Will i7-4790K processor fit on a Gigabyte Motherboard GA-X58A-UD7?

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Sunny Kapoor

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I wish to upgrade my current processor i7 960 to i7-4790K .

I am using a Gigabyte Motherboard GA-X58A-UD7.

Will i7-4790K processor fit on a Gigabyte Motherboard GA-X58A-UD7?
 
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Nope, different socket. You need a socket 1150 (Z87, Z97, H97, B85, H81) motherboard. You've got just about the best processor you can get for that socket, so an upgrade means a new motherboard unfortunately.
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I am actually looking to set up a small render farm, and was suggested to upgrade my main system, as it is slow compared to i7-4790K. I am using a quadro 4000 nvidia card which can easily handle a lot of polygons, billions in VUE software when working in the view port. I can actually work on Blender and run a RPG game on the second monitor simultaneously. I have 12 GB RAM.

Rendering is the problem, whether I go GPU or CPU it takes lot of time, average 2 hrs for a HD movie quality render frame.

Is it recommended to upgrade my main workstation while my 3 render nodes are way faster- each having i7-4790K or I can do with the current system for next few years and spend money on the nodes instead?
 
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So I'm a little confused about your goals? What's holding you back? HD Movie Renders? Is that right?

What software are you using for the render?

The 6 ccore 5820K is a big step up for multithreaded, CPU intensive tasks (like rendering). Even at stock it should be well over twice as fast for those tasks, possible around 3 times as fast with an overclock. But that means at least a new CPU, motherboard, RAM and possibly OS... so you're looking at $700 or more easily.

Again, if you can be really clear about what specifically is holding you back I might be able to suggest an upgrade more confidently, but at the moment I'm not sure I understand.
 
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3D animation renders, as I mentioned blender and Vue 3D software.

Probably planning to go with this config- going to buy 3 of such render nodes. I will get 2 x i7-4790K for the price of one 6 core 5820K.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/bfKpwP

The idea is to have more render nodes with my current setup which is below. Now the extra $500 I spend on upgrading my system right now, I can buy another node to increase the speed.

Current system:


Intel Core i7 950 3.07 GHz
RAM 12 GB
Normal seagate harddisks with external hard disk total 2 TB
Nvidia Quadro 4000 which supports dual monitors. ( Gets over heated to 95 degree when running games or rendering 3D scenes)
Cooler Master Cabinet HF922
Cooler Master silent Pro 750 Watt PSU
Gigabyte Motherboard GA-X58A-UD7

Now rendering a simple image like this at high resolution, it takes 1 hrs 40 minutes both with cpu and gpu. Impossible to complete short animation movies with this speed on tight deadline.

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Why 3 nodes, so I can render in network and leave my main system to work on other things. Even though setting up 3 individual system would mean more electricity, but in the long process, if some thing goes wrong with one machine I can work with the other two.

What do you suggest should I go with this or setup or this 2 x 6 core xeons on a server motherboard to use 12 cores in one computer, that is 24 threads.

 
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Sorry, I've been away and it looks like no-one else has else has contributed.

Usually the price difference between a 4790K and 5820K is not massive, and now DDR4 RAM is more reasonable priced, it's a much more compelling option. The extra 2 cores on the 5820K will make a massive difference for rendering tasks.

To be honest though, I don't have experience with render nodes so while I can make some general suggestions, I'm not the right person to designing your set up for you.

A few things to think about though:
- when you say it takes x amount of time "with both cpu and gpu", which one is loaded? It's unlikely that they're both running 100% and you want to throw more resources at the bottleneck first.
- How much of the workload can be offloaded to GPU? As I say, this is not my area, but if the bulk of the render can be done in GPU, that's where you should be spending your money, not in masses of CPUs.
- Are you intending to overclock? Because if not, Xeon E3s (like the 1231V3) are usually cheaper than 4790Ks. You give up a little clock speed but otherwise it's the same as the i7, just without an integrated GPU.

Anyway, good luck. I hope you find some solid advice.
 
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I actually tested them cpu and gpu one by one. Both are taking almost same time.

Also the quadro 4000 card emits amazing heat, goes up to 95 degrees ( even in a AC room). I cannot seem to find any cooler for it. There is for geforce 980 but not for quadro. Meanwhile I can easily get corsair liquid coolers for cpus.

I am going to use blender and not everything can be rendered with a GPU with it. On the other hand VUE only works with CPU. That is why I wish to go that route.

Thanks for the help, I will post another thread regarding the render farm and which processor to choose.
 
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