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hi nice to meet you guys

 

Couple days ago, my friend ask me if I can help her buy a dell workstation. When I ask why, she want's a faster desktop to make her 3ds max rendering run faster.

 

the problem is the best dell workstation cost 5,499 US$ while she had 4,000 US$. As a gentleman I offer her to build her own workstation. - edit -

 

5960xif the rendering is that important. If not, 5820k/4790k.

I wouldn't go with an i7, I would go with a xeon with many cores and hyperthreading. They can't be overclocked, but if you're building the rig, it doesn't sound like she would be trying to overclock anyway. That would absolutely smash any 3d rendering performance, and depending on which one you buy, can easily fit your price range. Ill get back to you in a few minutes on a good model

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hi nice to meet you guys

 

Couple days ago, my friend ask me if I can help her buy a dell workstation. When I ask why, she want's a faster desktop to make her 3ds max rendering run faster. The problem is the best dell workstation cost 5,499 US$ while she had 4,000 US$. As a gentleman I offer her to build her own workstation. That was when problem come to me. as far as I know render = tons of CPU core.... But recent research by myself you could do animation rendering in core i7 as good as XEON

 

so I got stuck in CPU selection...

 

and my candidate is

 

1 intel i7-6700   358.28 US$

2 intel i7 5820K 468.48 US$

3 intel E5-2620v3 496.26 US$

 

could you help me choose between them..

 

my friend will running

 

- Dassault Catia v5

- 3Ds Max

- Maya

- Civil Enginering related Program

 

I've already decide other parts. and use only gigabyte mb and corsair line (ram, ssd, psu, cpu cooler, casing)..

 

thank you for your help

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hi nice to meet you guys

Couple days ago, my friend ask me if I can help her buy a dell workstation. When I ask why, she want's a faster desktop to make her 3ds max rendering run faster.

the problem is the best dell workstation cost 5,499 US$ while she had 4,000 US$. As a gentleman I offer her to build her own workstation. - edit -

5960xif the rendering is that important. If not, 5820k/4790k.

 

G3258 V 860k (Spoiler: G3258 wins)

 

 

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i7-4790K | MSI R9 390x | Cryorig H5 | MSI Z97 Gaming 7 Motherboard | G.Skill Sniper 8gbx2 1600mhz DDR3 | Corsair 300R | WD Green 2TB 2.5" 5400RPM drive | <p>Corsair RM750 | Logitech G602 | Corsair K95 RGB | Logitech Z313

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hi nice to meet you guys

 

Couple days ago, my friend ask me if I can help her buy a dell workstation. When I ask why, she want's a faster desktop to make her 3ds max rendering run faster.

 

the problem is the best dell workstation cost 5,499 US$ while she had 4,000 US$. As a gentleman I offer her to build her own workstation. - edit -

 

5960xif the rendering is that important. If not, 5820k/4790k.

I wouldn't go with an i7, I would go with a xeon with many cores and hyperthreading. They can't be overclocked, but if you're building the rig, it doesn't sound like she would be trying to overclock anyway. That would absolutely smash any 3d rendering performance, and depending on which one you buy, can easily fit your price range. Ill get back to you in a few minutes on a good model

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older Xeon. Maybe from 775 era if you wanna be cheap.

My Rig:

Xeon E5 1680 V2 @ 4.5GHz - Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79 Mobo - 64GB DDR3 1600MHz - 8 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance Low Profile - CAS 10-10-10-27 - AMD Radeon RX 6700XT Sapphire Pulse 12GB - DeepCool E-Shield E-ATX Tempered Glass Case - 1 x 1TB Crucial P1 NVMe SSD - BeQuiet Straight Power 11 850W Gold+ Quad rail - Fractal Design Celsius S36 & 6 x 120mm silent fans - Lenovo KBBH21 - Corsair Glaive RGB Pro - Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

 

Monitors - 3 x Acer Nitro 23.8" 1080p 75Hz IPS 1ms Freesync Panels = AMD Eyefinity @ 75Hz

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E5 Xeon (the ones beginning with a 2 can be used on a dual-socket motherboard like an Asus Z10)

32-64 GB of ECC memory

Intel i7 5820K (4.5 GHz) | MSI X99A MPower | 32 GB Kingston HyperX Fury 2666MHz | Asus RoG STRIX GTX 1080ti OC | Samsung 951 m.2 nVME 512GB | Crucial MX200 1000GB | Western Digital Caviar Black 2000GB | Noctua NH-D15 | Fractal Define R5 | Seasonic 860 Platinum | Logitech G910 | Sennheiser 599 | Blue Yeti | Logitech G502

 

Nikon D500 | Nikon 300mm f/4 PF  | Nikon 200-500 f/5.6 | Nikon 50mm f/1.8 | Tamron 70-210 f/4 VCII | Sigma 10-20 f/3.5 | Nikon 17-55 f/2.8 | Tamron 90mm F2.8 SP Di VC USD Macro | Neewer 750II

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5960xif the rendering is that important. If not, 5820k/4790k.

they only sell 5820k in my country...

 

I wouldn't go with an i7, I would go with a xeon with many cores and hyperthreading. They can't be overclocked, but if you're building the rig, it doesn't sound like she would be trying to overclock anyway. That would absolutely smash any 3d rendering performance, and depending on which one you buy, can easily fit your price range. Ill get back to you in a few minutes on a good model

okay thank's did they created 1151 xeon already??

 

older Xeon. Maybe from 775 era if you wanna be cheap.

uhm I want to fully use new ddr4.. because as far as I know this ram will survive tech change for at least 5 year...in other word she wouldn't need to upgrade.

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uhm I want to fully use new ddr4.. because as far as I know this ram will survive tech change for at least 5 year...in other word she wouldn't need to upgrade.

Oh I see, you wanna be future proof. Well there is no point looking at me then. I am a kind of AMD guy myself and I am not really into the newest intel platforms and so on. I like the older intel stuff.

My Rig:

Xeon E5 1680 V2 @ 4.5GHz - Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79 Mobo - 64GB DDR3 1600MHz - 8 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance Low Profile - CAS 10-10-10-27 - AMD Radeon RX 6700XT Sapphire Pulse 12GB - DeepCool E-Shield E-ATX Tempered Glass Case - 1 x 1TB Crucial P1 NVMe SSD - BeQuiet Straight Power 11 850W Gold+ Quad rail - Fractal Design Celsius S36 & 6 x 120mm silent fans - Lenovo KBBH21 - Corsair Glaive RGB Pro - Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

 

Monitors - 3 x Acer Nitro 23.8" 1080p 75Hz IPS 1ms Freesync Panels = AMD Eyefinity @ 75Hz

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Oh I see, you wanna be future proof. Well there is no point looking at me then. I am a kind of AMD guy myself and I am not really into the newest intel platforms and so on. I like the older intel stuff.

 

she use AMD Vishera FX-8350 

 

and it doesn't run well for rendering animation.. or maybe there's any specific methods to make her render faster?

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What about spending less (at the cost of a little future proofing) to get more computer?

An HP Z800 workstation can be had for around $500, a pair of X5667 Xeons for under $80 (if you need to swap what came in it), and 48 GB of RDIMMs for about $100 on ebay. That would be a very competitive rendering machine.

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she use AMD Vishera FX-8350 

 

and it doesn't run well for rendering animation.. or maybe there's any specific methods to make her render faster?

Maybe she should use something like a 12 core opteron 6370P CPU instead.

My Rig:

Xeon E5 1680 V2 @ 4.5GHz - Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79 Mobo - 64GB DDR3 1600MHz - 8 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance Low Profile - CAS 10-10-10-27 - AMD Radeon RX 6700XT Sapphire Pulse 12GB - DeepCool E-Shield E-ATX Tempered Glass Case - 1 x 1TB Crucial P1 NVMe SSD - BeQuiet Straight Power 11 850W Gold+ Quad rail - Fractal Design Celsius S36 & 6 x 120mm silent fans - Lenovo KBBH21 - Corsair Glaive RGB Pro - Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

 

Monitors - 3 x Acer Nitro 23.8" 1080p 75Hz IPS 1ms Freesync Panels = AMD Eyefinity @ 75Hz

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What about spending less (at the cost of a little future proofing) to get more computer?

An HP Z800 workstation can be had for around $500, a pair of X5667 Xeons for under $80 (if you need to swap what came in it), and 48 GB of RDIMMs for about $100 on ebay. That would be a very competitive rendering machine.

I refrained to use anything that it's sparepart was hard to find. If only ebay can assesed in my country. But can you point me a gigabyte motherboard that can run ecc. DDR3 or 4 ECC? Well I don't know much about ECC memory.

Maybe she should use something like a 12 core opteron 6370P CPU instead.

I think about opteron too but is it hard to find commercial motherboard that can run it. Like intel do.

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I think about opteron too but is it hard to find commercial motherboard that can run it. Like intel do.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.Xopteron+g34+motherboard.TRS0&_nkw=opteron+g34+motherboard&_sacat=0

 

Not difficult on eBay. However I have checked the sites I usually use and I cannot find an opteron MB anywhere.

My Rig:

Xeon E5 1680 V2 @ 4.5GHz - Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79 Mobo - 64GB DDR3 1600MHz - 8 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance Low Profile - CAS 10-10-10-27 - AMD Radeon RX 6700XT Sapphire Pulse 12GB - DeepCool E-Shield E-ATX Tempered Glass Case - 1 x 1TB Crucial P1 NVMe SSD - BeQuiet Straight Power 11 850W Gold+ Quad rail - Fractal Design Celsius S36 & 6 x 120mm silent fans - Lenovo KBBH21 - Corsair Glaive RGB Pro - Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

 

Monitors - 3 x Acer Nitro 23.8" 1080p 75Hz IPS 1ms Freesync Panels = AMD Eyefinity @ 75Hz

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