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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen builds

« on: 2025-01-22, 00:05:06 »

Thanks for the reply, the main problem here is that people have bought all the components from the market when they were cheaper so now there's a mass shortage of critical components like Motherboard, as I see now all x870e motherboards are almost out of stock here, there are some TUF x870 as well as Gigabyte ones but I don't know how they work. There is only one shop having x870e Mobos 1000km far from me so I should decide to really rely on this shop or just forget the 9950x and go for the 7950x..


Same story about EXPO and Corsair memories, since I need 96gb they are either so expensive here or non-EXPO .. thanks for your recommendation, I should check the MB QVL as well.

Regarding the cooler, yeah you are right, I found out that it's very noisy so I don't want it really cuz I hate the noise and I want the most quiet one, unfortunately the Be Quiet brand doesn't exist here so I should search for the most possible silent coolers here. Because of the noise I might totally avoid a 420 one, I am not sure really.

Also thanks for the case and other suggestions, if other people can also help here about the whole build choices I would appreciate it.

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen builds

« on: 2025-01-21, 02:34:35 »

Hi Vuk,

While I find Juraj's answer very helpful but your answer is also very detailed and closer to my current situation, honestly I was a bit disappointed about Mobo and RAM as I really didn't know what to do, but now I have a more clear view. Your experience with building 2*9950x systems helps a lot.


You know it's easier for my budget to get the 7950x but its issue with 192GB RAM as you mentioned gives me enough excuse to go for the 9950x, I can explain my workflow so it might help more: I make cinematic scenes like movies in Cinema4d/Corona so my scenes are mostly very huge including a lot of 3d scans, this way I easily get the Corona memory error in IPR compilation phase or the scene becomes so laggy, on the other hand I use After Effects with a lot of effects that results in lack of memory in RAM Preview so fast. Because of all that I should really have a lot of RAM, 128GB might sound good for me coming from a 64GB system but 192GB is really ideal to make big scenes.


I was in doubt about the EXPO but since all 4 slots are gonna be naturally occupied then I can avoid it, right? however I guess 2*48GB EXPO don't exist in my living country. Also because of my budget I can only buy 2*48gb for now and I should add another 2*48gb later. Is it ok this way?

So about the MB since I should go for the X870e chipsets then I would liked to know your opinion as well, ASUS ProArt X870e Creator seems to be the most solid one, that's right? or you suggest other ones as well? I should mention that unfortunately the ASRock brand doesn't exist in my country, but I am also afraid of the Gigabyte chipsets. If you can tell me your opinion about this I would be happy as well, because I am really concerned about the MB. This is the list they gave me today in the shop after a lot of consultation:

ASUS Ryzen 9950x
ASUS TUF X670e Plus
Corsair Vengeance 2*48gb 5600
Samsung 990 Pro 1 tb
ASUS RTX 4070 TI Super OC
Corsair H170i elite Capellix xt
Corsair HX1000 80 Plus Platinum
Deepcool Morpheus Case

So since we are gonna change some parts in this list I would liked to ask these questions as well:

Is their suggested case good? they had some other suggestions as well but they finally offered DeepCool Morpheus. Unfortunately as I see all Fractal cases are out of stock here based on what I see. So if you have other suggestions as well I really appreciate it.

Also unfortunately the Arctic brand doesn't exist here anymore otherwise I'd have gotten that one in first place. So what do you think about the Cooler? Considering if 420 has a real sense over 360, I would be happy to know your opinion.

I also wanted to know your opinion about getting a Gen5 SSD, does it make sense for our work considering its price? has it a real effect when loading 3d scenes, compilation and also video editing? or that 990 gen4 is enough?

If you can answer fast I would really appreciate it, I need the PC for working on a serious project and I am just stuck.. Thanks in advance

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper & Ryzen builds

« on: 2025-01-19, 01:35:25 »

Friends is it relevant to ask questions regarding new builds here? or better to make a new thread?

If correct to ask here then the main issue is that I am stuck between choosing 7950x and 9950x for my new build..
It might be helpful to mention that 9950x is twice price as 7950x in my area, also 7950x ones could be only found in Tray stacks that I don't know how much I can trust, however they claim to have a good replacement warranty..

Can I know your opinion what's the best to do in such situation? Going for the 7950x or the 9950x? Is 10-15 percent performance increase of 9950x worth it? (I use interactive view a lot, so not just I use the CPU constantly but I need high speed too)

If we can pass this step, can you recommend the correct components for the build?
My concerns after choosing the CPU are:

- Good Motherboard with good VRM tolerating the high stress I give the CPU, supporting PCIe 5th gen (if it really helps faster workflow), 128 or 192 GB RAM support
- A final solution for the RAM: 2*2*48 / 2*2*32 GB 5200 corsair vengeance with AMD Expo?
- A decent but not expensive AIO and PSU
- Fractal Define Torrent for the case as always recommended or something else? (My living area is mostly hot)

Thanks in advance,

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[C4D] Bug Reporting / Re: Thin Film shader and the new Physical Material

« on: 2023-11-23, 09:35:05 »

Hi Beanz,

Your attached example looked really nice, to which channel do you add the Thin-Film shader? And I was curious, does it only work with Metal presets? Thanks,

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Corona Render & Xpresso?

« on: 2023-02-27, 15:25:18 »

New update:

The baked Corona Lights don't even work with LightMix (to compensate the lack of Range Mapper with Corona Light) and everything is messed up..

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Noise/White Spots produced by Corona Skylight Volume Effect

« on: 2023-02-25, 05:27:19 »

Okay, thanks for letting me know. If you can, please feel free to send me the scene via a support ticket (link in my signature below) and I'll take a look for you. :)

While reducing the scene for uploading I remembered to use Highlight Clamping and it indeed solved the fireflies issue, but the only drawback is that it will kill the Dynamic Range in the final render, that's right?

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Noise/White Spots produced by Corona Skylight Volume Effect

« on: 2023-02-25, 01:44:07 »

Thanks friend, sure I will send it.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Corona Render & Xpresso?

« on: 2023-02-25, 01:43:21 »

I had a look at the file and rendered it out. Is this what you are expecting to get?

Thanks man for your effort and time, honestly speaking I can get that result but the problem is that it works very random, also more important it doesn't work with Range Mapper.. It's sort of out of control..

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Corona Render & Xpresso?

« on: 2023-02-24, 01:33:24 »

Thanks man, that's great. Once I was accidently able to get some results from the Corona Light and Xpresso so I baked it (using the Timeline function>bake) to use in another scene because of the Sound Effector inability in setting start/end frames (that's a bad drawback/limitation in C4d), and when I merged the Corona Light with its Xpresso in the new scene again it was not possible to use a Range Mapper with it, it totally didn't work, but something interesting happened!

In fact it was possible to increase or decrease the baked Corona Light intensity by adding it into the Corona LightMix that's a huge benefit of LightMix but from my side there is also a minor drawback, because I myself apply all the lightmix values/setup to the scene before the final rendering in fact I remove all the lightmix passes from MultiPass to decrease the render time but this way and in this case at lease the baked Corona Light pass should exist in the lightmix..

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Corona Render & Xpresso?

« on: 2023-02-23, 23:00:39 »

Hi, are you able to share a zipped example of your scene?

Thanks man, now I was preparing the scene as Bengamin mentioned. Things totally look out of control when working with Corona lights and Xpresso, I don't know really.. maybe you can figure it out by taking a look at the scene example, thanks.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Corona Render & Xpresso?

« on: 2023-02-23, 22:35:53 »

There is a bug in C4D that prevents the sample node from actually doing its work: You need to add a solid node (or use fields in general) to make your setup work.
No blame goes to Corona in this case.

Thanks friend, I am aware of that issue, sound effector is not the problem in my case but the Range Mapper.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Noise/White Spots produced by Corona Skylight Volume Effect

« on: 2023-02-23, 21:01:57 »

Hello Bengamin, thanks man for your time indeed. I am not using global volume exactly cuz of bad experience with its fireflies and unabling to clean the noise. So I am just using the Skylight volume, I am also using Corona High Quality Denoising, as I see you have no fireflies in the last example. So I cannot figure out what's the issue honestly speaking.. because my scene is also very simple and there's not any special element making problems, I have no clue honestly speaking!

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[C4D] I need help! / Noise/White Spots produced by Corona Skylight Volume Effect

« on: 2023-02-23, 01:07:52 »

Hi,
Anyone facing white spots or splotches produced by the Corona Skylight Volume? The Corona Sun & Sky themselves are perfectly noise-free but I noticed that the Skylight Volume is producing some white dots on the surface of water (simple Corona physical material water preset) which I couldn't get rid of.

To be sure, I increased the roughness in the water material a bit so that I wouldn't have a 100% glossy water surface but it didn't help. I also disabled the "show in reflections" in the Corona Sun parameters but it also didn't help. Any ideas? Maybe Beanzvision can help me out with this issue as well. Thanks,

*Something I also needed to add is that the strong straight line between the water and the sky in the horizon is not visible in the Interactive Render but visible in the Final Render. Maybe you can help about this as well.

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[C4D] I need help! / Re: Corona Render & Xpresso?

« on: 2023-02-23, 00:38:55 »

Thanks for the reply and your time friend,

Yeah I see it working very well in your example but I have at least 2 issues up to this point:

1) Range Mapper problem: I'm having a Corona light reacting to the sound effector to achieve the flickering effect, the problem is that the corona light is not working well with the Range Mapper while the native C4d lights work pretty smooth. In one word I cannot easily and simply increase or decrease the Corona light intensity. My setup is as easy as this example from a Reddit forum:


2) But my main overal problem is that I cannot totally set driver/driven for some of the Corona lights and elements in the scene. For example I wanna simply drive the light intensity of a Corona light by any other C4d factor but I see they mostly don't work, or at least sometimes they work and sometimes they don't work. I'm not an expert in this subject or maybe I am missing something but I'm totally having a hard time using Corona with Xpresso while it could be really beneficial. Any ideas?

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[C4D] I need help! / Corona Render & Xpresso?

« on: 2023-02-19, 23:48:54 »

Hi friends, can you confirm if Corona is functioning well with Xpresso from simple tasks like set driver/driven to more complicated structures? I cannot figure it out if they work together well or not, it seems so random sometimes working and sometimes not working.. Any advice?