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Thinking of upgrading my system in 6 months, but I don't want overkill

themarshal77themarshal77 Posts: 21
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Hi. I recently bought a new pc so I could learn how to use daz studio, but I'm already thinking of getting a better one (I only decided I wanted to make games and stuff through daz halfway through the system build, and by then it was a bit too late to switch everything). This is my new system AMD Ryzen 7 1700 8 core 3.0-3.7GHz. Asus prime X370-PRO DDR4 motherboard. 32GB Corsair vengeance DDR4 2133MHz. x2 PNY quadro P4000 graphics cards. Corsair H60 liquid cooler. Corsair 750W power supply. And this is what I'm thinking of getting in around 6 months. Intel Xeon 10 core E5-2640V4 2.4GHz. Asus X99-E WS motherboard. 128gb corsair vengeance 2666MHz. x2 11gb Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 TI cards, x2 11gb Asus GeForce GTX 1080 TI cards (for some reason I can only buy a max of 2 cards from a shop) 1TB Samsung SSD. 4TB SATA III HD. Corsair H110i Hydro cooler. Corsair 1500w pro series power supply. x2 extra case fans. All in all it would cost me close to £6000. I've thought about switching out one of the 1080 Ti's for the PNY P6000 24GB to handle all the large scenes, but that would add even more cost. I don't want to over spend if I don't have to so any advice would be brilliant:)

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  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019
    edited September 2017

    Serious question here... you say you want to use the rig for games and DAZ renders.

    How serious are you about the DAZ rendering? Do you need this professionally?

    Because if you are more about the gaming than the rendering, then your actual rig is more than sufficient to run Studio and do renders; perhaps throw in 32 more GB of memory, but you should be able to render most things and then some, and even animations. If you are doing really large scenes, then perhaps switching the graphic cards is an option, too.

    That said, what problems are you experiencing, and what do you hope to improve in the rendering experience by upgrading?

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  • themarshal77themarshal77 Posts: 21
    It's more for me to learn how to make games rather than play them, using game engines like ren'py, unity or RPG maker I'll want to render scenes with several people and animations at once. But I don't want to spend £6000 on a system when £4000 would be enough to do it
  • JamesJABJamesJAB Posts: 1,760

    You are not going to see a performance gain going from a 3.0Ghz 8 core Ryzen 7 over to a 2.4Ghz 10 core Xeon E5 V4.  Unless you are looking at that for maximum RAM reasons.  For your build I would seriously look at getting a 16 core Threadripper instead.  

    Honestly you could just pull the two quadro P4000 cards and replace them with either a pair of GTX 1080 ti 11GB cards or a pair of Quadro P5000 16GB cards (then sell the P4000 cards), double your system RAM to 64GB (or relace all of your system RAM with faster DDR4), and upgrade to the Ryzen 7 1800X (or wait till the next set of ryzen 7 CPUs come out).  That will have you set for a good while.

    Currently it's the P4000 cards that are holding your system back, because performance wise they sit inbetween the GTX 1060 and GTX 1070.

  • themarshal77themarshal77 Posts: 21
    Yeah I would love to switch the P4000's for 1080 ti's but I don't think the motherboard I have supports them because it never gave them as an option when I was selecting the parts for the build, I wouldn't have been able to afford two P6000's since they cost £5000 each and don't really seem to be worth the massive extra cost. I kind of want to have two systems, my current one for rendering smaller scenes, and the better one for rendering larger scenes. But what's the most RAM and best processor I'd need to be able to support 4 11gb GTX 1080 TI's or one PNY quadro P6000 and 3 1080 TI's, I don't want to go for the best processor and 128gb of RAM if I don't really need them as it will be a lot to pay off on finance
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