You Have A $5,000.00 New Computer - What's the configuration?

ebonartgallery

Let's say you had $5,000.00 for a new PC that will be used for DAZ work. That $5,000.00 goes for just computer hardware components, but you need to run DAZ, Photoshop, and lets say at least one of the fancier renderers.

What components do you get? What type of video card? What OS?

namffuak

I'm at just under $4,000 with mine, built in January - and it looks like it could be built for a lot less today.

MB  - ASUS X99-E WS http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132263&cm_re=asus_x99_ws-_-13-132-263-_-Product

CPU - Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.5 GHz LGA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117403

CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-U12S 120x120x25 CPU Cooler http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608040

Memory - G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231796&ignorebbr=1

Video Card - MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti GTX 980Ti http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-127-912

Power Supply - Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold - 1200W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171055

Case - Antec Twelve Hundred V3 ATX Gaming Case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129100

Some notes - The MB will support up to 4 high-end gpus - but the case only has 7 slots and you need 8 slots for all four cards, Also, when I built this, the memory kits were $470 each and now they are $185. As you can see, I went air-cooled on the cpu and so far this is working just fine - but I'm not overclocking anything. (I've had 3DL renders run for 20+ hours at 100% CPU and never exceeded 59 degrees C) This is not quite the same video cards as what I'm running, but the specs and the price match (I went MSI because they had a 2 year warranty, and the other 980 TIs at the time were all one year).

In addition - a 512 GB SSD as the boot/OS drive; two internal 1 TB drives and two internal 750 GB drives and a 512 GB drive, all from my previous system. Backups go to two external WD 2 TB usb drives. The OS is Windows 8.1 Professional downgraded to Windows 7 Professional. Oh - and a GT 740 gpu that I use for driving the monitors; bought locally for about $100. I paid a local repair shop about $370 to do the assembly and provide and install the OS (I don't have the patience to do this anymore; I've built a number od systems, but the last one was back in 2001).

All up, as built, $3,910 or thereabouts. Not counting all the extra drives, of course.

3.5 GHz 6-core CPU, 64 GB of DDR4 ram, SSD root drive, 4 TB of additional internal storage. It sits 3 feet from me, and I can't here any noise from the fans. :-)

nicstt

ebonartgallery said:

Let's say you had $5,000.00 for a new PC that will be used for DAZ work. That $5,000.00 goes for just computer hardware components, but you need to run DAZ, Photoshop, and lets say at least one of the fancier renderers.

What components do you get? What type of video card? What OS?

Two top of the range xeons and a motherboard would take almost all of that. :)

Testing6790

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

Bottom row. Cheaper case, spring for a good water cooler (they dont listen liquid coolers). I'd go with the 980Ti over the titan Xs. Each card has ~200 more cuda cores for $300 more. MIght be able to get away with 4 cards, actually, and stay under 5k. If not, invest in some nice IPS monitors.

Man, I want to spend $5000 on a computer now.