Hello! I’m looking for some recommendations on building a professional workstation for motion graphics and 3d rendering. I will be using this to create HD - 4K animations that will be rendered from Cinema 4D with Redshift and composited in After Effects. I have an idea of what I want but am always open to advice. My biggest priorities are performance and reliability. It will be for work so I need it to operate as reliably as possible. My current consideration is:
ASRock WRX80 Creator 2.0
AMD Threadripper PRO 5965WX 3.8GHz 24 core
How worth it is increasing to the 32core?
128 - 256gb of ECC ram
Looking for recommendations here
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
Considering founders or Gigabyte depending on what I can find available
2x 2TB Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus PCI-E Gen4 M.2 SSD (OS and Storage) 1x 1TB Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD (for caching)
Case Options
Looking for something understated and professional with good airflow and not too noisy.
Fractal Design Define 7 or Define 7 XL
Fractal Design North
Super Flower Leadex Platinum 1200W PSU
Noctua NH-UI4S TR4-SP3 CPU Cooler
Full set of Noctua PWM Case Fans
Is there anything about this build that seems unbalanced or overkill? I definitely want to take full advantage of the RTX 4090 for 3d rendering as that will be the bulk of its use. If anyone has any recommendations it would be greatly appreciated.
There is definitely an increase in performance in Cinema 4D when using 32c vs 24c. From Cinebench results around 20%+. Which noctua cooler has the double fan?
Would either of these be better or worse?
NH-U9 TR4-SP3 # be quiet! Dark Rock Pro TR4, BK023
As long as it’s a 16 bit or 32 bit math, 4090 is the way to go, the hopper card is really expensive if they need unlocked 64 bit math
They don’t want you getting away with getting compute by just paying the Quadro tax. They want you to pay the Tesla tax, which is even more expensive (and you wonder why Nvidia doesn’t care about gamers when they sell the exact same chips for 5 figures)
I have the same mobo and cpu and do mostly AE and C4d/Redshift on it. Glad to see someone else that thinks the same way I do!! Its been very solid for 5 months. You will want a 1600w psu, between the extra oomf the pbo will require and the 3000 and especially the 4000 rtx cards have 2x power spikes (that they dont like to talk about) they’ll tank your system on a render randomly because your PSU cant keep up. I have 3 gpus, non of them 4000s, and I hit power issues from time to time with a 1600w psu.
Get 8 dimms of RAM at once, check the manual on the website, they list part numbers for tested and approved RAM and you can sort by speed.
Things to note…
The cpu slot is rotated 90 degrees so the air coolers dont face the back and front of the mobo.
You cant control fan speed via bios or software, you need to use the IPMI web interface that is beyond my comprehension. Good luck with your fan settings.
PBO enabled by default with stock settings and it works great for me. My cpu clocks around 4.5GHz.
I used the silverstone icegem 360 and it kept the cpu under 72c under full load until it died last night, but not sure if that was actually my fault or not yet. I ordered another one regardless.
Overall its a beast, time to render in c4d is super fast compared to my old i7 machine. honestly the biggest issue I’m facing is the shear heat output is a little out of control. 12v comp fans arent really enough when its raging at full tilt.
Good luck!
I think it’s well worth the watch, or at least a quick scan through their graphs. They use a 13900K for testing, but heat is heat.
Personally, based on their testing along with Gamer Nexus’s ( The Champ: $41 Thermalright Peerless Assassin CPU Cooler Review & Benchmarks - YouTube ), I am planning on grabbing the Peerless Assassin unless I end up delaying my new workstation/server build unit Q4. Because in Quarter 4, that’s when Noctua pushed back their refresh of their coolers.
Regardless, hope your happy whatever it is you choose to build with.
via the Level1Techs YouTube channel. The video titled
Threadripper 5000 is hErE!!
This is actually a perfect build for what im wanting. Do you think this same cooler / fan arrangement would work given Pugets benchmarking? I cant find a founders edition 4090 anywhere for the backblower style card so im curious if this same type of cooling solution wold work for a triple fan card.
