Content Catch Up (June 21 edition)

B.E. Grove

I have looked into that. There are two key problems which are 1) Not many services work with Daz Studio and 2) Those that do when calculating render times become uneconomical. For example, one service when delivering an animation of the same resolution (720p) of my last work (Woven) would charge around $0.20 per frame. Woven ended up being around 3600 frames (with bug fixing and because I rendered the background out separately). So it would've cost over $700 to do it with the online farm. Even if I had put it all together perfectly and not needed any re-renders it would've cost a minimum of $300. So averaging out a cost of around $500, in a few months of rewards (not to mention The Pill) you're already at the cost of a card itself.

MrHHH

Considering the cost of video cards, wouldn't it be cheaper to use an online rendering farm?

BacE

Noctua fans are known to be quiet and perform, water coolers still need fans to get the heat from the radiators. I know the airplane noise, that is mostly due to case fans. With 3090's 32gB system RAM shoud be enough. Ryzen 5000 series is compatable with DAZ3D IRAY Photoshop and Premiere, unless you use some specific other software, AMD should be fine. Intel still uses more power which results in more heat, that in turn translates to more fan speed and noise.

B.E. Grove

Thanks for the tip about RAM & VRAM I didn't know that and it will factor in to the build I get. I guess the thing I'm looking at with water cooling is the hopes of getting something a bit quieter than fans, My office already sounds like a plane engine when everything is rendering and if I can not double that with two new computers I'm in for a win. For the GPU I'm sticking with Nvidia and thinking the 3090 given the large vram size. For CPU I'm not as sure, I've always stuck with intel but AMD have been making some very tempting advances of late. Guess my only worry with AMD is compatability.

B.E. Grove

I do think I'll be looking at the 3090s at this point, mainly because I render with iRay which is a nvidia IP and I'm keen on the extra vram to store larger scene data. My current 2080 ti's have 11gb which is normally enough but sometimes it has to chew into system ram as well. Thanks for the tips :)

BacE

I personaly never bought a prebuilt, but that's because I used to build PC's for a living. And my last rig is still running strong after 10 years, only upgraded storage and graphics card (i7-3960-x 64 gB ram gtx 1080 almost10tB storage). But with that said, right now pre-builds are the beter options, with availability not improving until next year. Water cooling requires maintenance, even AIO's dry out over time. Big tower coolers, like Noctua's, only perform 2° worse than AIO's. What kinda CPU and GPU where you thinking about? Just one tip, your system RAM should match or be greater than your VRAM.

WaterWeight

Well for gaming, even something as simple as a 3060 or 6700 baseline are really good right now. I'm personally running a 3090 for a mix of gaming, mining, and rendering but those are quite expensive even in the best of times, your budget, depending of course. 3080TIs are nearly as much for the price with half the VRAM so not sure if that'd be an option. 2080TIs meanwhile, are still pretty strong and somewhat cheaper (normally). It's just a really hard time to build anything decently priced (or pre-built) right now because chip shortages. The good news is that you can buy either an 10xx/11xx series Intel, or 36xx / 56xx series Ryzen and be pretty well off, CPU-wise, they are both powerful today. Same with storage and RAM; if you're on NVMe / SSD you're good. Just depends on how much graphic horsepower you need for your work honestly.

B.E. Grove

Probably pre-built. I've always entertained the idea of building my own but given it's a work thing I don't want to risk it bricking due to my screw up. Plus I'm intending to buy two computers of the same specs.

Are you looking to build your own system or a prebuilt?