PC for blender

[Gawron10001]

This be a hard one and I'm sitting on this for 3 or four weeks and I'm sick of it

 

I want to make pc that will be specially for blender. Rednering and stuff. On the internet i can't find real word performance on various system.

 

Currently I'm working on this system

i3-4310T

ASUS H87-PRO (Or gold, i don't remember TBH)

16GB Ram

GTX 1060 3GB

240SSD and some hard drives

 

It is not ballz to the wall system, but it is not bad either. I use it mostly for games. I don't wan't to upgrade it, or swap for an new one because for me it games just fine, but when we come to blender i have massive render times, and recently started to have performance issues in object mode when i have too many parts. And I can't play of course while rendering

 

Normally i would start from the easiest... but there is no easy one for me

 

GPU

QUADRO P2000 

I don't know if I will be afford P4000. Basic question, is it worthit? I can stop buying food for week or two then buy p4000, main question is should i hold a little longer, and buy p4000 or just go with p2000

 

CPU

The goal is core i5 or ryzen 5, mainly because I don't do that many simulations of cloth and stuff, so i don't think ill benefit much from better CPU but i may be wrong. 

 

Ram

16GB, I'v never run on a issue with low ram on my current pc so i don't except to have any in the future, even if, adding more ram with buying it will less than 24hrs so i can live with it

 

MOBO 

Whatever is compatible with CPU and has wake on lan

 

Storage, PSU, case

Okey, this things i already have, bought them on some sales, 512 ssd, 750w psu from someone, i thing be quiet and for the case it will go into server cabinet

 

My main concerns are GPU and CPU, so please, give me some advice, and if anyone of you have system especialy for blender ill be glad if you leave your system specs and opinions

[DocSwag]

3 minutes ago, Gawron10001 said:

I don't know if I will be afford P4000. Basic question, is it worthit? I can stop buying food for week or two then buy p4000, main question is should i hold a little longer, and buy p4000 or just go with p2000

 

IIRC blender doesn't really benefit from Quadros. You could probably get away with a better geforce card.

3 minutes ago, Gawron10001 said:

The goal is core i5 or ryzen 5, mainly because I don't do that many simulations of cloth and stuff, so i don't think ill benefit much from better CPU but i may be wrong. 

 

Blender likes more cores so I would probably say Ryzen

[Gawron10001]

1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

IIRC blender doesn't really benefit from Quadros. You could probably get away with a better geforce card.

1070/1080?

1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

Blender likes more cores so I would probably say Ryzen

I'm more keen on ryzen too, but i had to have samone who thinks same as me

[brob]

If you are using Cycles gpu rendering option then a GTX/RTX gpu would be a good choice. The gpu has to have enough video memory to store the scene being rendered. Blender documentation suggests multiple gpu, one for display and the other for rendering.

 

Do you have a budget?

[Gawron10001]

8 minutes ago, brob said:

If you are using Cycles gpu rendering option then a GTX/RTX gpu would be a good choice. The gpu has to have enough video memory to store the scene being rendered. Blender documentation suggests multiple gpu, one for display and the other for rendering.

 

Do you have a budget?

I don't have strict budget, I want to spedn around 1500 USD (About 5500 PLN, my currency) on GPU, CPU, MOBO and RAM, but I'm totally willing to spend more like 2k or even 2,5k. I don't want the best of the best pc for blender, I want mid tier

[brob]

This should fit your budget parameters. I've used a motherboard that will support a second gpu should that ever be needed.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor  ($318.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($163.90 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($144.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 8GB XC GAMING Video Card  ($799.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1427.77
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-26 12:27 EDT-0400

[Gawron10001]

10 minutes ago, brob said:

This should fit your budget parameters. I've used a motherboard that will support a second gpu should that ever be needed.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor  ($318.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($163.90 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($144.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 8GB XC GAMING Video Card  ($799.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1427.77
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-26 12:27 EDT-0400

I can't enven tell how much I'm thankfull. You saved me a headache  Thakns very much!

[DocSwag]

12 minutes ago, brob said:

This should fit your budget parameters. I've used a motherboard that will support a second gpu should that ever be needed.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor  ($318.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($163.90 @ OutletPC) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($144.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce RTX 2080 8GB XC GAMING Video Card  ($799.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1427.77
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-26 12:27 EDT-0400

Just wanted to add, stuff is usually overpriced in EU countries so this may end up being a bit out of range, in which case OP could probably sacrifice GPU for a 1080 ti or something

[brob]

Could also drop to a 2700 if necessary.

[Gawron10001]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Just wanted to add, stuff is usually overpriced in EU countries so this may end up being a bit out of range, in which case OP could probably sacrifice GPU for a 1080 ti or something

In fact it is, but like i said, i can spend a little bit more. The problem is RTX card with is like 30% higher price, but mybe ill get one from US

 

2 minutes ago, brob said:

Could also drop to a 2700 if necessary.

Will go 2700X, any way, don't think ill have to go lower

[brob]

Quite a price premium. A GTX 1080 Ti has very similar performance to the RTX 2080.

[Gawron10001]

On 9/26/2018 at 12:13 PM, brob said:

Quite a price premium. A GTX 1080 Ti has very similar performance to the RTX 2080.

The price difference is high, then i suppose 1080Ti

 

I've been actuall searching trought the internet, and was thinking of geting 3 gtx 980, used because i can get thoose in price of one 1080ti in my country, and from this site, i found this is actually a little bit faster, and i don't intend to use this system for anything else, what do you think? Or better go with 1080ti and buy next in the future?

 

The site i was talking about:

http://blenchmark.com/gpu-benchmarks

[brob]

GTX 980 come with 4GB of memory. This might be limiting. And, while the motherboard can physically accommodate three dual slot gpu one of them will be limited to 4 PCIe 2.0 lanes. The other consideration is that there would be no upgrade path without replacing gpu.

 

I think the GTX 1080 Ti would be the best choice at the moment. 

[Gawron10001]

@brob and @DocSwag, I want to thank you again for your help, i just want to let now that i finally went for ryzen 7 2700x, asus prime x470 pro, 16gb of ram and two gtx 1080Ti, and soon ill buy third, bc BDay  

 

Again, thanks for your help and now I'm getting to assembly it now, even though i got all the parts like 3 days ago