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Cyanhide:
Hi guys,

So currently i'm officially leaving Vray behind and turning all the way to Corona. For my needs Corona offers everything I need and the overall work flow is just better. I have a small company and Its just me doing the rendering, with limited recourses.

So its that time for me to make some expenses and i'm adding a new computer to the family.  Now I don't have the funds to buy a Quadro so i'm thinking of buying either

Two titan blacks in SLI
or 1 titan Z

Bear in mind this is purely for Corona, so what would be the difference? Apart from a thousand bucks lol.

This is my current build :
117072 ASUS GTX TITAN BLACK 6GB GDDR5, CLOCK RATE 941 ( times 2 )
115767 SAMSUNG 1000GB 2.5 INCH 840 EVO SERIES BASIC MZ-7TE1T0BW
113540 WESTERN DIGITAL 3000GB WD RED™ 64MB I-POWER WD30EFRX
117580 ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 DDR3 SOCKET 1150 INTEL® Z97
114947 NZXT PHANTOM 630 GUNMETAL
115535 CORSAIR 16GB (2X8GB) 1600MHZ ZILVER CMY16GX3M2A1600C9 ( times 2 - 64gb Ram in total )
117759 INTEL CORE I7 4790K 22NM 4 CORES 8 THREADS 4 € 4,4 GHZ 8M...
110369 ASUS XONAR ESSENCE STX PCI-E
114218 CORSAIR HYDRO SERIES™ H100i EXTREME PERFORMANCE LIQ...  ( this should be NZXT Kraken X60 )
113700 CORSAIR 1200W AX1200i PROFESSIONAL SERIES CP-9020008-EU
116250 MICROSOFT 64 UK WINDOWS 8.1 64BIT OEM


Kind Regards

Captain Obvious:
Corona doesn't use the GPU at all, for anything. Buy whatever you need for viewports.

Edit: Also, go for a six-core. The extra cores will help when rendering in Corona.

Cyanhide:
I only have a basic knowledge of computers,
Edit : Noted on the 6core.

Then what would I need?  save some money on the GFX card and spend it on a different CPU? Like an intel Xeon?

Captain Obvious:
The Xeon and i7 are the exact same CPUs for the most part, the only difference is that you need a Xeon for a multi-CPU setup (which also requires a special motherboard with two (or more CPU sockets) and the Xeons are available with more cores. If you have a high budget, a dual Xeon system is pretty awesome. But it's also super-expensive. For the most part it's not worth the money.

Might I make a recommendation though? If you only have basic knowledge of computers, just buy one!

Cyanhide:
I'd rather not buy a pre-made one, more expensive that way. And besides where's the fun in that.
I just wanted to know what I'd need to make a good render machine for corona.

Thanks for your help so far though.

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