Hi all,

i'm taking the plunge and buying/building a new pc for rendering vue projects my existing pc just can't handle/takes to long!

thanks to you silverblade for your page on suggested pc build.
i've come up with the following -

Antec 1200 gamer case
Intel Core i7-950, 4x 3.06GHz
Rampage II GENE
Corsair (TR3X6G1600C8D) 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz XMS3 Dominator Memory

no idea as yet on hard drive or power supply. if anyone can offer suggestions or advice i'd be really thankfull..

jon

Well I'd double your RAM to start!
Power supply...800 Watts Min.
My HD's are Maxtor, everyone laughs at that, but they've been more reliable than Western Digital or Seagate.

Coolness, have fun with it! :)
I'd go for two hard drives, 1 main one for Windows and apps (and maybe models/textures if it's decent sized)
and other for scene files, etc etc

You did not mention a price limit, but I always build mine top of the line with no limits if it's a PC. However, the Mac Pro is great for duel-booting. You do not have to use Boot Camp on the same hard drive. It is possible to use two dedicated drives and simply select the OS you want on system boot.

If you are wanting PC only and not interested in the top line Nehalem CPUs that are only available right now on the Mac Pro then I would do:

1. Coolermaster ATCS 840 case.

2. Corsair HX 1000 Silencer Power Supply.

3. Corsair Dominator 12GB or more RAM.

4. i7 975 CPU.

5. LG Blu Ray Burner/DVD/CD.

6. Corsair H20 liquid cooling system.

7. Corsair 256GB SSD - 2X in Raid 0 configuration - 500GB for your OS and main apps.

8. 2 2TB Western Digital HD "Black edition". For data, photos, movies, etc.

9. EVGA nVidia 295 graphics card. or 2 nVidia 285 cards in SLI.

10. EVGA X58 SLI i7 motherboard.

11. Zalman high performance case cooling fans.

12. Windows 7 64 bit Professional or Ultimate.

13. Overclock to 4Ghz easily obtainable to be stable. Overclock graphics card. Custom heat sensors with external display in 5.25 drive bay, shrink tube and tidy wiring.

Hi,

Thefixer - Looks like i'll get 12GB ram!

3dneo - thanks for your suggestion, but as i said i only need the machine for rendering only. don't need additional hard drives, and think the i7 975 is way overpriced compared to say the 950.

will continue the research!!!

thanks

Hi,

so i've decided on the following-
**
Axle NVidia GeForce 8600 GT 512 MB Grafikkarte PCI-Express DirectX 10.0 512MB
**Intel Core i7-950 Box CPU Core i7 3060 MHz Socket 1366 3200 FSB 4 x 64 KB L1 4 x 256 KB L2 8192 KB L3 C0 130.0 W
**Corsair PC-12800 Core i7 Arbetisspeicher 6GB (3x 2GB, 1600MHz, Unbuffered, 8-8-8-24, DIMM) DDR3 Kit  x2
**Antec TruePower Quattro 850 12v 850W ATX PC
****EVGA Mainboards Sockel 1366 Mainboard X58 SLI LE Sound, G-LAN, SATAII-RAID
**Antec Twelve Hundred Gaming
**
any thoughts??

thanks

jon

Is this just going to be part of a render farm or a "render cow" or is it going to be used for actual Vue creation of scenes? If it is part of a node, not too bad but your RAM is still WAY too low.

On the other hand if you are getting this for a new PC for development, I would not do anything less than the specs I listed above except you could cut back on the SSD drives. Otherwise I do not think those are very good specs for primary PC development.

HI,

thanks for the reply.

its just for rendering. i have another pc dual xeon quad cores 12GB ram for creating scenes. Just need something else for rendering. Would have thought 12gb would be enough??

cheers,

jon 

3Dneo,
sorry most of us have "real life limits" so, top of the line CPUs are just Way WAY over priced!! ;)
talking between £300 to £600 for a SMALL difference, or a simple wait of 5 months....
mayeb ok for a business where time really is money so faster CPu can recoup costs, but for "mere mortals"? :)