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While I'm waiting for my render to complete (to my satisfaction...) I thought I'd pose the question to see what kind of hardware others are using.
Personally my PC, which I use for nearly everything, is a:
Intel i5 2500k with a Corsair H100i AIO
16GB DDR3 1600mhz
GTX 970 4GB
WD blue 500GB SSD
I have a 2 monitor set up with my main being a 1440p Dell and my second being a 1080p Benq.So what are you rocking?
P.S. ffs....
Mine isn't that good but I have an
i7 processor
12 GB RAM DDR3 1600mhz
nvidia gtx 950m
and a normal 1 TB HDD at 7200 rpm.It's also a laptop.
I'm always amazed at people rendering on a laptop, as every laptop I've ever owned heated up like a bitch when it was just working normally so whacking the cpu up to 100% for hours would scare the crap out of me. As it stands, my fairly well ventilated pc with a water cooled AIO reaches 60C at full load!
My PC was built around the 2500k on release, so it's nearly 7 years old! Albeit I've upgraded drives and swapped out the GTX460 shortly after the GTX970 came out. So that's 3 years ago now! Time flies.
Okay, I've finished rendering the piece I was doing, stopping the process after 14 hours at about 75%! Admittedly I rendered it at 4K iray as a test and the largest I'd done before this was 1080p but I noticed that my GPU wasn't maxing out but my processor was. Could my cpu be bottle-necking my system?
Yeah, my laptop does heat like crazy. And i've been doing like a couple of renders (the longest one took me 11 and a half hours) and my laptop still lives. After all the renders I did and all the noisy noisy fan noises it does.
AMD FX 8350 processor
16 gigs DDR3 ram
Nvidia gtx 1080Ti
a SSD as my c drive and a 1TB as my storage driveThe PC was built several years ago, I upgraded ram and graphics regularly my average render speed for a packed scene is about 15 to 22 minutes using Iray
AMD FX 4100 3.6Ghz Processor
32 Gigs DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GTX 980 Ti 6gig
2 SSD Drives 1TB Each
3TB external drive for storage.I have at times on a large render pushed that GTX 980 overclocking close to 8gig
but that heats the daylights out of it, so i do it in moderation. cooked the old
GTX 760 that way, smoked it, literally.if I am at w&*k i use;
i7 processor
32 GB RAM
1 x 1T SSD as main C drive
4 x 2t drives as storage
1 x AMD radeon HD7700 4GB running 2 screens
1 x AMD Radeon HD7700 2 GB running 1 screenat home I have use a laptop;
I7 processor
16 gb ram
2 gb dedicated gfx
4k screen@darklordf, ah abusing work resources eh?
@Meriel, is the reduced render times due to the increased cores you have available? (In addition to the 1080ti of course) Does anyone have a Ryzen or Threadripper build?
@Anna2123, if I'm gaming on my pc for "a while" I usually have to open a window because the room gets so hot. The fan noise is reassuring, it let's you know that the heat is being taken away. Unless the bearings are gone of course. 😛
@3DAnimenut101, I keep thinking maybe I should reinstate my cpu overclock but my processor is getting on now and I can't really afford a new setup if it dies...@EvilMonkey
Overclock with caution with aging hardware....I fried that 760 running it to hot for to long, learned the hard way.
my wallet felt the most pain..lol@evilmonkey
there is an easy trick with Daz to speed up render times, the default samples are set at 5000, try turning them down, i do between 1000-2500 and i can get 6 minute render times depending on the render.Honestly, I told my husband make it render fast. And he put it together. I do compress texture sizes before I render and remove everything not in the scene too.
@undesignated I bet you had rendered bitmaps all over the place!
For comparison, this is the set up that Jack Tomalin (regular Daz contributer) has.
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