Budget Workstations and Renderfarm

[MzCatieB]

Work has asked me to setup some configurations for are new office.

We currently make Video games and want to expand in the future.

Although i am fully capable of doing this exercise my self i thought i would see what you guys come up with.

The Goal is Maximum Performance on a low as possible budget.

I need setups for:

- Gaming Workstation (Games Design, 3D graphics (No High end Rendering)

- Graphics Workstation (Concept Art)

- Render Farm (Rendering 3D graphics and Game levels)

 

Budgets should be As low as you can, Dont worry about the Cases or Peripherals.

 

Have fun with it

[ShadowCaptain]

Budgets should be As low as you can, Dont worry about the Cases or Peripherals.

 

Almost impossible to say, a budged is 100% necessary for build options

 

you could do all of those tasks on £500 pcs, but obviously the better the PC the faster and smoother it will be

 

what software do you predominately use for these tasks? what games are we talking? AAA titles? basic platformers? 8 bit games? card/casino games? text adventures? 

[MzCatieB]

Almost impossible to say, a budged is 100% necessary for build options

 

you could do all of those tasks on £500 pcs, but obviously the better the PC the faster and smoother it will be

 

what software do you predominately use for these tasks? what games are we talking? AAA titles? basic platformers? 8 bit games? card/casino games? text adventures? 

the Game projects we are working on are currently 3d adventure style games like Assassins creed being built for PC/MAC/PS4 & XBO

 

Software we use is: 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, Adobe Creative Cloud and the Game engines we use are Unreal Engine 4, Unity and the Cryengine

 

And as for the Budget.

Think What is the best performing thing i can put together for this job... then pull it back a little (example: i7-5960x = no, but the i7-5930k is yes, Quadro K5200 = No,  Duel GTX Titan Blacks / Tripple GTX 980 = Yes) Think about the performance but think is there much between this and the 1 half the cost.

[ShadowCaptain]

SNIP

 

ok cool I understand what you mean, just off for lunch will try do some example builds later

[MzCatieB]

The Case me and my boss have chosen is the CoolerMaster HAF Stacker... so dont worry about space for storage or Radiators

[LtStaffel]

I don't know a whole lot about most of those programs, except for Blender.  I also don't know if you still want/need help.  But here's my suggestion: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/LtStaffel/saved/#view=tCF323

 

EDIT:  I went all out on the RAM because I know how Cycles render likes to force you to use the CPU a lot of times, so I was making sure there was enough memory to cover high poly and resolution scenes in Blender.

[Imakuni]

the Game projects we are working on are currently 3d adventure style games like Assassins creed being built for PC/MAC/PS4 & XBO

 

Software we use is: 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, Adobe Creative Cloud and the Game engines we use are Unreal Engine 4, Unity and the Cryengine

 

And as for the Budget.

Think What is the best performing thing i can put together for this job... then pull it back a little (example: i7-5960x = no, but the i7-5930k is yes, Quadro K5200 = No,  Duel GTX Titan Blacks / Tripple GTX 980 = Yes) Think about the performance but think is there much between this and the 1 half the cost.

I have no idea on how these programs work, so this will be a wild guess...

 

..but, if they do support multi-gpus without the need for XF / SLI drivers, as well as not needing the PCIe 2.0 x16 speed, you could be looking at getting a a 5930k with 7 Gtx 970s. I know that such setup would work for a Folding / Boinc farming rig, maybe it also does for 3D rendering farms?

 

Otherwise, I guess that having a quad 970 setup will yield as much as 3x980, while costing less.