Serious candidate to my next system

[Seekerfinder]

Hi Paquito,

Glad I found this thread since I'm on the same mission. Regarding your statement: "Having said that, my guess is that I really need not an extreme CPU, but something decent, with a good amount of good quality RAM and very powerful GPU" - is this the same machine you will be using for your Modo modelling work? If so, I would suggest that the CPU would probably be important - perhaps some others here would know more about how Modo uses the CPU other than rendering.

Seeker

[PAQUITO]

Yes I will be using Modo too (but not rendering with it), and the CPU upgrade will be an AMD fx8350. That will be going from my current Quad6600 to an 8-core AMD system along with 16GBs of DDR3 quad channel, so my Modo workflow will benefit too.

[PAQUITO]

Finally, my new comp is right now being assembled. I expect to have it at home and running by this week. I will keep you informed and will post some comparison with my old rig.

[FrankPooleFloating]

Holy smokes! that took a while.. I forgot all about our little project.

Please post the mb, case, psu, GPU's (duh), mem, watercooling (if any) as soon as you can.
I for one am very eager to see what you went with!

[PAQUITO]

The final rig is:

AMD FX8350 8 cores
Mobo MSI 990FXA
16gb gskill memory
MSI GTX690 4GB
PS aerocool 1100W
Cooler bigwater 770 (water Cooled)
Case AEROCOOL VS4

The total budget is 1.800€. I hope I will have it at home in like 2-3 days.

[FrankPooleFloating]

Nice Paqi - glad to see you took the plunge!

Is the Mobo a MSI 990FXA-GD80V2?

Waterblock on the 690 and in the loop?

[PAQUITO]

The mobo is the GD65. After some research Ive found its the best choice for me, with no OC options, reasonably cheap and with a decent quality. About the water cooling Im not sure, it will be the first time I own a watercooled system, so I dont know about it.

[PAQUITO]

So, the new system is up and running. The only thing is a bit noisy to my taste, sounds like a helicopter.
Other than that, I loaded an old scene and the render time went down from 3 minutes to 20 seconds, so it´s really nice work with it, both GPU and CPU.

I guess the noise comes from the psu fan, the GPU fan is working now at 30% so it´s kinda quiet. I wonder if there is something to do to make the PSU more silent.

[FrankPooleFloating]

Hey Paq, I highly recommended the Corsair AX1200... by all accounts it is virtually dead silent...
You went with another one for some reason.

I have a Corsair TX850M v2 and it is just a faint whisper, when the fan is on...

[PAQUITO]

That´s the best option they gave me for it. I guess I must live with it. Anyways, it´s done, and I´m really happy with the beast