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General Category => General CG Discussion => Hardware => Topic started by: Michał Morzy on 2015-07-22, 15:39:11

Title: Looking for new render station
Post by: Michał Morzy on 2015-07-22, 15:39:11
Hello guys,

I need some help. I want to buy a PC for rendering. The budget is not specified yet but anything till 2000-2500 € would work. The most difficult part is to choose some processor in this budget. What could you recommend? There is a point in buying i7 5960X for Corona rendering? What else should I need? 32GB RAM, some GTX?

I would be grateful for any help in that matter.
Title: Re: Looking for new render station
Post by: Jann on 2015-07-24, 08:58:59
Quote from: Michał Morzy on 2015-07-22, 15:39:11
Hello guys,

I need some help. I want to buy a PC for rendering. The budget is not specified yet but anything till 2000-2500 € would work. The most difficult part is to choose some processor in this budget. What could you recommend? There is a point in buying i7 5960X for Corona rendering? What else should I need? 32GB RAM, some GTX?

I would be grateful for any help in that matter.
Can you provide links to the shops where you'll be ordering the parts?
That way it's easier to suggest something you can actually get ;)
Title: Re: Looking for new render station
Post by: lacilaci on 2015-07-24, 10:58:48
Quote from: Michał Morzy on 2015-07-22, 15:39:11
Hello guys,

I need some help. I want to buy a PC for rendering. The budget is not specified yet but anything till 2000-2500 € would work. The most difficult part is to choose some processor in this budget. What could you recommend? There is a point in buying i7 5960X for Corona rendering? What else should I need? 32GB RAM, some GTX?

I would be grateful for any help in that matter.

the 5960X would eat most of that budget, but it's definitely worth it in my opinion. Ammount of ram and gpu depends on the work you do.
Title: Re: Looking for new render station
Post by: agentdark45 on 2015-07-24, 13:54:52
You might be against this idea, but I managed to pick up a 12-core 3.2ghz Xeon E5 v3 on ebay for ~ £600. Works in most x99 motherboards and destroys a heavily overclocked 5960x in cpu benchmarks (cinebench e.t.c). The downside to this is that you're only covered with a 6 month warranty. I took the gamble and it's definitely paid off.
Title: Re: Looking for new render station
Post by: Paul Jones on 2015-07-25, 10:52:35
Can you post a link for the ebay shop, I feel a purchase coming on :)
Title: Re: Looking for new render station
Post by: agentdark45 on 2015-07-25, 15:12:52
Sure, here you go: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Xtreme-Micro?_trksid=p2047675.l2563