Hello!
Question for you advanced users... what's best for a $6-$10k USD investment in hardware here in 2020 for an individual freelancer to supplement an already decent system?
Situation:
After years in the agency world, I've been freelancing from home for a year now and ready to up my hardware. I'm currently on a 2990x / 64gb / Max setup which has been, for the most part, been great.
Problem:
I am constantly trying to find ways to get work done faster - either by offloading renders to an online farm (but prefer to have the control of it while rendering and always run into problems with cloud rendering), or reducing the cores while rendering and attempt to work on two projects at once (which of course is always a challenge).
Do I....
Get a new blazing fast 3990x / 128gb setup and have two workstations that I can switch between to easily work on multiple projects at once so I can easily check on renderings while they are going (and use distributed rendering whenever possible)?
Do I...
Find a dedicated online workstations that actually work - is that a thing yet? Feels like in 2020 I shouldn't be buying more hardware, but haven't found any other solution yet.
Do I...
Get more sophisticated and start to build a renderfarm via deadline/backburner?
In other words- what would you do? Thanks in advance for your advice!