Hey everyone, including @will.gibbons.
If i can convince my company to build me a machine dedicated to rendering efficiently, what would you recommend? (I can do the assembly and OS installation.)
my current pc is a i7-9700K, 64Gb of ram, 3090. I find it slow for what i need… @will.gibbons would love to show you what i do and perhaps pay you for a consult. PM me!
Thanks everyone
If you don’t need more than 24GB of VRAM just stick four 4090s in a mainboard with some nice custom loop water cooling. That is, if you render using GPU.
But rendering is/feels always too slow since it occupies a machine even with a dedicated one you would just send more render jobs and still have to wait till previous one is finished. In the end it also depends on what you’re rendering.
Hi,
In my experience, most companies down’t actually want their employees to build workstations. They’d rather have a professional company do it, so there’s an actual warranty if things go bad.
I use and recommend PCs from Puget Systems. They’ve got unrivaled customer service.
While GPU rendering is getting better, I still find sometimes I need to render in CPU mode in KeyShot depending on the scene. So, while you can have a PC that’s mostly GPU rendering-based, I would still opt for a CPU with more threads.
Here’s their website: Puget Systems
thanks Will, very familiar with Puget. The previous two workstations i’ve built and we’re small enough that the company is happy to build by hand.
That’s cool! If that’s still the case, then I’d say you can’t go wrong with one or two 4090 GPUs… and then whatever CPU you think you have budget left over for after that. Like @oscar.rottink mentioned, unless you need a lot of VRAM, no reason to go with Nvidia A series cards. Extra GPUs will help render faster in KeyShot but you can’t pool the Vram, so you’re limited to whatever one card holds.
That said, a machine with more than one 4090 will probably get quite hot and I’ve not got the experience to suggest how to cool something like that short of a custom water loop… which scares me.
I wouldn’t dare building a custom water loop machine myself but man, they can look pretty 
Check EKWB Facebook group - you will see a lot of damn cool-looking loops )
By the way, they offer a good range of components for builders. I’m using their AIO product and thinking about building a custom loop once.
