Hi. I have 100k and want to invest them on a powerful workstation for my cg v-ray cpu-based rendering needs.
I want to ask you 2 questions:
1) Can you suggest me a good 8-socket motherboard for my 8 24-core Intel Xeons E7-8890 v4?
2) Does a 4 way SLI for 4 nvidias 1080 exist? or should I wait for the drivers?
anyone?
>>55409903
Call Dell.
>>55409603
>Hi I'm a fucking moron and I want attention on the Internet
>>>/v/
>>55409603
>8 24-core Intel Xeons
Are you going to profit from it? Just curious, spending such money on it seems reasonable if profit
>>55409928
I'm going to provide rendering services for my clients
>>55409963
If that is the case then you should like previous poster said, call dell or HP in that case... can also recommend puget systems, currently we are looking into buying a system for CFD simulations and we are evaluating different companies to buy from for scientific computations, so yea, consider those companies
>>55409603
8 socket systems don't really exist anymore, unless you go to Unisys or something.
Last 8 socket system was the DL980G7.
>>55409603
Call Pixar.
Can't you do multiple dual or quad cpu systems with network rendering? (why not?)
At that price point definitely go with a reputable manufacturer instead of piecing it together yourself. There's a reason why expensive things have a proper warranty on them. You wouldn't go buying a brand new Porsche with no warranty, so why do the same for another 100k purchase.
>>55410313
>network rendering
>why not
slow as fuggg. Even 10GbE is only 1250MB/s theoretical bandwidth. It's nothing compared to the bandwidth on a 8 socket motherboard.
>>55410364
>individual parts have no waranty
>not using work station graphics cards
Why
>>55409926
>this is how you answer someone who needs professional advice
Keep up the good work, /g/
>>55410480
>calls intel's RMA
>"uh, hello, my CPU just shitted itsfel, I want a new one
>"alright, how that happened"
>"not sure, I'm using this workstation handmade by myself."
>"uh, ok, are you experienced with this kind of work?"
>"Actually no, but I took some advices from anonymous people in a taiwanese cartoon worship website, so it should be working"
>>55410007
Why even consider HP on the same level as Dell? I mean, yes HP's enterprise equipment is much greater in quality than their consumer shit but I've never seen them shine better than Dell.
>>55410610
>goes to /g/ for professional advice
There's your problem.
>>55410409
Uh the vray DR shouldn't have that much of a negative impact on performance. Otherwise increase bucket size
>>55410790
that reminds me, was interested in buying an hp elitebook, what's the best one for ~$350?
what do you think of this one?
https://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-7088B-TR4FT.cfm
>>55410559
This, man take the Quadro or Tesla
>nvidia for compute
Let alone for multi gpu
>>55411186
Find out what you want in a laptop and shop. Don't limit yourself to one product line.
