- Aug 10, 2014
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Approximate Purchase Date: Within the month.... hopefully
Budget Range:$10,000 in total
System Usage: 3D rendering, Animation, Sculpting (Basically a at home studio minus the audio portion).
Are you buying a monitor: Yes- Just one. I have 3 already and just need a bigger middle screen. So I'm replacing the middle 1 (Main).
Parts to Upgrade: Everything except for PSU. PSU is AX1200i Corsair (that I plan on reusing)
Do you need to buy OS: No... I think? I just bought a new copy of Windows 7 so that should not be a problem.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg is the only thing I know, but then again I'm a total scrub so if prices and quality are better be my guest.
Location: 'Murica (U.S.A) Chicago,IL in other words I have a Microcenter not to far... Though I don't see them having much server related items though I could buy all my fans/coolant from there
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU and Quadro (CUDA for Maya and such would go for a FirePro otherwise). But other than that free reign is yours.
Overclocking: Maybe? Is that possible/ Safe to do to Xeons (Remember scrub here)
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Your Monitor Resolution: Main Monitor has to be at least 2560x1440 other 2 can be 1920x1080
Additional Comments: This build is going to utilize Zbrush, Maya, and a majority of Adobe products. BTW are the new Xeon processor line worth it? I mean I don't mind spending the money on new products, but all the benchmarks I've seen look like minimal improvement between the E5-2680 v2 and E5-2687 v3. And I definatly want to go Dual CPU so 2 of the v2's should be substantial. Please go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong, but I just see little to gain from rendering and such from the v3's besides a second or 2. Also I know DDR4 is a amazing new improvement but again I just want to know if its worth it, because, like any of us, if we have open RAM slots on the MOBA we fill them, because you can never have to much RAM.
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: A group of friends and I are creating a show and I need a powerhouse to render out scene, models, and just about everything video related.
Any help is appreciated, I just need people who know about this kind of thing because I don't want to spend money willy nilly, Thank You.
Sincerely,
A Polish Ginger
Budget Range:$10,000 in total
System Usage: 3D rendering, Animation, Sculpting (Basically a at home studio minus the audio portion).
Are you buying a monitor: Yes- Just one. I have 3 already and just need a bigger middle screen. So I'm replacing the middle 1 (Main).
Parts to Upgrade: Everything except for PSU. PSU is AX1200i Corsair (that I plan on reusing)
Do you need to buy OS: No... I think? I just bought a new copy of Windows 7 so that should not be a problem.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg is the only thing I know, but then again I'm a total scrub so if prices and quality are better be my guest.
Location: 'Murica (U.S.A) Chicago,IL in other words I have a Microcenter not to far... Though I don't see them having much server related items though I could buy all my fans/coolant from there
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU and Quadro (CUDA for Maya and such would go for a FirePro otherwise). But other than that free reign is yours.
Overclocking: Maybe? Is that possible/ Safe to do to Xeons (Remember scrub here)
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Your Monitor Resolution: Main Monitor has to be at least 2560x1440 other 2 can be 1920x1080
Additional Comments: This build is going to utilize Zbrush, Maya, and a majority of Adobe products. BTW are the new Xeon processor line worth it? I mean I don't mind spending the money on new products, but all the benchmarks I've seen look like minimal improvement between the E5-2680 v2 and E5-2687 v3. And I definatly want to go Dual CPU so 2 of the v2's should be substantial. Please go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong, but I just see little to gain from rendering and such from the v3's besides a second or 2. Also I know DDR4 is a amazing new improvement but again I just want to know if its worth it, because, like any of us, if we have open RAM slots on the MOBA we fill them, because you can never have to much RAM.
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: A group of friends and I are creating a show and I need a powerhouse to render out scene, models, and just about everything video related.
Any help is appreciated, I just need people who know about this kind of thing because I don't want to spend money willy nilly, Thank You.
Sincerely,
A Polish Ginger
No I'm just being picky by saying you responded to this fourm but not my message 
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