Which Card is right?

[vfxTwan]

Hi all and thanks for reading.

 

I'm new to the world of PC building and I'll be putting together my own soon. However, I'm not a gamer and I don't plan on using the machine for gaming. I'm an aspiring VFX artist and work in various 3D and video editing applications. For the sake of argument, I'll start off by saying that I'm going with an NVIDIA GPU. I haven't quite nailed down every single component yet but I do know that I'll be using the following:

 

CPU: Intel Core i7 6850k

Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe II

                            OR

                      Asus z170 WS

 

RAM: 32GB

OS: Windows 10 Pro

 

Now, my question is which Graphics card should I choose? I know that the Quadro series is built for exactly what I will being doing however given my budget for a GPU ($500- $700, 700 being an extreme) I could get GTX 1080 or a GTX 980 ti that will both have more GB than the Quadro that is in my price range. I know that GB isn't everything when it comes to GPUs, but when you're talking about 8GB vs 4GB, doesn't that justify thinking about?

 

Here are the cards I've been thinking about (all GDDR5):

GeForce GTX 1080 FE 8GB  PCI Express 3.0

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB   PCI Express 3.0

Quadro M2000 4GB   PCI Express 3.0

Quadro K2200 4GB   PCI Express 2.0

 

Thank you all for your help and advice. Also, feel free to tell me if I'm being a complete idiot and this question is dumb; like I said, I'm new to this. Thanks.

 

[Kobathor]

Free advice- don't get the 6850k. Bad overclocking and more expensive. Not a good value. Also, about the cards, get a nice "Gaming" GPU unless you're planning to spend thousands on a good performing professional GPU. If you have $600-700 to spend I'd go for a 980ti or a 1080.

[jj9987]

Also, Z170 board won't accept that category of CPUs.

[HKZeroFive]

I'd go for either a GTX 980Ti or GTX 1080.

 

As for CPU, Broadwell-E's price is inflated since it's a brand new product line and I've heard the overclockability isn't that good. You won't need the extra PCIe lanes of the i7 6850K unless you're running 4-way SLI. So either go for a much better value i7 5820K or the i7 6800K.

 

Also, Z170 motherboards aren't compatible with Haswell-E and Broadwell-E. You want the X99 chipset.

[Windows10Home]

X99, GTX 1080 and a 5820K/6800K

[AlTech]

16 minutes ago, vfxTwan said:

Hi all and thanks for reading.

 

I'm new to the world of PC building and I'll be putting together my own soon. However, I'm not a gamer and I don't plan on using the machine for gaming. I'm an aspiring VFX artist and work in various 3D and video editing applications. For the sake of argument, I'll start off by saying that I'm going with an NVIDIA GPU. I haven't quite nailed down every single component yet but I do know that I'll be using the following:

 

CPU: Intel Core i7 6850k

Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe II

                            OR

                      Asus z170 WS

 

RAM: 32GB

OS: Windows 10 Pro

 

Now, my question is which Graphics card should I choose? I know that the Quadro series is built for exactly what I will being doing however given my budget for a GPU ($500- $700, 700 being an extreme) I could get GTX 1080 or a GTX 980 ti that will both have more GB than the Quadro that is in my price range. I know that GB isn't everything when it comes to GPUs, but when you're talking about 8GB vs 4GB, doesn't that justify thinking about?

 

Here are the cards I've been thinking about (all GDDR5):

GeForce GTX 1080 FE 8GB  PCI Express 3.0

GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB   PCI Express 3.0

Quadro M2000 4GB   PCI Express 3.0

Quadro K2200 4GB   PCI Express 2.0

 

Thank you all for your help and advice. Also, feel free to tell me if I'm being a complete idiot and this question is dumb; like I said, I'm new to this. Thanks.

 

What would you benefit from? Cuda Acceleration or OpenCL?

 

What kind of Software will you work with?

 

 

Also, go for an Intel Core i7-6700K. It'l be quite good in a lot of use cases.

 

You can use Z170 with that.

 

GO for a 128 or 256GB SSD for OS and Programs as well as a 3TB HDD for storing your videos you'll edit.