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£5k ($7.8k) build help please

Pixxie_payne
Level 7
so i have finaly gotten a dream job and i am planning on building a super high end pc for 3d animation rendering and games production aswell as playing, recording and editing videos for youtube.

so far i have:
CPU: Intel i7-3770k
GPU: 2x GTX 690
Ram: 4x8gb (32gb) Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz
Motherboard: Asus Maximus V forumula z77
Case: Cooler Master Cosmos 2
Cooling:
CPU,GPU,NorthBridge = Custom liquid cooling
RAM = Cooling fan/ no cooler
Liquid cooling radiator(s) = 3x120mm rad + 2x120mm rad
Cooling fans = Corsair SP series
Harddrive:
Boot Drive: SSD (Unconfirmed model and size)
Storage and media: WD Green caviar (unconfirmed size)
PSU: open to suggestions
looking at getting a Sea sonic platinum 1000w
Optical drive: blueray reader and burner (unconfirmed model)

but i cant figure out what ssd, psu or ram to use, i want to get realy high end stuff and max out everything for it so i wont have to upgrade.

post what you would suggest or a entire build spec
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DaemonCantor wrote:
Not only, it also takes the Drivers plus with the Work Station Cards there are other pieces of Hardware in the like Gun Lock, Frame Buffers and so forth that accelerate the Rendering/Graphics Production. These extra Features plus the Heavy Testing for Compatibility and Functionality are what makes them so expensive and not very good for playing a game...Not that you couldn't just you won't like the Frame Rates you get versus a Card made for Main Stream Computing. Trust me there is a LOT more to Workstation Cards than just How Many CUDA Cores it's got.


i understand the architecture difference, but the gtx 690 is the half way card between a workstation and a gaming gpu
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DaemonCantor
Level 13
True...True and I'm not saying no it's just Not only for you but also anyone else that has this question I'm doing my best in giving the information we all need and I do hope it helps you too.

Gorman
Level 12
Well since it's real time graphics you would be fine with a 460 😛

It's not that strenuous of a field to work in, so your top of the line gaming build would be the best choice then. No point getting a quadro to build graphics that need to render on a 680, or on an xbox or whatever platform you will be deving for.

Not that that really matters, it's not like you are building the entire game, so your assets will easily be workable on a mid-level gaming computer.

If you explain more about what software you use, how you use them, and what you will be working on then it will be easier to describe what you need. In general you should be fine with a single high end GPU, enough RAM, a good SSD for your working director, and a CPU that is nice enough and you should be fine. Even a mid level gaming PC can handle a more polys than you will need on any single asset (otherwise it would be quite a problem), and besides that most of the stress comes from post-processing / physics, etc, not the assets themselves.