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    Posted: 07 Dec 2013 at 6:36am
Budget 12.000 more or less (no monitor or accesories)

Hello everyone, I already have a computer who purchase from digital Storm, and was amazing.
Mostly that computer was designed to use for gaming. but right now I began to use it with 3d Programs and some video editing.
When I tried to use rendering programs like Octane Render (GPU based) I notice that my computer cripple.
Also I will use programs like Carrara and Cinema to work with.
Because of that I what to get a powerful workstation, but I have dudes which is best for that (16 cores, 24 cores etc)
Also I heard that the new titans (I was thinking 3 of them) work great with Octane, and are best in some ways compared with Quadros.
So if you could advice what to get should be wonderful

Thanks

Pablo

here is my previous computer

  Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Black OPS Aventum Exterior Finish:
- Standard Factory Finish Trim Accents: - Not Available
Processor: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 3960X 3.3GHz (Six-Core) (Extreme
Performance)
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage IV Extreme X79 (Intel X79 Chipset) (Features USB
3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s) System Memory: 32GB DDR3 2133MHz Digital Storm Certified
Performance Series (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested) Power Supply: 1200W
Corsair Pro Platinum Series with Corsair Link (CP-9020008-NA) (Quad SLI
Compatible) Expansion Bay: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System:
1x (480GB Solid State (By: Intel) (Model: 520 Series) Set 1 Raid Options: -
No Thanks Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (1TB Western Digital Caviar
(7200 RPM) (Model: Black Edition) Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: 1x (3TB
Western Digital/Seagate/Hitachi/
Samsung (7200 RPM) (SATA 6Gbps) Optical
Drive 1: Blu-Ray Player/DVD Writer (Play Blu-Ray and Burn DVDs) (Slim Slot
Loading Edition) Optical Drive 2: - Not Available Internet Access: High
Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card(s): 2x SLI Quad SLI (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4GB (Includes PhysX)
Add-on Card: USB 3.0 4-Port PCI Express Card Sound Card: Creative Labs X-Fi
Titanium HD 24-bit 96KHz 7.1 Extreme Cooling: Digital Storm Aventum Liquid
Cooling System: CPU + Video Cards + Chipset
H20 Tube Color: Red Tubing with High-Performance Fluid (UV Lighting
Reactive) Chassis Airflow: Digital Storm Aventum Automatic Response to
Excess-Heat System (ARES) Internal Lighting: Digital Storm Aventum RGB LED
Lighting System
Enhancements: Digital Storm Aventum Integrated Side Panel Display Module
Chassis Mods: - No Thanks Noise Reduction: - No Thanks
LaserMark: - No Thanks <b></b>
CPU Boost: Stage 2: Overclock CPU 4.5GHz to 4.8GHz (Requires
Pro/Deluxe/Sabertooth Motherboard) Graphics Boost: Yes, Overclock the video
card(s) as much as possible with complete stability Memory Boost: - No
Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory OS Boost: - No Thanks, Please do
not tweak the services on the operating system Windows OS: Microsoft Windows
7 Ultimate (64-Bit Edition) Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit
(Bundled with Windows 7 CD) Virus Protection: - No Thanks
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I'm not familiar with either of those programs. I would check their user forums and/or contact them directly to find out the best combination of hardware.
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Thanks you so much !!!!
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From what little I've read on Octane Render, it is primarily a gpu hog, using your video cards for most if not all of the 3D rendering.  The cpu is used mainly for scene loading.  If I'm wrong then let us know.
 
I can't say if added cpu cores would help, but going to 3x Titan would give you a big boost in rendering power over your 2x gtx 690.  Although the gtx 690s, that you have ,actually have more CUDA cores than a Titan and faster textures, they need the onboard sli of 690 gpu to do it.  Titan , single gpu card, is only a bit slower in textures and about 10% less CUDA cores but its vram of 6gb  is 3x the 690's true 2gb vram.  Although the 690 is advertised as a 4gb card, sli doesn't stack and the true vram is the amount of the least gpu, which is 2gb on the dual gpu gtx 690.   
 
I could be wrong, but I think your biggest bottleneck is the limited vram on the cards.
 
Hope this helps and good luck. Big%20Smile
 
 
 
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Thanks for your advice, yes that really helps. I believe that could be part of the solution. I don't know also when I use Video Editing Programs like Adobe After effect or similar more processing cores should help.
I had the chance to use Luxrender for some renders, I guess this program take advantage of the power of your cores Smile
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You mentioned 16/32 core Xeon cpu and my only other thought is that the Xeon cpu is a locked processor, meaning no overclock, unless that recently changed. That leaves you with about 3.4 ghz cpu vs 4.6ghz plus with i7 , 6- core chips. The Xeon will Turbo to 4.0 but that's only on a single core/ thread while oc is across all cores with i7. I guess your research and experience would have to decide if more cores or a higher core speed is the most beneficial. I would think the higher clock speed with fewer cores would work better but that's just a guess.

Good luck and let us know.
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