the same price as any new realeses this year!

We know what Z97 is going to bring already, there's nothing new on the CPU side that would benefit rendering, nor the Motherboard side.

[ACatWithThumbs]

Get a TITAN or a TITAN Black paired with something like an i7 4770K or i5 4670k. 
With Vray you will needs tons of CUDA Cores and Vram that is the most important.
2GB Vram will bottleneck you.(I know it out of own experience )
The TITAN Black has the best price to performance value of all cards for rendering.
It's fast as a K6000 but costs waaay less and with 6GB Vram and double precision you will never get bottlenecked.
(Unless your trying to render a PIXAR Movie in 4K lol )

[Enderman]

I would recommend more ram. You will need lots of it. And I mean lots.

[TheDigitalRealm]

Really? Never heard of that, but OK I will take your lemons and make lemonades.

 

I would say for you to reroute the flow of money to the GPU, get a Titan and pair it with a 4770K.

It's the same as it was with the i7 3770k and the i7 3820. At stock, the 3770K was the better performer. The 4820K is the lowest binned socket 2011 CPU, which means it was the worst performer with 6 cores, so two were cut from the Die.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Xeon hyperthreaded rendering machine:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU:  Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($249.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard:  ASRock B85 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Memory:  Kingston XMP Blu Red Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($137.99 @ Newegg)
Storage:  Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  ($109.99 @ Micro Center)
Storage:  Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.43 @ OutletPC)
Video Card:  PowerColor Radeon R9 290 4GB Video Card  ($299.36 @ Newegg)
Case:  Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($108.98 @ Best Buy)
Power Supply:  Antec High Current Gamer 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System:  Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1185.69
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-18 21:03 EDT-0400)

[Joshua Ondangan]

IMHO since you didn't mention gaming I went with this. I'd actually get the WS LE for build 1 and 2 but it will be a bit more expensive.

 

option 1: kinda expensive (quadro) 4930k

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3MESq

 

option 2: a bit cheaper (fire pro) 4930k

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3MEZt

 

option 3: 1.6k (fire pro) xeon e5

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3MF9r

 

option 4: 1.8k (quadro) xeon e5

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3MFfk

 

for the one you specified I'd recommend option 4

 

 

if it's something I'd buy for workstation related it will be option 4. but not enough money? jump to e3 makes things whole a lot cheaper.