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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
What Glen is doing is very specialized.
AMD chips, I don't care which they are, do not work as well.
The best CPU for this kind of work is actually an i7 8700.
This is not the type of stuff where raw performance numbers translate to actual real world performance.
nVIdia CUDA 2 GPUS are a must and one would think a $4,000 Tesla V100 would blow away the GTX 1080's he has in there and in nearly every function required it does, exxxcccceeeeptttt for one. The Tesla is a pig at depth map calculations and it's poor performance on that more than erases any gains in the other nodes of the processing pipe. It ends up being slower at 4x's the price.
Like a Top Fuel Rail it will beat everything to the other end of the track, but take it to a track with turns, not gonna do very well.
Thats a very capable rig he has there for what he needs to do.
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This is all fascinating, before this build, I had no idea someone would need so much power out of a rig.
I just want to be perfectly clear, I am not here arguing or bashing anything, I am reading and learning. If I asked a question or made a suggestion, I was just trying to understand what was going on and hoping I could be helpful with my limited knowledge.
I have built a couple of machines in the past, I push my kids to always build theirs. My 16 year old wants a gaming rig, I told him he has to build it. I prefer them to learn how it all works together over just buying a built box, that will always have corners cut. The gaming rig my 16 y/o is building cost about $850 and will out perform machines that cost 2X if you bought a complete one.
Some deal with my older son when he wanted a rig. He now builds machines for all his friends.
I want to build a new one now, except I really like having laptops as my processing needs are no where near what Glen is doing.
My only suggestion would be to explore liquid cooling for the CPU. My older son experimented with it and said hands down, the liquid cooler is way more efficient.