Building a pc for 3D rendering

[tttapa]

Hello, I want to build a powerful pc for rendering with Blender, and maybe some Adobe Premiere or After Effects. I would like some advice on choosing a CPU (and a motherboard). Should I get an older AMD FX-9590 (8 cores, 4.7GHz, no hyper-threading, 06-07-2013, $220) or should I spend almost 5 times more on an Intel i7-5960X (8 cores, 3.0GHz, hyper-threading, Q3'14, $1059). Or does someone have a better alternative? And what motherboard? I would go for 2 Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 's in SLI, (Maybe some other nVidia card, but certainly not an AMD card, since I need the CUDA cores for Blender and Adobe).

 

Thanks in advance

[Un4tural]

well if budget is an issue, get an 4690k, amd chips are really really far behind intel offering nowadays... the i7 will do fine, the newer haswell e will do better, but if the price is worth it is up to you. 

[PineappleHolidays]

Depends on the budget , I would go for a 5820k , but it all depends ...

I would say the 5820k is best render time / price you're gonna get .

[LukaP]

Get a 5820k or a 4930k. those two are the price/performance kings when it comes to rendering, but the 4930k is based on an older platform

[thekeemo]

The 5960x is ridiculously priced but will net faster rendering

The 5820k is the best your going to get with a reasonable budget

[Spannerhands]

Hello, I want to build a powerful pc for rendering with Blender, and maybe some Adobe Premiere or After Effects. I would like some advice on choosing a CPU (and a motherboard). Should I get an older AMD FX-9590 (8 cores, 4.7GHz, no hyper-threading, 06-07-2013, $220) or should I spend almost 5 times more on an Intel i7-5960X (8 cores, 3.0GHz, hyper-threading, Q3'14, $1059). Or does someone have a better alternative? And what motherboard? I would go for 2 Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 's in SLI, (Maybe some other nVidia card, but certainly not an AMD card, since I need the CUDA cores for Blender and Adobe).

 

Thanks in advance

 

I just upgraded from an FX9590 and for rendering its very good (what i used it for), but its a pain to live with, it gets hot and needs a good water cooler to keep it under control, was having issues with my system and because of all the water acrylic water cooling setup I could not just pull stuff out to check whats going on, so needed to make a stable hassle free air cooled system so I bought an 5960X as i was worried that coming from the FX the lesser Intel processors might not offer me much an improvement, the 5960X is a monster, its probably not worth the money but as least you don't sit there looking at the progress bar wishing you got a faster CPU.... 

[tttapa]

Thanks for the replies! I noticed the 5820k has only 28 PCIe lanes. Will this bottleneck my two-way SLI configuration?

[i_build_nanosuits]

Thanks for the replies! I noticed the 5820k has only 28 PCIe lanes. Will this bottleneck my two-way SLI configuration?

no, this would even be enough to run 3 way SLI at 8x/8x/8x...

Also, the i7-4790K with a Z97 motherboard that support SLI would also be a good option for you if the whole X99/DDR4/5820k turns out to be too expensive...this would still blow the FX-9590 out of the water while being much cheaper overall.