3D modelling / rendering / photoshop / premiere

[Kveldulv]

Hi guys,

it's time for change of my old workstation and I have came up with these specs.

I am working mainly on 3ds max 2011 + vray 2.0 + Vue 10 xStream / Adobe Photoshop CS5. Other software: Adobe Premiere CS5 + After Effects CS5.

I know that working with quadro would be a dream but, just can't afford it and cpu + more memory would be better benefit. Standard card (non-quadro) still would cope with complex 3ds max scenes.

Limit was £1,200, but then I saw i7-3930K and it all changed. and now it's £1,480

Later I might O/C this workstation, which memory would be better for that 1333 vs 1600 ?

Case: COOLERMASTER CM690 MKII ADVANCED CASE

Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-3930K (3.2GHz) 12MB Cache - that was a though choice between i7 2600k or Xeon E3-1230

Motherboard: ASUS® P9X79 PRO: INTEL® SOCKET LG2011

Memory (RAM): 32GB SAMSUNG QUAD-DDR3 1333MHz (8 X 4GB) - I am working on 16gb workstation at work and sometimes it's not enough. And 32gb would be futureproof

Graphics Card: 1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti 448 CORE (Ltd Edition Superfast Card) - I have used to work on old Quadro FX 3450 but its nothing to compare to the new ones. I was thinking about Quadro 2000, but processing power and RAM is more prefferable. Workstation would be working day and night, and over weekends I will play some games, as a stress killer.

Memory - 1st Hard Disk: 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm) - maybe after a year would add another 2gb drive for raid setup, and ssd for system

Memory Card Reader: INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply: CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72)

Processor Cooling: INTEL SOCKET LGA2011 STANDARD CPU COOLER - will add decent cooler ie: Noctua

Sound Card: ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities: 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options: 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System: NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED

Office Software: NO OFFICE SOFTWARE

Anti-Virus: NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

Warranty: 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)

Delivery: STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)

Build Time: Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days

 

[Rakk]

Limit was £1,200, but then I saw i7-3930K and it all changed. and now it's £1,480

Hehe, we've all done that before

Later I might O/C this workstation, which memory would be better for that 1333 vs 1600 ?
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Memory (RAM): 32GB SAMSUNG QUAD-DDR3 1333MHz (8 X 4GB) - I am working on 16gb workstation at work and sometimes it's not enough. And 32gb would be futureproof

If you're considering OC'ing then you might as well go for the 1600 RAM, I don't believe there's much difference in the price anyway

 

[Music Guy123]

£28 price difference, but you may as well get it if you can afford it, however, I would spend that money on other hardware before the RAM. Also, your spec looks fine.

 

[Frenchy]

Quadros vary in price tbh, Im lucky enough to run two quadro 6000's however you can get something liek a Quadro 600 for around £130 , which I believe will still outperform gaming cards.

EDIT: you may want to look at benchmarks etc dont take my word for it cus I might be wrong about the power of the 600.

 

[Kveldulv]

Thanks for all the replies. I think I would stick to that gaming card and would add quadro 600 later on, I'm not that fussed to change cable between two cards once a week or two.

But seriously, isn't it a bit overkill those specs? I know that if I'd go with i7 2600k I would lose about 30-40% of performance in 3ds max which is a lot. I'm new to Intel's SOCKET LGA2011, later on it supposed be possible to change to a newer cpu, right? They wouldn't just kill this socket and replace with something new.

 

[Frenchy]

Thanks for all the replies. I think I would stick to that gaming card and would add quadro 600 later on, I'm not that fussed to change cable between two cards once a week or two.

But seriously, isn't it a bit overkill those specs? I know that if I'd go with i7 2600k I would lose about 30-40% of performance in 3ds max which is a lot. I'm new to Intel's SOCKET LGA2011, later on it supposed be possible to change to a newer cpu, right? They wouldn't just kill this socket and replace with something new.

I use max a lot aswell as Maya and inventor and have 0 trouble runnign on an i7 2600k, granted im running sli'd 6000's but even on my home machine runnign sli'd 580's I get no problem with cpu limiting my capabilities. Realtime rendering is fast either way and the major contributor to the reduction of rendering times is the GPU not the CPU, atleast that is what ive found anyway.

If you're not gamign at all then id deffinately go for the best quadro you can afford they are far far superior for 3d modelling, although as I said before im not exactly sure of performance on a 600.