Shovuc
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:31 PM |
| For a workstation of course. So I imagine the requirements are a bit less if I'm not gaming on both screens. |
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:32 PM |
are you telling me your getting a pc to play games
if u do then ily |
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:33 PM |
| forgot, im on my alt, guess who i am |
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Shovuc
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:33 PM |
@ruby
Nope. I'm getting a workstation.
I could play games on it if I wanted to, but primarily it's a workstation for animation. |
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PoniSpai
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:33 PM |
If not gaming on both screens, 2GB is a safe and secure number.
If gaming on both, two is really cutting it, 3 is nice. |
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Shovuc
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:41 PM |
It depends.
If you are doing something computationally heavy (like playing a game, workstation rendering) on both screens then 3GB/4GB would be nice.
If its just one screen you will probably get by with just 2GB, but 3GB would probably be nice. |
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PoniSpai
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:42 PM |
@Cool I get by with 2GB without full utilization.
Generally, you will not be rendering AND playing, especially with Shovuc. |
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:43 PM |
| I tend to have 2 screens. One for playing games and the other for skype/recording. (two £100 monitors) |
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Shovuc
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:48 PM |
@ruby
I've guessed others alts before; I might have a gift or something. I don't know. |
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fdfxd
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:55 PM |
| A workstation? Protip: MAKE SURE YOUR GPU IS NVIDIA! IT IS VITAL IF YOU ARE GOING TO THE 3D AREA(Because of Cuda.)! AMD SUCKS IN THAT AREA! or else you won't be able to use things like voxel sculpting and octane. |
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Shovuc
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| 30 Mar 2014 12:57 PM |
@fdxd
I know. I plan on either using a GTX 750 ti or GTX 760. |
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:00 PM |
Does the 750ti do dual screens?
On a review, the person said it didn't. |
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fdfxd
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:01 PM |
| I was hoping for you to get intel xeon and quadro. Since you are building for serious "Business " rather than playing video games. |
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Shovuc
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:12 PM |
@fdxd
I plan on a Xeon/GTX 750 ti (or 760) combination. |
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:15 PM |
First off, you dont have to get something from NVIDIA in order to use workstation apps. There is also AMD FirePro which uses OpenCL that is getting more popular than NVIDIA's proprietary CUDA.
He doesn't really need a Xeon. Those are really for servers or large supercomputer clusters.
Getting a Quadro only really makes sense if he is doing this professionally and he can't afford to have errors and single precision. A consumer GPU is good enough for amateurs. |
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fdfxd
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:18 PM |
@coolman Tell that to Octane |
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PoniSpai
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:23 PM |
@Coolman Low end Xeons are actually great! You get the performance of an i7, without onboard video. It has hyperthreading and all that fun stuff, lots of power, but again, cheaper. |
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fdfxd
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:25 PM |
@Cool Mari and Octane won't work on my AMD GPU powered PC(Which by the way does have open cl) because when I open them they say "Y U NO USE CUDA! I NO START!" jk they say "CUDA is required to run this application." |
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:26 PM |
| Some apps are CUDA only, but not all are. |
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PoniSpai
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:29 PM |
If you have issues with Cuda/Open CL, you do know you can run two seperate GPUs.
You can have an Nvidia GTX 780, and an AMD R9 280x. By changing settings, you can select a preferred GPU to run your different tasks. This of course is an example, but you can do it. |
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fdfxd
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:31 PM |
| But the thing is, Amd is a terrible workstation GPU. Why use it at all? Just get a decent Nvidia card. |
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PoniSpai
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| 30 Mar 2014 01:48 PM |
@Fd OPEN CL is an AMD based operation.
This means AMD will perform better on things that use OpenCL as their primary coding structure. |
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