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Recommendation for a Xeon CPU
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Good question, but I don't know at the moment, though they are asking for a Geforce Titan $1000+ GPU, hmm. Also from the few I've read about Architecture rendering, I see they rely mostly on multiple GPU power instead of CPU.
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Xeons are about the same as i7 but cost much more. There are no additional features except Registered ECC memory support which is not really important and is not supported on some ( if not most ) desktop motherboards. Xeon is also slower than i7 in the same price.
I wonder why someone want Xeon but doesn't think about Quadro graphics. Titan is desktop graphics card but probably still much faster than it's required. GTX980Ti is about to be released so if software can use multi gpu config then maybe 2 of them ( or GTX980 ) will be better idea and a cheaper CPU to balance costs.
All depends for what it will be used as spending money on theoretically fast hardware doesn't mean it will actually help in work. Software has to support all hardware features to bring any profit.
I wonder why someone want Xeon but doesn't think about Quadro graphics. Titan is desktop graphics card but probably still much faster than it's required. GTX980Ti is about to be released so if software can use multi gpu config then maybe 2 of them ( or GTX980 ) will be better idea and a cheaper CPU to balance costs.
All depends for what it will be used as spending money on theoretically fast hardware doesn't mean it will actually help in work. Software has to support all hardware features to bring any profit.
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Definitely want to stick to nVidia here, as 3ds Max takes advantage of CUDA.
V-Ray can also run CUDA, and they've tested it on many GeForce GPU's.
Make sure they see this:
http://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VRAY3/GPU+Rendering#
I see no reason for a Quadro here since, a 980 would be awesome.
Even while using the GPU though, there's a lot of CPU rendering still happening.
That said, this would be my suggestion since I don't know a budget:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zDjk3C
V-Ray can also run CUDA, and they've tested it on many GeForce GPU's.
Make sure they see this:
http://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VRAY3/GPU+Rendering#
I see no reason for a Quadro here since, a 980 would be awesome.
Even while using the GPU though, there's a lot of CPU rendering still happening.
That said, this would be my suggestion since I don't know a budget:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zDjk3C
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Okay thanks! I talked to them and got them to go Pentium instead of Xeon, but they won't let go of having a Titan video card, I don't know why. Seems they have more budget than what I thought, so I think maybe we can double the RAM to 64GB, add at least an 850w PSU, and if they want their Titan, go with a Titan Black if I can find one. I will see what happens, maybe they are going over their heads on this machine.
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Just making sure
There are times I would suggest a Xeon, but this isn't one.
It'd just be paying more for a processor with features that won't get used.
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