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Title: Workstation advice
Post by: abeer on 2017-11-22, 20:52:59
hello
iam newbie to corona and would like some suggestion for workstation. I am switching from i7 to workstation for first time so wana try my hand  on a used workstation,and if all goes fine i will switch to new one later.Below is my choice from ebay within my budget, i use 3dsmax ,corona render for architectural visualisation and photoshop usually

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Z800-Workstation-PC-DUAL-Xeon-CPU-8-Core-48GB-RAM-SSD-HDD-Windows-10-Pro-WiFi/172636483634?_trkparms=aid%3D555017%26algo%3DPL.CASSINI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20151016114640%26meid%3Da6cc64134e594840ba17d332eb5f61f4%26pid%3D100507%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26&_trksid=p2045573.c100507.m3226#rwid (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Z800-Workstation-PC-DUAL-Xeon-CPU-8-Core-48GB-RAM-SSD-HDD-Windows-10-Pro-WiFi/172636483634?_trkparms=aid%3D555017%26algo%3DPL.CASSINI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20151016114640%26meid%3Da6cc64134e594840ba17d332eb5f61f4%26pid%3D100507%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26&_trksid=p2045573.c100507.m3226#rwid)

Thanks
Title: Re: Workstation advice
Post by: Jens on 2017-11-23, 10:16:15
What model is your current i7 CPU? You can type it in on the benchmark site and compare the performance to the X5550 Xeons you would get in that ebay build:

https://corona-renderer.com/benchmark/cpu/X5550
Title: Re: Workstation advice
Post by: Jann on 2017-11-23, 16:49:32
Quote from: abeer on 2017-11-22, 20:52:59
hello
iam newbie to corona and would like some suggestion for workstation. I am switching from i7 to workstation for first time so wana try my hand  on a used workstation,and if all goes fine i will switch to new one later.Below is my choice from ebay within my budget, i use 3dsmax ,corona render for architectural visualisation and photoshop usually

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Z800-Workstation-PC-DUAL-Xeon-CPU-8-Core-48GB-RAM-SSD-HDD-Windows-10-Pro-WiFi/172636483634?_trkparms=aid%3D555017%26algo%3DPL.CASSINI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20151016114640%26meid%3Da6cc64134e594840ba17d332eb5f61f4%26pid%3D100507%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26&_trksid=p2045573.c100507.m3226#rwid (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Z800-Workstation-PC-DUAL-Xeon-CPU-8-Core-48GB-RAM-SSD-HDD-Windows-10-Pro-WiFi/172636483634?_trkparms=aid%3D555017%26algo%3DPL.CASSINI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20151016114640%26meid%3Da6cc64134e594840ba17d332eb5f61f4%26pid%3D100507%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26&_trksid=p2045573.c100507.m3226#rwid)

Thanks
Please don't buy that. They are very old Xeons, with less rendering power than a single AMD Ryzen R5 1600 6core.
I'd say better to part out a Ryzen R5 1600 and upgrade to R7 1700 or better later on. Could try to fit the same budget, but would be faster, with proper warranty and future expansion.
Title: Re: Workstation advice
Post by: Rimas on 2018-01-18, 17:26:31
Oh dear, don't buy that. Those are early 2009 quad-core chips of old architecture. A modern i7 or AMD Ryzen offering, as suggested earlier, will do better and support more modern instruction sets. And eat less power.
Title: Re: Workstation advice
Post by: Nejc Kilar on 2018-01-18, 18:33:54
Quote from: Rimas on 2018-01-18, 17:26:31
Oh dear, don't buy that. Those are early 2009 quad-core chips of old architecture. A modern i7 or AMD Ryzen offering, as suggested earlier, will do better and support more modern instruction sets. And eat less power.

Gotta say I agree with this. You'll probably get more performance from a single Ryzen 1700 and you'll have a new machine with full warranty for not that much more. Plus you'll be able to upgrade down the line and avoid any potential issues if something in the HP workstation dies due to proprietary components.