3D rendering + gaming rig - Need advice

[Clauricaune]

Hello! So, I have a friend who is trasitioning from a Mac to a PC and asked me to suggest him some components for a rig that's capable of both decent 3D rendering and gaming. I don't know much about 3D rendering, so I thought I'd ask you fine folks about this,

 

He uses mostly Vray and Maxwell. I guess I should discard a Quadro as he also wants to game, but what would be better: a GTX 780 Ti or a Titan? I know the 780 Ti has a couple hundred more CUDA cores than the Titan, but the Titan has double the VRAM, so I'm not sure which one would be preferable. Or maybe SLI 780s?

 

I also hear that a 3930k is a good CPU for rendering. What would you guys suggest?

 

Thanks!

[Altecice]

I7 for sure if he wants to render. 

 

As for the GPU i would say a 780ti is perfectly fine for both.

 

I will leave it up to some other forum members to suggest a full build for you

 

 

whats your budget?

[Clauricaune]

Not sure about the budget, but I don't think that's a problem for him.

[Altecice]

Not sure about the budget, but I don't think that's a problem for him.

 

just most people like to have a budget in mind when building a full spec for you.

[codytappen]

The something similar to the components in this video... Except a 780ti instead of the Quadro and 780.

This would be my best guess for specs he would want http://pcpartpicker.com/p/25JmF but without a price range it's hard to figure out exactly what you should buy.

[Clauricaune]

 

just most people like to have a budget in mind when building a full spec for you.

 

 

Then let's say $2,500-3,000.

[Clauricaune]

 

This would be my best guess for specs he would want http://pcpartpicker.com/p/25JmF but without a price range it's hard to figure out exactly what you should buy.

 

That's actually pretty helpful. Thanks!

[Clauricaune]

Question: would SLI 780 Tis make a difference VRAM-wise when rendering? Read somewhere that it would still use only 3Gbs of VRAM even with SLI, is that true?

[ultimatemythbuster]

Question: would SLI 780 Tis make a difference VRAM-wise when rendering? Read somewhere that it would still use only 3Gbs of VRAM even with SLI, is that true?

When you SLI cards, you don't get more RAM because as I understand it, each card needs to store the same information in it's memory.  So at any one time, both cards have the same information in their memory.  You would only have 3GB of VRAM with SLI 780Tis

[cjeffcoatjr]

4930K not the 3930K. 780Ti, unless he is at 4K Titan is useless. Always try to go for a stronger single card than two weaker ones. He would always make a Hackintosh if he wants to remain on the OSX environment. 

[Arshdeep]

Wouldn't a 780, 780 Ti, Titan (High end of the line) be pretty good for render/gaming due to cuda? I mean not the pro cards. Pretty high end too (value?). Still, AMD is still a rival to cuda!

[ACatWithThumbs]

Hello! So, I have a friend who is trasitioning from a Mac to a PC and asked me to suggest him some components for a rig that's capable of both decent 3D rendering and gaming. I don't know much about 3D rendering, so I thought I'd ask you fine folks about this,

 

He uses mostly Vray and Maxwell. I guess I should discard a Quadro as he also wants to game, but what would be better: a GTX 780 Ti or a Titan? I know the 780 Ti has a couple hundred more CUDA cores than the Titan, but the Titan has double the VRAM, so I'm not sure which one would be preferable. Or maybe SLI 780s?

 

I also hear that a 3930k is a good CPU for rendering. What would you guys suggest?

 

Thanks!

 

Go with the TITAN the 6GB Vram is way more important then the 200 more Cuda Cores.

6GB is really a must if you want to do high detail models.

3GB vram on the GTX780 ti will limit your 3D rendering drasticly!!!

And don't go with Quadro Cards they aren't really good for 3D rendering/modeling they have not enough CUDA cores the only good Quadro is the K6000 and it costs $5000.