#$4800 custom workstation build

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soft yarrow
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Brand new custom order for a top of the line content creation workstation! no fancy frills here, just a goal of pure performance.
basically one of the biggest baddest, fastest PCs you can build these days. 😉
specs:

Intel core i9-13900k 24-core CPU
ARCTIC LFII 420mm AIO
Thermalright LGA1700 contact frame
Asus ProArt Z790-Creator Wifi
Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5-6600 C32
SK Hynix Platinum P41 1TB Gen 4 NVMe
SK Hynix Platinum P41 2TB Gen 4 NVMe
MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 4090 24GB
Phanteks G500A Performance ATX case
Thermaltake GF3 1200W 80+ gold Power Supply

ionic surge
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What was the build cost for this PC.

soft yarrow
ionic surge
soft yarrow
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uhhh, id have to check

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$4100~ pre tax

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@ionic surge

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$320~ tax
$250 labor
$170~ transaction fee

ionic surge
narrow glacier
soft yarrow
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nope

narrow glacier
soft yarrow
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nope

narrow glacier
soft yarrow
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i mean, you can ask what the workstation is for

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rather than giving bad unsolicited advice

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🤷

narrow glacier
# soft yarrow rather than giving bad unsolicited advice

I’m literally a photographer and videographer and would recommend MacOS anyday for video production.

But if they want to play games 50% of the time, then that’s fine with Windows, I just personally wouldn’t recommend a windows machine for video/photo work.

soft yarrow
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so you're not an expert PC builder and build PCs for a living for companies?

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so please, keep telling me how to do my job wrong

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or you can ask what the PC is for

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and learn something

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or keep being intentionally ignorant

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thats a choice too

narrow glacier
soft yarrow
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considering the m2 max is 8x slower for the workload than this specific build. i gotta say, you have great recommendations

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then there's the fact that a M2 max would likely not even be able to open certain projects due to memory limitations

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but yeah, i should have used a M2 max laptop

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so much better

narrow glacier
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You said content creation, which 99% of the time implies videos, in which a MacBook would be a smarter choice, yes.

soft yarrow
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this is why you ask questions

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and not assume

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and tell people how to do their jobs 😄

narrow glacier
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I more said what would be a better option for a video encoding/transcoding machine.

soft yarrow
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cool. thats entirely irrelevant,

narrow glacier
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I literally couldn’t care less for your professional AIO building service, sir. Well done?

soft yarrow
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so you've chosen to be intentionally ignorant

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makes sense. considering it would take a certain level of stupidity to recommend an apple laptop without any context in a PC building community.

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rather than idk.. ask like, "what kind of content creation?"

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but no, you want to look smart and you think you know everything. so you blab random useless advice.

narrow glacier
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Would still use macOS instead of windows for anything work related.

soft yarrow
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when macOS doesnt support the hardware required to do said work. its not an option

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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this is system 2 of 5

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for each of their artists

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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their primary issue with their current workstations is a lack of Vram. they're using 11700F / 32gb ram / RTX 3060 12GB

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the only logical upgrade from a 3060 12GB is a RTX 4090

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due to the 24GB of vram

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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as new 3090/3090ti cost the same as a 4090 these days

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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its also a nice 500% increase in performance within blender

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so thats a bonus

ionic surge
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Wish the 4080 had that minus 20% performance like last gen

ionic surge
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For assembly

soft yarrow
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i went with the 13900k due to blenders typical preference for fast single core in the editor, while the 7950x is a bit faster for CPU based rendering. also with the side work on adobe suite, as the 13900k typically outperforms the 7950x in most of those tasks

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but yeah, due to the need of the Vram, i thought it was funny some random moron was saying i should have gotten an apple laptop and it would have been better

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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as far as i can tell (cause no one actually uses mac for modeling and rendering in blender) the M2 max is close, but noticeably slower than a RTX 3060 12gb

ionic surge
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Power efficiency mac but when it comes to saving time you can’t go wrong with a top tier cpu and 4090

soft yarrow
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well the M2 max doesnt have 24GB of Vram so...

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and their workload is already rather close to that

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so they have reached out asking me to configure and build them a dedicated rendering workstation that can handle the workload

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so thats been fun

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pretty much got it all figured out

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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i do that to the best of my abilities with all of the commission builds i get

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a lot of the other stuff i post is refurbished / used systems, so i work with what i can personally find a good deal on, that i know i can make money

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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the owner of the company is working out with his finances to figure out if he's going to be able to go with a single or dual GPU system to start

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which is a $7000~ difference

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lol

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not cheap

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but, the best of the best on the market for the workload

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(its basically just a 4090 but with 48GB of Vram, more too it, but yeah, sums it up)

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plan is a 64 core TR pro 5995WX
512GB of memory
and one or two of these GPUs

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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around $19500 / $26500 depending on the configuration

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for the full system

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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no

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SLI is for gaming

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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no they also dont support NVlink unfortunately

ionic surge
soft yarrow
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they can still work together depending on the program, and blender GPU rendering scales nearly perfectly on multi GPU

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the downside of no NVlink is no shared pool of Vram

ionic surge
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But when used for making money the faster the system the better

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