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New PC

Postby Daniel79 » Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:42 am

Daniel79 Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:42 am
Hello to everyone, I'm going to assemble a new PC.
I wanted to ask you an information:
Which chipset for motherboard is the best solution for a PC, oriented to rendering work?
Another thing...AMD o intel processor?

Thanks a lot
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Re: New PC

Postby cayn99 » Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:08 pm

cayn99 Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:08 pm
hi there,

If you can, i suggest to wait till the 10th of august; AMD will release threadripper, you could use those 64 pci lanes. (i think 8 are reserved for m.2s etc. but still...).
It's Bleeding edge technology ofc. but very promising. Just wait a couple of weeks if you can. Besides, the prices of gpus are slowly getting back to "normal",
they are still artificially inflated due to cryptocurrency ...

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Re: New PC

Postby Daniel79 » Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:00 am

Daniel79 Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:00 am
ok thanks, but for me the price of AMD processor is very very high!!
and about of Intel chipset, do you have any suggestions?
There are too many variables!!! Intel x299, Intel z270, Intel b250, Intel z170 ecc......
I excluded the series Hxxx, because I understand that it does not allow overclock.
Thanks again
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Re: New PC

Postby Daniel79 » Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:37 pm

Daniel79 Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:37 pm
there's anyone that can help me?
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Re: New PC

Postby Phantom107 » Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:04 pm

Phantom107 Wed Aug 30, 2017 1:04 pm
Look for a CPU you want, not the chipset. Best one available IMO is the i7 7700K overclocked to 4.9-5.0 GHz. Modeling tools are not multithreaded so then all those cores on AMD and uber-expensive Intel chips are useless. It's better to have a high clock speed single threaded. When you've chosen a CPU then you can look which chipset it uses and then look at boards.

High-end motherboards have a PLX chip which adds a bunch of available PCI-e lanes. Example: http://www.gigabyte.co.nl/Motherboard/G ... -rev-10#kf
That's what I'm doing and then you can sport 4 cards... AND have a high clocked CPU.

The only case you really need a lot of cores is when Octane is compiling the scene, but with hyperthreading and high clock speed it's no issue at all.

Hope that helps
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Re: New PC

Postby Daniel79 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:10 am

Daniel79 Fri Sep 01, 2017 8:10 am
thanks alot your are the best! :D
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Re: New PC

Postby Phantom107 » Tue Sep 05, 2017 7:38 pm

Phantom107 Tue Sep 05, 2017 7:38 pm
Oh yes... so M.2 does indeed eat PCI-e lanes; personally I'd settle for a 'normal' SSD to be sure it all works! Would be really bad to have problems there
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