I am planning a new workstation for Houdini. And I want to know what you all think about the configuration below. I want to make sure that Houdini would benefit from everything in the configuration and I am not wasting money on something that Houdini won't benefit from.
CPU: AMD Threadripper 3990X 2.9 GHz 64-Core Processor MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI ATX sTRX4 RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 256 GB (8 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 STORAGE: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive + Western Digital Black 4 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive VGA: MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB GAMING X TRIO
I really need experts opinions before I make the decision of buying the workstation .
it's not so much about what Houdini benefits from, but what your focus is - modeling, animation, rebdering, simulation? with that set-up you're good to go with any of these, but it might be overkill for some of them.
In that case you can get away with a lower price cpu and half (probably a quarter most likely) the amount of ram. For this type of work, higher performance per cpu core is better than more cores. Are you a beginner in 3d or just Houdini? Seems like you shouldn't concern yourself with the hardware right now. Like a first time Everest climber should consider other things before the equipment. Don't sink in too much money into a workstation before you're 100% sure you'll be able to milk it and that, no one here, can tell you whether it's going to happen or not.
Yes I will take your advice, what you wrote makes sense, thanks . I have been trying to learn Houdini full time now since few months and still trying to get a hang of things in Houdini, I know it will take some time but I am not giving up .
Me and my brother are developing a game in Unreal Engine 4 and we are planning to include procedural assets in our game to make it more dynamic. Following is the link to the teaser trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNctaj683H0, [www.youtube.com] lots of work remaining still.
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