Building a new PC in stages

jmtbank

Do you have the confidence to go 2nd Hand?

LeatherGryphon

kenshaw011267 said:

TheMysteryIsThePoint said:

kyoto kid said:

The downside of the Threadripper for those holdouts (like myself) it is only W10 compatible whereas there is a hack to get Ryzen CPUs to work with W7.

Serious question: why not just upgrade, if it means you could have a TR? I use Windows basically as a Daz Studio runner, so maybe I don't understand what upgrading is like on a daily use computer.

There are a few very obscure apps that don't run on W10. Other than that tiny handful of people the refusal to upgrade makes no sense.

+1  I loved my Win7 machines. But I've moved on and have not regretted it.  Hell, I even bought a cheap semi-modern smart-phone and use apps now almost like a young person.  20th century is losing its grip on me.

kyoto kid

TheMysteryIsThePoint said:

kyoto kid said:

The downside of the Threadripper for those holdouts (like myself) it is only W10 compatible whereas there is a hack to get Ryzen CPUs to work with W7.

Serious question: why not just upgrade, if it means you could have a TR? I use Windows basically as a Daz Studio runner, so maybe I don't understand what upgrading is like on a daily use computer.

...I have my reasons which are why I never took the "free upgrade" path when offered, and have been a holdout this long. However not to derail the thread, I'll just leave it at that.

kyoto kid

fred9803 said:

Probably an impossible question to answer but what sort of scenes would you intend to render? There's no need for a system with all the bells and whistles if you're mostly doing well lit scenes with little geometry like single figure portraits.

I'm still amazed with the RTX 2080 I bought 18 months ago which can pump out big low-light renders with a multiple figures and props in 20-30 minutes. Horses for courses so don't waste money on redundant capacity if you don't really need it.

...at this stage and form what I gather, I don't see a 1,000$  RTX  2080 in the initial build, more like a GTX 1660 or possibly an RTX 2060.  So a High Core Count GPU is useful should the render process dump from VRAM to the CPU as it would mitigate the render time issue to a degree.  One can get an 8 core/16 thread 3.7 GHz Ryzen 7 2700X for about the price of a non hyper threading 6 core i5 9600K.

kyoto kid

fred9803 said:

Probably an impossible question to answer but what sort of scenes would you intend to render? There's no need for a system with all the bells and whistles if you're mostly doing well lit scenes with little geometry like single figure portraits.

I'm still amazed with the RTX 2080 I bought 18 months ago which can pump out big low-light renders with a multiple figures and props in 20-30 minutes. Horses for courses so don't waste money on redundant capacity if you don't really need it.

...at this stage and from what I gather, I don't see a 650$ - 750$ $  RTX  2080 in the initial build.  More like a GTX 1660 or maybe an RTX 2060.  So a High Core Count GPU is useful should the render process dump from VRAM to the CPU as it would mitigate the render time issue to a degree.  One can get an 8 core/16 thread 3.7 GHz Ryzen 7 2700X for about the price of a non hyper threading 6 core i5 9600K.