art3mis Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 (edited) This is what I am building primarilly for Houdini work CPU - Intel i7 6900k MOTHERBOARD - Asus X99 A-2 MEMORY - 32GB Vengeance LP6 DDR4 GPU - Nvidia Titan XP COOLING - EKWB Predator 360 POWER - EVGA 1000W Platinum CASE - Fractal Design Define S My goal is to upgrade to dual Titan XP's with water blocks (when I can afford it) . Will 32GB RAM be enough? Edited September 14, 2016 by eco_bach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malexander Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Honestly, I'd trim back to a GTX 1080 and use the extra $$ to buy 64GB. Dual 1080s would work just as well as dual Titans, if you need that sort of thing. Houdini can only use 1 GPU for rendering and 1 for Compute, so even 1080 (rendering) + Titan (compute) would work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Quote Houdini can only use 1 GPU for rendering What!? Houdini can use the GPU for rendering. When did that happen? How do I enable GPU rendering for Mantra? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malexander Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Viewport rendering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art3mis Posted September 15, 2016 Author Share Posted September 15, 2016 Focusing on GPU rendering locally and probably cloud rendering for most Mantra stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn_kearney Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 (edited) From what I've seen from the benchmarks OpenCL performance on the 1070 is similar to the 1080 and a significantly lower price. Edited September 24, 2016 by shawn_kearney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art3mis Posted September 24, 2016 Author Share Posted September 24, 2016 Op here. Ended up breaking the bank for a Titan XP. With slight overclocking am getting almost twice the performance of a GTX1080, but boy do I need water cooling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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