AMD Ryzen, Intel i7 or Dual Xeon Workstation as a new rig?

[Lars Vader]

2.4 k euro for a Ryzen system sounds a bit too much. Also you might hit the ceiling with only 32 gb of RAM very fast.

Thanks for the advice, Freakaz.
I was wondering about the prices, too. Seems to be pretty expensive here in Germany in comparison to the States and other countries. I couldn't find one offer that was significantly cheaper than the Intel ones. I'm really stuck...

[Ryuu]

How much does it cost in Germany? Here in Czech Republic, the 1800X is priced around 455 EUR (without VAT).

[Lars Vader]

How much does it cost in Germany? Here in Czech Republic, the 1800X is priced around 455 EUR (without VAT).

559,- EUR. https://www.alternate.de/html/product/1333130

[Freakaz]

559 is not the worst price, as we have it selling for 580 eu. The biggest money eater here is the 1080 TI.

[Lars Vader]

559 is not the worst price, as we have it selling for 580 eu. The biggest money eater here is the 1080 TI.

Still 100 bucks more than the 6800K here, and I don't know if it's worth it. And yeah, the 1080Ti is really expensive. But a good friend of mine strongly recommended it to me. 

[TomKle]

Hey Kyanu,

why not buy the 1700 and overlocking it a bit. The performance difference between the Ryzens is so little but the price is so much higher. So why not overlocking the 1700 to 4ghz. You will need a decent watercooling system but thats no problem.

Alternative:
My build is a dual xeon E5-2690 V1 setup. with a cinebench score of over 2000 and the whole system only costs me about 1200€.

Grüße, Tom

[Lars Vader]

Hey Kyanu,

why not buy the 1700 and overlocking it a bit. The performance difference between the Ryzens is so little but the price is so much higher. So why not overlocking the 1700 to 4ghz. You will need a decent watercooling system but thats no problem.

Alternative:
My build is a dual xeon E5-2690 V1 setup. with a cinebench score of over 2000 and the whole system only costs me about 1200€.

Grüße, Tom

Dear Tom,

thank you very much for your recommendation. I was thinking about the 1700X as well for the same reasons you already mentioned. I've seen a rig online built with the 1700X that could edit 4K videos and cost under 1000 $. But unfortunately I don't feel technically expertised enough to order the parts and build a PC on my own let alone overclocking the CPU.

I ordered a "ready to go" PC, but that was with 32Gigs of Memory and a GTX 1080 somehow slower than my rMBP (mid 2015). So I sent it back when the support couldn't give any solution to that problem. Your build sounds really intriguing since the PC I ordered cost way more.

A second solution is running C4D on my rMBP and invest in a node?

Viele Grüße zurück,

Lars 

[pedroarq3822]

Hey Kyanu,

why not buy the 1700 and overlocking it a bit. The performance difference between the Ryzens is so little but the price is so much higher. So why not overlocking the 1700 to 4ghz. You will need a decent watercooling system but thats no problem.

Alternative:
My build is a dual xeon E5-2690 V1 setup. with a cinebench score of over 2000 and the whole system only costs me about 1200€.

Grüße, Tom

Hello Tom

Where did you buy the parts (cpu)?

[robertgalp]

The Core i7-7700K is Intel’s flagship Kaby Lake based CPU which is reported to have the same IPC as its predecessor, Skylake. Comparing the 7700K and 6700K shows that both average effective speed and peak overclocked speed are up by 7%. Most of the increase in average effective speed is explained by the 5% boost in base clocks from 4.0 to 4.2 GHz. The improved peak lab speed is attributable to a combination of better overclocking capacity and improvements in Intel’s speedshift technology which make the 7700K slightly more responsive.

The Ryzen 7 1800X is AMD's flagship Ryzen CPU. Clocked at 3.6 GHz with a turbo frequency of 4.0 GHz (stock) this chip offers a staggering level of multi-core performance. Comparing the 1800X with the Intel i7-6850K shows that the 1800X delivers 25% more multi-core throughput than its more expensive counterpart.