Graphic Card for SU 2018
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Hello
I am looking for a new PC for professional use (really intensive) as Decoration Agency.
Here is the configuration proposed :
1 Intel Xeon Silver 4116 (2,1GHz, 3GHz Turbo, 12C, cache 16Mo, 9,6GT/s 2UPI, HT, 85W),
mémoire DDR4 2400MHz
1 Precision 7920 Tower Chassis
1 32Go (2x16Go) de mémoire DDR4 2666MHz RDIMM ECC 9 Aucun disque dur
1 Disque 512Go SSD SATA Classe 20 2,5"
1 Integrated Intel AHCI SATA chipset controller (8x 6.0Gb/s), SW RAID 0,1,5,10
1 Thermal Heatsink CPU0, 7920 Tower
1 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, DP, HDMI, DL-DVI (7X20T)What do you think about this proposal? The graphic card is good?
Thank you in advance for your precious help
Best regards
Guillaume
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I am by no means a computer expert, but do have a little advise for you.
I recently got an NVMe 960 Pro M.2 Hardrive. This plugs straight into your motherboard and speeds up the save / autosave and updating Layout files a lot! I would highly recommend it.
I also have the same graphics card as you and love it. Just make sure you have a decent power supply to run it. I had to upgrade to a 750w to run it as when pushed to the max it would crash the computer. Sketchup won't push it to the max, but programs like Lumion will.
Good luck, I hope this helps.
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Better get a higher clocked CPU. 3 GHz turbo is very low and SU needs a high single core speed, since it only uses one core. A 12-core processor makes absolutely no sense for SU. Only if you plan to use this as a render machine. And then a higher clockspeed would still be preferable. Is it only for SU or are you using a renderer?
There is no need to take a Xeon. An i7/i9 would be the better choice i think.
And the GTX 1080... unless you're into GPU rendering i would say you can go with a GTX 1060 or 1070. The CPU power will be more important for SU (the single core speed).
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Welcome to the forums, Guillaume! Looking forward to seeing some of your work here.
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