hi guys a friend of mine is building a PC to get into 3d. His budget is around 3000€ and he asked me for advice for parts but I haven't been super up to date lately. I was wondering whether you guys can recommend the threadripper 2950X (16 cores 3,5Ghz) for use in Maya and also in Adobe Premiere? Or would you go with an intel processor like the i9 9900k? I feel it is somewhat safer to perform well in all applications. The threadripper seems like too much performance potential if it gets used by the application fully to just pass on?
for the GPU I was thinking 2x 2070 for the RTX cores that will hopefully get used super well by octane next year. Or would you go with 2x 1080 or 3x 1070 even for now?
have a nice day everyone,
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Threadripper still the way to go?
For 3K I'd go with a Threadripper 2950 or 2920, an Asrock x399 Taichi, a 32GB Kit so you can later on add another 32GB, and 2x 2080. My 2c
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do you notice any hicups in adobe software or is everything nice and fast with the threadripper?
... I would go with a ... I don't have one, I just think it's the best value atm.redbeardsescapades wrote:do you notice any hicups in adobe software or is everything nice and fast with the threadripper?
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It all depends how many gpus you'd like to have in your machine - don't think about how cheap a CPU is - think about entire platform and its stability and expandability.
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Hi Guys,
actually it depends, on Your needs and what You are planing to put in it. So I'm more in line with Sebastian about this.
Personally have few systems including Threadripper 2950X based. It's stable and pretty good. However OctaneRender never use CPU more than 5%, so for now that CPU would be kind of a waste (in my case I choose it for heavy multithreaded CPU workloads). Also system has "only" 4x (x8 or x16) PCIe slots compared to some WS motherboards that would offer 7 or even 11 (x8).
Threadripper CPUs do give good value, if You need that amount of compute power, but motehrboards are very few to choose from compared to what You can get for Intel platforms and then better boards do cost 500-600$ if go for higher end model.
So is it way to go? It really depends on Your needs. If You're not putting quad GPU setup and opting for one or two GPU only, and do not need that much CPU power - then opting for smaller, let's say 8600k + Z370/Z390 mobo might be even better idea for workstation.
Sinc.
tom
actually it depends, on Your needs and what You are planing to put in it. So I'm more in line with Sebastian about this.
Personally have few systems including Threadripper 2950X based. It's stable and pretty good. However OctaneRender never use CPU more than 5%, so for now that CPU would be kind of a waste (in my case I choose it for heavy multithreaded CPU workloads). Also system has "only" 4x (x8 or x16) PCIe slots compared to some WS motherboards that would offer 7 or even 11 (x8).
Threadripper CPUs do give good value, if You need that amount of compute power, but motehrboards are very few to choose from compared to what You can get for Intel platforms and then better boards do cost 500-600$ if go for higher end model.
So is it way to go? It really depends on Your needs. If You're not putting quad GPU setup and opting for one or two GPU only, and do not need that much CPU power - then opting for smaller, let's say 8600k + Z370/Z390 mobo might be even better idea for workstation.
Sinc.
tom