• Adobe After Effects

  New machine going forward options

  Posted by Sam Alessandri on October 4, 2017 at 9:37 am

  Hi all.
  New here.

  I have the option to buy some new machines for the future. I have always been a mac person but the operators want PC’s. I have put these machines together and would like a crit on them please…not price. please consider the following. Some 3d in octane. lots of 2d work in after fx. Lots of keying working off green screen. we hardly do very long renders. mainly commercials! One machine will do some Maya work every other week….if even. I would say mainly for fast working in AE itself would be prio..the rendering second???? opinions?

  option1

  Intel Core i7-7700 (3.6GHz, 8M Cache, 8x Cores, 4.2GHz Turbo) 1 MSI Z270 A PRO DDR4 USB 3.1 Motherboard
  ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 Dual OC 8GB DDR5 PCI Express Graphics Card [Black] Bitfenix Comrade Gaming Case With Clear Side Panel

  Antec High Current GAMER 850W 80+ Modular PSU 64GB DDR4 2400Mhz High Performance Gaming RAM Standard Heatsink & CPU Fan
  3 x Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD

  option2

  RYZEN Threadripper 1950X (40MB Cache, 32x Cores, 4.0GHz Turbo) 1 MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC DDR4 RYZEN Threadripper MB
  MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X Twin Frozr VI OVERCLOCKED Edition
  8GB

  NZXT H440 V2 BLACK & RED Mid Tower Silent Gaming Case Antec High Current Pro 1000W 80+ PLATINUM Fully Modular PSU [ DDR4 ] 64GB 2400MHz Quad Channel High Performance RAM Corsair H115i Extreme Performance Liquid Cooler
  3 x Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD
  3 x 1TB (3TB) 7200RPM 64MB Cache HDD

  Option 3

  ntel Core i9 7900X (4.5GHz, 25M Cache, 20x Cores) CPU
  MSI X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC LGA 2066 DDR4 Motherboard MSI GeForce GTX 1080 OVERCLOCKED 8GB GDDR5X Card [BLACK RED] NZXT S340 Mid Tower USB3.0 Case
  Antec High Current GAMER 850W 80+ Modular PSU
  [ DDR4 ] 64GB 2400MHz Quad Channel High Performance RAM Corsair H60 High Performance Liquid Cooler
  500GB SSD Ultra-Fast Upto 500MB/s+ Speed Solid State Drive
  3 x 1TB (3TB) 7200RPM 64MB Cache HDD

  regards

  Sam Alessandri replied 8 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Michael Szalapski

  October 4, 2017 at 1:58 pm

  Option 3 if you could give it one or two more SSDs. I’ve heard of some heat issues with the i9 chips though, so make sure you’re springing for better cooling.

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  Walter Soyka

  October 4, 2017 at 4:39 pm

  And if you’re serious about Octane, you might consider adding multiple GPUs. Octane’s performance scales linearly with total GPU compute power, so dual GPU renders 2x as fast as single GPU.

  Walter Soyka
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  Shawn Miller

  October 4, 2017 at 7:03 pm

  Hey Sam,

  Walter is correct, Octane’s performance does scale linearly with more GPUs. I would add that Octane only runs on CUDA, so option two is out. If you can swing it, multiple GPUs is the way to go.

  [EDIT] Sorry, just noticed that option 2 also has a GTX1080! However, I still stand by the multiple GPU comment… obviously, I need more sleep! 🙂

  Shawn
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  Sam Alessandri

  October 5, 2017 at 7:15 am

  Thanks i will follow up with IT in this,

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