Buying a 3D workstation

[suchyy]

It is my first post here, so hello everyone!
I hope it is fine if I write in English? Mijn Nederlands is heel slecht

At the company I work for we are considering buying a workstation for 3D work that would work well with Octane renderer. Octane uses GPU power to render, so the computer would ideally have multiple GPUs.

I am not yet sure what specification we would go for, but it seems that a recommended build on Octane forums seems to be an i7 CPU with lots of ram and most importantly, 3 or 4 GPU's (Geforce 1080 / Titan)

If I was buying this for myself I would do some reading, order parts in the cheapest place and put them together myself

The company way would be to order a workstation from HP/Dell, but from what I see they don't really do multiple GPU's, and instead they put Xeon CPU's and Quadro GPU's, which will simply be much slower.

So I am looking for something in-between, could you recommend a company in NL that would build a computer for us according to the provided specification and offer a warranty?

Cheers!

[maratropa]

Maar je begrijpt het wel toch?

DEll/Hp is hiervoor bad value idd, ze pushen xeons en pro gpu's met een slechte value voor dit (octane) doel. Waarschijnlijk allemaal gedoe om niet gecertificeerde titan's of 1080's in een precision te willen etc..

Quadro's (bijv m6000's) zijn niet echt trager (dan bijv titan's) maar vooral heel veel duurder.

Als je niet zelf wilt bouwen en de garantie goed wilt regelen dan kun je idd beter met een custom workstation bouwer gaan praten, maqina.nl of ikbenstil.nl bijv.

[ Voor 25% gewijzigd door maratropa op 01-12-2016 16:42 ]

[MAX3400]

Your last paragraphs sound weird; as a business I can buy much more expensive GPU's both from Dell and HP like the Nvidia GRID cards. Depending on the business-case I would/can assume a 20K CPU-array can been seen as "obsoletely expensive" yet they are available.

That said, one is supposed to have more complete topicstart; at least a shopping-list according to DAA beleid a budget and some information about what companies you have already contacted/researched.

What did your Dell-representative offer you? They also sell high-end GPU's like the 10x0 series in their Alienware-series so that card is present in their factories.

[ Voor 14% gewijzigd door MAX3400 op 01-12-2016 13:41 ]

[Spike_wolf]

GFX -> DAA