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From what I gather they are pretty decent. Just do a bit of research to find a motherboard that is compatible with it.
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I gonna go for this one MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS cuz my processor is AMD FX 4100 and is kind of cheap!
How many cores does the processor have? Mine has 6 and I have seen videos of it working with a 960 and it does pretty well. Cheap doesn't mean good. Read up before buying just so you don't get stuck with a dud. I know what it's like to be on a budget, and I also know how it feels when you find you've wasted it on the wrong products.
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it have 4 cores and 3.6Mhz, released on 2011, it works well at lease for me, my renders usually takes like 2hrs with iray default setting and CPU only, and just to be clear, all this mombojambo was because I wanted to reduce the render time, since I been heard a lot that the graphics card only help you with that, and nothing else, so when I said cheap I was refering to the motherboard, its only 79.99 dollars, comparing with other MSI motherboards and with the UEFI Bios and SLI - Crossfire I think it will do the job just fine, I used to use a Intel Core 2 Duo on a laptop and DS3 Advanced and took hrs to render a big image, since the HDD burn! I was looking for a better machine, that put me with AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ and DS 4.8 and that, well... let's say that I change a Dinosaur for a Cell, so I thought this Acer will do the job, but with the hardware restrictions, well, a new Mobo its need it.
The Image below its may last render till today and took about 2hr and 15min at 99% on CPU only, default setting, so by now I feel rich having a 269 dollars paperweight at lease till the new mobo and case arrive!!
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...well when I get to the point of starting on my next build, the new Pascal architecture GPUs should be available with up to 16 - 32 GB of HDR2 memory and between 5,000 - 6,000 cores.
As I mentioned, I create big scenes which at minimum, require the resources of a Quadro K/M5200 (8 GB) and optimally a Titan-X (12 GB).
Ok, hope it all works out for you.
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Cool. I like both mine. Lovely and quiet; no noise in normal use, and only slight fan noise (only just hear and I don't listen to music as a rule) when im using both in the render.
Just use GPUz to monitor temperature when you first get it; can see that all memory gets used, and that temperatures don't get silly; basically it's a simple check for a faulty card.
Yeah, I often use that. Fan noise from the other cooling fans is more of an issue than fan noise from the graphics card. It's the design of the grilles where the fans are that causes it. It was offputting at first but I've grown used to it now.
What intrigued me was that, in Jan 2014, a GTX760 was considered good for a pro build by 3D World! It was probaby only 2gb at the time too. All the other components used were way more expensive than what I used.
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Well, that's it, the Strix is ordered!
I also bought Mec4D's Unshaven so I can give things a bit of a workout when it's all set up.
Fingers crossed.....
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5000-6000 cores sounds quite exciting but how much will it cost by comparison with my 970 (1660) cores? I would expect the intial release of the Pascal cards to be premium priced by comparision with their predecessors.
On the noise issue, loud fans don't bother me as long as the noise they make is low pitched.
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It can not bother you, but can still cause tinititus
...there will be GTX units based on the Pascal Architecture released next year. If they are in the cost range of a 980 TI - Titan-X (which from what I have been reading looks like the case) that would be a huge boost for the 3D community. Two of these would almost allow for realtime rendering. Four of them would guarantee it (basically it would be be like having a VCA in the box). .
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I'll bow down to you if you can afford 4 Titans.
This is just for myself. I have a couple of GTX 980s in my machine right now. Both are air-cooled and they're fast!
A GTX 980 Asus Strix is the minimum for me, but I do other processing with my GPUs; not just rendering.
If recommending to others, I'd suggest that you should go no lower than a GTX 960. Always get the one with the most memory.
Remember that all cards are air-cooled. Even the ones that use water. You'll still have a radiator with one or two fans. But water-cooling often lets you run your fans slower, which means your system will be quieter.
This is good, because fan noise can be subconsciously fatiguing over time. But there are cons to water cooling. Open systems (the kind you build) add complexity and can't be moved easily (you may need to drain the system). Closed systems will each require a mounting space for the radiator. You could quickly run out of room in all but the biggest computer cases.
For me, I water cool the CPU and air cool the GPUs. For now.
...need to get a really good paying job or hit the Megabucks Lotto first.
The build using the 4 Titan Xs, dual Xeon-3 8 core CPUs and 128 GB of Quad Channel DDR4 memory will be about 8,500$ total. As a custom build, it would cost about 18,000$.
Glad I took all that the time to learn about designing and building computers.
My current workstation (at the time it was built) would have been around 3,000$ if I went through a custom house. I spent about 1,200$ (sans display as I already had one).
The Pascal units are to be even more energy efficient than what we currently have and like AMD's Fury-X will have a smaller form factor (about half the size of a GTX 980).They will be compatible with PCI 3.0 x16 but they would shred using NV Link. The NV-Link MB is the only part that may up the price (which is currently based on a PCI 3.0 board) as there are no commercial models out yet.
£6000 is a heck of a lot of wedge to spend on a PC. I will definitely have spent over £1000, but certainly not more than £2000. Back in '93, my first PC, including a B&W printer, cost me £1185.25. It had 4mb (Yes mb, not gb!) of RAM, no optical drive and a 100mb hard drive! That shows you how much things have progressed since then. The state of the art systems in those days were the Silicon Graphics workstations used by ILM for the effects in Jurassic Park. I suspect a decent laptop would put them to shame now.
Provided my Strix works I think I'll be happy with my build for some time to come
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My Strix arrived earlier, it's in, up and running and I LOVE it!!
A render that would have taken 20 mins now takes just a hair over 4. The iterations are much higher now too. It has made a shedload of difference and I'll be able to render far better scenes now than I ever could have before. I would HIGHLY recommend the Asus Strix GTX960 with 4gb VRAM.
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...wouldn't have helped with this scene.
Final render took over 4 hrs at 1,600 x 1,200 in CPU mode.
This took pretty much all the processor and physical memory resources I had (11 GB) as well as causing the system to nearly grind to a halt for any other activity.
This is why I need a Titan-X
No, you're right, it probably wouldn't.
As we're talking about minimum specs here, I wouldn't recommend anything lower spec than a 960. I think I've got the perfect system for my needs now.
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