New 3D Rig

[NMCK]

Im looking to build a rig to be mainly used to 3d work and will be used for rendering quite often.

This is what I have come up with so far:

P9X79 PRO Motherboard

Intel Core i7-3930K

G.Skill RipJawsZ 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz

Fractal Design Define R3 Black Pearl Mid-Tower USB 3.0 Case

Corsair 750 Watt Pro Series Gold AX750

Corsair 120 GB SSD

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 830MHz 1GB PCI-Express HDMI

noctua nh-d14

Can anyone give me some feedback on what might need changing or what else I could consider, thanks.

 

[DAN131]

a nice rig the only thing that i would change is upgrading the gpu to the 560ti as it not much extra money.

 

[AndyMosh]

I'd get 16gb of ram but get 2 sticks of 8gb if you can, it works better for overclocking (which I assume you'll want to do with that CPU), it's rare but having 4 modules sometimes makes an overclock unstable when it could be.

This is what I understand, if anyone else wants to correct me or back me up feel free

 

[PetrolHead247]

Looks good. One thing i'd change is the GPU, you could get a GTX 560Ti 448 for just under £200 these days, or you could go for something else. If you can, i'd say getting a 2nd Corsair SSD and putting them in Raid 0 would be a nice idea, would make your system unbelievably quick, although it's not necessary

 

[NMCK]

a nice rig the only thing that i would change is upgrading the gpu to the 560ti as it not much extra money.

Looks good. One thing i'd change is the GPU, you could get a GTX 560Ti 448 for just under £200 these days, or you could go for something else. If you can, i'd say getting a 2nd Corsair SSD and putting them in Raid 0 would be a nice idea, would make your system unbelievably quick, although it's not necessary

How much performance increase would I see from the 560ti?

I am using 2 monitors, one being 2560x1440. So I would consider the ti version if you think there would be much of a difference.

I like the idea of multiple SSDs but initially Ill just go for one, ill look into adding more in the future though.

 

[WYP]

what software are you using for this 3d work?

 

[NMCK]

3DS Max mostly, Also a bit of Mudbox and Maya

 

[WillSK]

I would definitely suggest the upgrade to the 560Ti 448 core version. especially if you are running multiple monitors. It will give you that extra boost of GPU power. However if you're planning on gaming on dual monitors i'd suggest an even better card or SLI

 

[DanielSK]

I work with 3dsMax as well and recently build a computer much like yours only fore rendering,

P9x79 PRO

i7 3930K

16GB(4x4GB) Corsair XMS3 (I had it laying around)

[font="Verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans"]Corsair 500R White[/font]

Corsair 90gb SSD

Corsair H100

OCZ Fatal1ty 550W PSU

And have other main rig (actually a bit slower in many things) That I work on.

For rendering without going Xeon it`s the best CPU worth buying, But I would recomend buying also one HDD (1 or 2 TB) all the files in max are enormous, and you need to store, tree, car, people models, things like that. And videos before you compress them save each file in TGA, it can reach 10GB in videos that last less than one minute in 720p.

As for the GTX560 I had one GTX560ti that I changed for the 6970(ASUS DCII) because I use 3x1080p monitors (actually 4 times but one just as a mirror) and it`s just fine, I have a friend who have bought a Quadro 6000 (it`s faster without a doubt) but just doesn't justify the money. In my gaming rig I always go for Nvidia, but I have the impression that the bigger amount of memory in the AMD videocards works better with 3dsMax, so in my work machine I have been using them lately. So I thing I would recommend something like a 6870

 

[SparkleDJackson]

Dude if i were you i would score the msi tf2 gtx560ti 2gb version. Its great i have it and it works like a charm. Not too pricey but the extra vram will certainly give you a little more breathing room my setup is very similar but the card runs bf3 very well at tht resolution and has never dipped below 30 so id say get that one then crank it a little. Very good card for the money

 

[NMCK]

Thanks for the info, I think ill go for the gtx 560ti.

@DanielSK Ive already got other HDDs that ill be adding but thanks for the suggestion. Does the 3930k perform well when rendering?

 

[WillSK]

Thanks for the info, I think ill go for the gtx 560ti.

@DanielSK Ive already got other HDDs that ill be adding but thanks for the suggestion. Does the 3930k perform well when rendering?

From what i've read my assumption is that the better the processor the better it is at tasks such as rendering. I'm pretty sure that the performance gain from hyper threading is also more notable for tasks such as this when it is perhaps not so much in gaming.