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okay I'm seeing a lot of mixed advice. The problem here is that there is a major real-world consequence of getting the wrong type of processor these days, and it is REALLY important to buy the right system for YOUR workflow The big points - - Unless you NEED 10 bit color output (unlikely) do not get a quadro. They are intended for industrial CAD / CAM workflows and are 1/10th as fast for rendering CUDA Redshift. They are intended for use cases where you need extreme floating point precision, like designing critical infrastructure. Nobody is using Quadros for Redshift / Octane. - The same goes for Xeons. Do not get a xeon system. Many builders try to sell you on xeons because they can make more markup on it. They are extremely expensive and offer little to no performance benefits vs. i7 or i9. This is basically due to A) lack of overclocking ability and B) way more expensive ECC RAM required (not necessary). The large number of cores means each core is slower than the equivalent i7/i9. AE and most tasks in Cinema are still single-threaded. The exception is if you plan on doing a lot of CPU rendering in Arnold (which is going GPU soon anyway), or high end simulation work in houdini etc. - Basically - the more cores you have, the slower each core is, this is based on thermal and manufacturing limitations. AMD TR chips are good but the same applies - only necessary for pure multithreaded CPU tasks. - Currently, for future-proofing, the only GPU I'd look at right now is the GTX 2080ti - but try to find the "blower" models and not the "open fan" designs, as those tend to just push hot air around inside your case. I'm not going into a specific parts list but from what you're saying I'd be looking at a system with an i9 chip with 8-12 cores, high megahertz boost / OC abvility (4.2-5 Ghz) very good all in one liquid cooling (a 360mm radiator is essential), and one or two GTX 2080ti's. And yes, RAM prices have blown up and stayed there due to manufacturing shortages, supposedly. I am currently rocking a machine I built with the core i7 7900X, 4x 1080ti, 128 GB RAM for similar workflows and it does great. I will say avoid Asus motherboards for now, they can have issues -Teddy On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:45 AM Robert & Jenny <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
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