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Dear community,
I would really appreciate your help/advice on a new build for a small creative studio with a budget of around $2,000 USD. We will be doing video compositing, special effects, VR experiences and some small 3D video games. This computer would be our second build, and later we would be building another one, not necesarily with the same hardware, but for the same purpose.
The software we would be using is Win 10 Pro, Maya, Zbrush, Unreal Engine and Nuke. I include their respective system requirements below. As you will see the most demanding software is Nuke, but we don't have the budget to buy a workstation with those certified characteristics. Therefore we want to go for something in the middle of these system requirements. Initially, I created the following build, considering only 32GB (Pc Part Picker - i78700K) but I would appreciate your valuable advice on this, specially because I have no idea whether a Xeon build would be more suitable (I have no experience building with Xeon).
Overclocking is something we are willing to do, but never tried before. We are planning to buy the parts next week.
Maya / Zbrush / Nuke / Unreal Engine 4
I thank you in advance for any advice or guidance you can provide
I would really appreciate your help/advice on a new build for a small creative studio with a budget of around $2,000 USD. We will be doing video compositing, special effects, VR experiences and some small 3D video games. This computer would be our second build, and later we would be building another one, not necesarily with the same hardware, but for the same purpose.
The software we would be using is Win 10 Pro, Maya, Zbrush, Unreal Engine and Nuke. I include their respective system requirements below. As you will see the most demanding software is Nuke, but we don't have the budget to buy a workstation with those certified characteristics. Therefore we want to go for something in the middle of these system requirements. Initially, I created the following build, considering only 32GB (Pc Part Picker - i78700K) but I would appreciate your valuable advice on this, specially because I have no idea whether a Xeon build would be more suitable (I have no experience building with Xeon).
Overclocking is something we are willing to do, but never tried before. We are planning to buy the parts next week.
■ Maya
CPU: 64-bit Intel® or AMD® multi-core processor with SSE4.2 instruction set
GPU: A list goes from a GTX 680 to a Quadro M6000
RAM: 8 GB of RAM (16 GB or more recommended)
HDD: 4 GB of free disk space for install
■ Zbrush
CPU: Intel i5/i7/Xeon technology or AMD equivalent.
GPU: All types (ZBrush and ZBrushCore are CPU-based software, meaning that a special video card is not required to get the best results when running the applications)
RAM: 8 GB required for working with multi-million poly models. (16+ GB preferred.)
HDD: 100 GB of free hard drive space for ZBrush and its scratch disk. (SSD drive highly recommended.)
■ Nuke
Minimum system requirements
CPU: x86-64 processor, such as Intel Core 2 Duo or later
GPU: Graphics card with at least 512 MB of video memory and driver support for OpenGL 2.0 with support for floating point textures and GLSL. An NVIDIA GPU with compute capability 2.0 (Fermi) or above. Graphics drivers capable of running CUDA 8.0 & 6.5 or above.
RAM: At least 8 GB RAM
HDD: 5 GB disk space available for caching and temporary files
Recommended system hardware
CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687Wv3 CPU
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro M6000 12GB
RAM: 128GB DDR4-2133 (8x16GB) 2CPU Registered RAM
Internal system drives 1 x HP Z Turbo Drive G2 256GB PCIe
Realtime playback is currently tested with the following internal storage accessories:
Drives 8 x Samsung SM863 960GB
Dock 2 x HP B8K60AA - 4 Bay SSD carrier
Raid card LSI Megaraid ROC 9270-8i
Raid cable 2 x Avago 05-26113-00 0.6 Meter internal cable SFF8643 To X4 SATA HDD (MINI SAS HD) Raid type RAID 5, Always write-through, with a 256k Stripe size
■ Unreal Engine 4.x
CPU: Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 770 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher
RAM: 8 GB of RAM (16 GB or more recommended)
HDD: 25 GB of free disk space for install
Maya / Zbrush / Nuke / Unreal Engine 4
I thank you in advance for any advice or guidance you can provide
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