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Hardware / AMD Ryzen, Intel i7 or Dual Xeon Workstation as a new rig?
« on: 2017-03-07, 14:57:35 »
Dear all!
I've been following the forum for quite some time now, but never posted anything. Until today. :-)
The reason beeing is that I need a new PC/workstation. My background: I'm a graduated Architect who worked as a CG artist for the last two years mainly for one smaller company. So I did everything on my college PC up to this point. Now I want to continue on a freelance basis and therefor I need a new rig. I've been reading threads and articles for days now, but can't really find the right solution for me. That's why I'm asking you for help. I'm trying to give you as much information as possible.
As I said, I'm an Architect and have zero to none expertise in computer science. I use ArchiCAD, Cinema 4D and - obviously - Corona for my renders. Render times on my current machine are brutal as is working on bigger scenes. So I thought I would buy a new PC with an awesome CPU and a decent GPU (GTX 1080) and would be ready to go. But it seems to be quite more challenging than I expected.
I'm planning on using the rig for other things as well, like video and photo editing, and a bunch of other Adobe stuff. I even consider using GPU-based renderes and maybe even Unreal Engine in the future, too. That's why I wanted to go with a gaming PC (although I'm not a big PC-gamer). But then I read a lot of posts from you guys about work stations. Up to this point I'm not even sure if I know what exactly a work station is in comparison to a normal PC. All I read is, that you can build a decent station with a lot of horse power for less money.
Speaking of money: I would spend around 2.000 - 2.500 €. I've also been advised to wait for the new Ryzen chips from AMD. One (german) shop even builds a rig with the new 1800X: https://www.alternate.de/html/product/1336397
Sorry for posting so much, but I wanted to give you guys a better understanding of what I need (or at least think I need?)
I've been following the forum for quite some time now, but never posted anything. Until today. :-)
The reason beeing is that I need a new PC/workstation. My background: I'm a graduated Architect who worked as a CG artist for the last two years mainly for one smaller company. So I did everything on my college PC up to this point. Now I want to continue on a freelance basis and therefor I need a new rig. I've been reading threads and articles for days now, but can't really find the right solution for me. That's why I'm asking you for help. I'm trying to give you as much information as possible.
As I said, I'm an Architect and have zero to none expertise in computer science. I use ArchiCAD, Cinema 4D and - obviously - Corona for my renders. Render times on my current machine are brutal as is working on bigger scenes. So I thought I would buy a new PC with an awesome CPU and a decent GPU (GTX 1080) and would be ready to go. But it seems to be quite more challenging than I expected.
I'm planning on using the rig for other things as well, like video and photo editing, and a bunch of other Adobe stuff. I even consider using GPU-based renderes and maybe even Unreal Engine in the future, too. That's why I wanted to go with a gaming PC (although I'm not a big PC-gamer). But then I read a lot of posts from you guys about work stations. Up to this point I'm not even sure if I know what exactly a work station is in comparison to a normal PC. All I read is, that you can build a decent station with a lot of horse power for less money.
Speaking of money: I would spend around 2.000 - 2.500 €. I've also been advised to wait for the new Ryzen chips from AMD. One (german) shop even builds a rig with the new 1800X: https://www.alternate.de/html/product/1336397
Sorry for posting so much, but I wanted to give you guys a better understanding of what I need (or at least think I need?)