Houdini gpu rendering upgrade#

For now I filled half of them totalling 64GB of RAM. It’s got 8 RAM slots which when fitted with 16GB memory modules can be filled to 128GB of RAM. Four PCIe x16 sots spaced apart two slots can accommodate four full grown GPUs – just what I wanted. The mainboard I chose was mainly based on its mechanical layout.

Houdini gpu rendering upgrade#

Went with the 1920x as it was only 90€ more expensive than the slower 1900x yet reasonably priced in order to not cause bad headaches should I decide to upgrade to a 2950x in the future. So I opted for an AMD CPU and mainboard here. While during the past years Intel seemed to have an edge ove AMD when it came to multithreading performance, AMD seems to finally have caught up with their new Threadrippers (19xx and second gen 29xx) at a very attractive price point. Also I was trying to hit something like an optimal price/performance ratio.

I went mostly with components I’d built machines out of previously. PSU: /products/power-supplies/premium/platimax-1700w/Įxternal DVD: lg.com/de/brenner-laufwerke/lg-GP57EB40 Mainboard: msi.com/Motherboard/X399-GAMING-PRO-CARBON-AC.htmlĬase: /home/product/cases/define-series/define-xl-r2-black-pearlĬooler: noctua.at/en/products/cpu-cooler-retail/nh-u14s-tr4-sp3 – power supply with ample headroom for power hungry hardwareĬPU: amd.com/de/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1920x – decent CPU speed for sims / general Houdini madness These were the main things I expected from it: So instead I opted to build a second, newer machine. However I’m a bit hesitant to schlepp my dear Entagma-computer out to clients. And get asked to bring my own workstation to clients more frequently. Enjoy the resulting chaos.Ī word of warning – if you decide to build a PC yourself you do so at your own risk. It finally happened – here is the long feared hardware episode you’ve not been waiting for! As Mo recently started freelancing, he decided he’d need a new computer.