Budget rendering workstation

[Rilind]

I'm on the verge of finalising the parts for a budget rendering workstation. I am going to be recording at max 1080/50p in the foreseeable future. Most of the workload is 720/50p, being downscaled to 576p PAL DV, at 10Mbps. The full specs for the rig are below;

 

Ryzen 5 1600 (with the Wraith Spire Coolers)

MSI GTX 1050 2GB OC

16GB DDR4 2800MhZ G.Skill RipJaws V

2TB SATA3 32MB Toshiba HDD

CoolerMaster MasterWatt Lite 500W 80+

Do you think I will be able to render said projects, down to 576p to MPEG format; say 1 hour in atleast 30 minutes? Help is needed ASAP please.

[Billy_Mays]

Do you have the PSU? And the R5 1400 will do the job quite fine

[Lord Mirdalan]

     Just my two cents...

 

     Are you planning on doing any GPU-based rendering? If you are, 2GB of video memory will be a bottleneck. Also, if your budget supports it, 32GB of RAM would be better. And lastly, SSDs are so cheap these days, it would be a shame not to run your programs from one.

 

     Now, out of curiosity, what program(s) will you be rendering from?

 

 

[maartendc]

14 minutes ago, Lord Mirdalan said:

     Just my two cents...

 

     Are you planning on doing any GPU-based rendering? If you are, 2GB of video memory will be a bottleneck. Also, if your budget supports it, 32GB of RAM would be better. And lastly, SSDs are so cheap these days, it would be a shame not to run your programs from one.

 

     Now, out of curiosity, what program(s) will you be rendering from?

 

 

While I agree that a SSD is definitely a must, SSD prices are actually pretty high right now (50% higher than about 9 months ago).

 

Just get a 250gb SSD (or bigger if you can afford it) at least to run Windows and software off of. YOu can use the HDD for file storage.

[Rilind]

14 hours ago, Lord Mirdalan said:

     Just my two cents...

 

     Are you planning on doing any GPU-based rendering? If you are, 2GB of video memory will be a bottleneck. Also, if your budget supports it, 32GB of RAM would be better. And lastly, SSDs are so cheap these days, it would be a shame not to run your programs from one.

 

     Now, out of curiosity, what program(s) will you be rendering from?

 

 

No, not planning anything heavy on the GPU, although I am going to use it for some acceleration on encoding with Premiere Pro CC 2017. The difference between 16GB and 32GB is too much of a gap for my budget, but I got 2x8 sticks so adding another of those in the near future won't be a problem. I'll be using After Effects CC (from time to time), Adobe Premiere Pro CC almost all the time and encode using Encoder CC 2017. SSD is way out of my budget, I have to pay around $150 for a 250GB SSD, which is really high price for the standard here. I'm fine with 2TB of mechanical at the moment. 

 

14 hours ago, Billy_Mays said:

Do you have the PSU? And the R5 1400 will do the job quite fine

Yes, I added it a bit later. MasterWatt 500W Lite 80+. And although I considered the R5 1400 and R5 1500X, I thought that the extra two cores and four threads will help a lot in the rendering process.

[Billy_Mays]

2 hours ago, Rilind said:

No, not planning anything heavy on the GPU, although I am going to use it for some acceleration on encoding with Premiere Pro CC 2017. The difference between 16GB and 32GB is too much of a gap for my budget, but I got 2x8 sticks so adding another of those in the near future won't be a problem. I'll be using After Effects CC (from time to time), Adobe Premiere Pro CC almost all the time and encode using Encoder CC 2017. SSD is way out of my budget, I have to pay around $150 for a 250GB SSD, which is really high price for the standard here. I'm fine with 2TB of mechanical at the moment. 

 

Yes, I added it a bit later. MasterWatt 500W Lite 80+. And although I considered the R5 1400 and R5 1500X, I thought that the extra two cores and four threads will help a lot in the rendering process.

Yeah I was thinking of you were getting that PSU but you can go with the 1600 but not the X version since it's just more for clock speeds

[Rilind]

26 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Yeah I was thinking of you were getting that PSU but you can go with the 1600 but not the X version since it's just more for clock speeds

Indeed I just bought the 1600 (without the X) and the PSU. Waiting on the GPU (GTX 1050 2GB), RAM (16GB G.Skill 2800Mhz) and the HDD of 2TB. If anyone can answer the original question, will I have good rendering times?

[Billy_Mays]

13 minutes ago, Rilind said:

Indeed I just bought the 1600 (without the X) and the PSU. Waiting on the GPU (GTX 1050 2GB), RAM (16GB G.Skill 2800Mhz) and the HDD of 2TB. If anyone can answer the original question, will I have good rendering times?

Yes you should 

[Lord Mirdalan]

On 8/1/2017 at 2:53 AM, Rilind said:

No, not planning anything heavy on the GPU, although I am going to use it for some acceleration on encoding with Premiere Pro CC 2017. The difference between 16GB and 32GB is too much of a gap for my budget, but I got 2x8 sticks so adding another of those in the near future won't be a problem. I'll be using After Effects CC (from time to time), Adobe Premiere Pro CC almost all the time and encode using Encoder CC 2017. SSD is way out of my budget, I have to pay around $150 for a 250GB SSD, which is really high price for the standard here. I'm fine with 2TB of mechanical at the moment. 

 

Yes, I added it a bit later. MasterWatt 500W Lite 80+. And although I considered the R5 1400 and R5 1500X, I thought that the extra two cores and four threads will help a lot in the rendering process.

I'm not sure what your budget is, but you can get a 120GB SSD (which is more than large enough to hold Windows and the programs you mentioned) for just under $60. It won't be crazy-fast, but it will be better than booting OS and programs from spinning media.

 

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