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I'm with Milo. I have used Cyberpower repeatedly to get customized desktops with great power for the price... once in 2001, again in 05, and again in 11. That's right, each rig lasted me 4-6 years with little to no maintenance needed (one of them had to have a PSU replaced, and one a graphics card. Not bad in 10 years.) Most recently I went laptop instead, now that laptops are respectable in the hardware department, and got an awesome deal on an MSI Dominator (24 GB of RAM, 8 GB of Vram, top-end mobile nvidia card, excellent rendering capability). So either newegg or cyberpower get my vote.
Woohoo! My machine came in just a bit ago and it's so fast!
My mac (which technically has a faster 4 core CPU) took over 2 hours to render a scene and the new 980 card is almost finished after about 20 minutes. I say over 2 hours, because I honestly have no idea. It just stopped after two hours because of the default render time. I eventually figured that out, but I can't remember how long it took once I changed that setting.
Right now, I'm using Robocopy to duplicate my mac's runtime onto the windows computer, but this scene only needed 1 minute to load everything from the shared drive, even with robocopy going crazy in the background. So, I suspect I'll just use the runtime from a network mount since it gets backed up regularly and I can design my scenes on the mac. I was really dreading having to keep the two synced. I'm hoping I can save them from the mac and render them on the other windows computer....will see about that.
My biggest frustration so far is that it came with Windows home, which doesn't allow Remote Desktop. I'm using VNC, which seems to work fine, but I'm not sure how it will feel once I start "posing". If it is horrible, I guess I'll get a cheapy KVM thing.
try Team Viewer for remote if its just you personally they let you use it for free. But for remote graphics work I am not sure how well that will work, I think you might be right about the posing, or create in one render on the other
When I built my computer, I got all of the parts from Amazon. Well, I have to admit that while I did all of the research and the shopping, my DH was nice enough to actually put the computer together for me. The prices at the time were cheaper than both Newegg and Tiger Direct plus I had Prime so I had free two day shipping available. I got some great deals and still managed to get a really decent computer. I went with AMD for the processor and I don't regret that. For what I do in DAZ, my computer beats out my DH's I7 computer when doing comparative renders in DAZ although in Blender we run about even for most things. Although, my computer is much quieter and runs cooler since I went with a water cooled fan and got a power supply geared for running quiet. Most times you can't even hear my computer running while rendering unless there is absolutely no ambient noise in the room.
I pieced out some parts with computer parts we had laying around. For example, I used an older monitor until I could afford an nicer one about 6 months after I built my current system. I still don't have a DVD reader/writer because I'm using an external one my DH had and wasn't using anymore. Unfortunately, I built my computer about two months before the beta version of DAZ came out with Iray and I had gotten a Radeon graphics card because I thought it would do everything I needed. And it does, in 3 Delight. At some point, I'll have to see about getting an Nvidia card, but I'll have to save up some pennies. My understanding is that even though I'm running an AMD processor, I should still be able to plug in an Nvidia graphics card into my motherboard and it should still work. Fortunately, I don't usually notice too much of a lag in processor speed while rendering even though I'm using only CPU while rendering in Iray. I am running Windows 7 as I refuse to upgrade to Window 10.
It really pays to comparison shop.
I ended up using VNC in place of remote desktop and I'm satisfied well enough. It's definitely not capable of precision mouse movement, so that has to be done directly on the machine's mouse. Editing files on the mac and saving them to be rendered on the other computer has worked out very nicely. The weird thing is that I can't really see much improvement in render times if the library is attached via gigabit wired ethernet or local to the 2 TB disk that camewith the computer. I expected a noticeable boost, but I really don't see any.
All in all, I'd guess I'm getting renders at about 1/10th the time it takes on my mac (with a Radeon card).
It's interesting how our renders never really get faster. We just fatten them up. Before, I was planning on minimal renders (no background stuff, just a few incidentals in the forground to help "tell the story"), but with the faster computer, I can add in walls and windows and whatnot...the end render times are similar, but they are much more interesting.
That's the kicker...ain't it?
I use New Egg and Amazon. Amazon can be good but you have to know what you are looking for as they don't always have accurate descriptions. So find the model number and look for that. Price wise between Amazon and New Egg seems to be 50/50, but watch out for Amazon's return policy on computers.
Newegg has A+++++ customer service. I've had all problems dealt with quickly and with minimal fuss or bother. I even had one item where it arrived broken and was a low cost item that would have cost more to return than it was worth (it was under $3) so they just sent the replacement.
You can leave your ATI video card in your machine if you have a spare PCIE 3.0 slot you can install a Nvidia Tesla M2090 with 6gb Video ram and 512 Cuda cores for about $100 US Dollars. If you had a Nvidia desktop graphic card this would not work but you have an ATI video card so the two will play nice. Just know that the Tesla is not a desktop graphics card it only for rendering and calculations. Oh on a side note make sure your power supply can handle two video cards.
Pardon,
think, you'll need way more memory for simple iRay renders.
As I learnt, if your render exceeds the memory of your GPU-Card, iRay continues rendering using the normal CPU and completely quitting your nVidia card.
My simple outdoor renders easily extend over 8GB, which results in massive harddrive caching. Up to now I don't own a nVidia card so I hope for a future DAZ-render-cloud.
If you want to install powerfull nVidia cards, you need at least over 1kVA power supply.
I agree. I have had no issues with New Egg customer service, or Amazon Customer Service. I shop them based on price.
The issue I was bringing up about Amazon is that computers, and some components, can only be returned unopened or if they arrive DOA.
Also note that if you purchase from a marketplace vendor on those sites, customer service can fall off. (I have only had two bad experiences on Amazon, and one on New Egg, which considering how long I have been doing this is saying something.)
Neither NVIDIA nor AMD recommend this. In fact they both recommend against it, and it can cause some serious issues, to include BSOD. (Blue Screen of Death.)
Note that what the scene takes in Daz Studio, or even 3Delight is not necessarily what it takes on the Video Card. A tool like GPU-Z will give you more information. Remember the scene on the video card has no rigging, no moprhs to carry, doesn't have multiple copies of mip-maped textures, etc. Yes you can overrun the video card memory and force a card out of the render, I have even done it with a single clothed character on a 12GB (K6000) card. (It wasn't intentional, I just put too many levels of tesselation on something. LOL.)
Most scenes fit on a 4GB card. 2GB is very hit and miss for a single figure. The 980Ti is probably, currently the bast bang for the buck it has 6GB, and the computer I have that in rarely exceeds the video card. .