Sim. Render

#1

Im looking for a tower that will work best with fumefx after burn, and real flo (simulation rendering)
price range 3000-3500

anyone have suggestions?

64 bit is what im thinking, something juicy that will speed things up for me.

#2

I’ve taken the plunge and started to build my own computers about two years ago and will never look back.Only thing is if something gos out it’s up to you to fix it…which after a week of head aches you come out with alot better knowledge of how computers run.

If that’s not you cup of tea dell percicion has alot of scalable options, along with boxx tech and don’t for get Supermicro, imo one of the best serverboards to get.which is what I am running (X7DAL +E)

dual quads will chew through sims and renders, I’m running dual quad xeon for about two years and they have been great. RAM is super cheap now to so 12 gigs is affordable for you price range.

Another thing is stock intel cpu coolers are extremely noisy, I put in Noctua cpu coolers which are freaking amazing…two day of full cpu usage at 100% no noise and temps never topped 52 :slight_smile:

#3

I’m interested in this as well as I will be looking to get a new machine within the next 3-4 months. For the past 3 years I have been using a Dell 690 Dual-quad with 8 gigs of ram and it has never let me down; a real solid workhouse. I have worked at a few studios and they have used Dell machines as well and they are great machines for simming on but they tend be be really expensive. I priced one machine with 24-32 gigs of ram, zeon quads and it came in over $6,000.

Has anyone tested the i7’s or i5’s? The laptop I am typing this one is an i7 with 8 gigs and it’s pretty solid/stable when it comes to fume/rayfire but I am wondering what a tower config might grant me. They seems cheaper than quads but are they as powerful/fast?

#4

A couple of people have had a few glitches with hyper threading enabled in the i7, but I think for the most part they are great cpu.

I want me one… 24 Cores!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D11uY5dOE2c

AMD Istanbul 6 core CPU anyone using these in there Rig?

#5

^^ Was using a dual quad xeon with hyperthreading at the last place I was at, and there was significant improvement with Fume over the regular dual xeons.

^That’d be one bitchin’ machine… that’s 24 REAL cores too, not hyperthreading at work too! Very Sweet.

#6

Just out of curiosity how much ram did you have installed with hypertheading enabled?, I was under the impression that hyperthreading requires more ram as it splits the information to the cpus…

#7

We just build my new machine last week.
2x XEON 5500 quad cores with HT (16 threads/buckets when rendering etc)
24 gig ram
server board
i7 giant coolers
workstation case with 4 fans
950 watt power suply
runs win7 ultimate64
graphic card was cheap. Just a gforce with 512MB since its a sim box, mostly operated through Ultra VNC anyways…
no sound card :slight_smile:

whole setup was about 3 grand including the OS.

#8

My machine only had 12 gigs of ram, and was faster than the ones with 16… oddly enough I had to sim on the ones with 16 just so I could get a higher res sim.

#9

I am rolling with envy :smiley: sounds sweet!

#10

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