Computer upgrade, Advice wanted

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prjcole

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Hope this is in the right place.
I curranty have the following.

ASUS X99 AII LGA 2011-3 socket
Intel 14 core E5 2690 v4 cpu ( 40 pcie lanes )
32gb DDR4 3200 memory quad channel, I can boost to 128GB
MSI GTX 1080 8gb graphics
Crucial P3 2TB 3500 NVME
Crucial P3 1TB 3500 NVME
2x 1TB SSD 2.5
Cooling is Corsair H115i 280mm AIO

PI runs very nicely indeed, However it's starting to show it's age. I'm thinking of going AMD AM5

ASUS/MSI X670E AM5
Ryzen 9 7900 12 core ( 65 watts )
or
Ryzen 9 7950X ( 170 watts )

64gb DDR5 5200 as recommended by AMD in Dual channel
Crucial P3 2TB 6000 NVME
Plus the 2 NVME I have with the 2 SSD drives
Cooling is Corsair H150i 360mm AIO
Graphics card doesn't have to be outlandish maybe a 12gb RTX3060

Any comments suggestions will be appreciated
 
prjcole said:
Hope this is in the right place.
I curranty have the following.

ASUS X99 AII LGA 2011-3 socket
Intel 14 core E5 2690 v4 cpu ( 40 pcie lanes )
32gb DDR4 3200 memory quad channel, I can boost to 128GB
MSI GTX 1080 8gb graphics
Crucial P3 2TB 3500 NVME
Crucial P3 1TB 3500 NVME
2x 1TB SSD 2.5
Cooling is Corsair H115i 280mm AIO

PI runs very nicely indeed, However it's starting to show it's age. I'm thinking of going AMD AM5

ASUS/MSI X670E AM5
Ryzen 9 7900 12 core ( 65 watts )
or
Ryzen 9 7950X ( 170 watts )

64gb DDR5 5200 as recommended by AMD in Dual channel
Crucial P3 2TB 6000 NVME
Plus the 2 NVME I have with the 2 SSD drives
Cooling is Corsair H150i 360mm AIO
Graphics card doesn't have to be outlandish maybe a 12gb RTX3060

Any comments suggestions will be appreciated
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I'd go with 128GB RAM.
 
Hi Chris.
128GB is the way to go. Unfortunately I'm experiencing motherboard issues with computer. So will have to rebuild.
Shame really as it's been brilliant, especially having all those pcie lanes.
 
Turn off any overclock features in the Bios, seems Asus ships the motherboards already overclocked.

Cheers
Tom
 
For what's its worth, I just bought:
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 (includes cooler)
MSI - MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI
G.Skill - Trident Z5 Neo 2 x 32GB, 6000 MHz, RAM DDR5 (F5-6000J3040G32GX2-TZ5N) (64 GB total)
NVIDIA/Gigabte - GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming OC LHR (12 GB)
WD Black SN850X M2 2280 - 2TB (without heat sink)
Be Quiet - Silent Base 802 Black
Be Quiet - Straight Power 12 850WStraight Power 12 850W 80+ Platinum Mod

The PixInsight Benchmark result is about 30'000

It is not the fastest possible machine, but it is very quiet and power efficient. As I use ti only parttime for astrophoto and do not play games, it suits my needs. The graphic card is very cost effective to execute the current (and likely the near future) AI processes.

Memory can be increased to 128GB (at some cost of performance) and 2 more M2 drive can be added (and plenty fo SATA drives if you want).

I do not overclock and I happily trade 10% of performance for additional reliabilityé lower power and quieter machine.

-- bitli
 
tom886 said:
Turn off any overclock features in the Bios, seems Asus ships the motherboards already overclocked.

Cheers
Tom
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Hi Tom.
The E5 chip isn't overclocked, it runs at 2.6Ghz. The board is about 9 years old and the years of usb plugs being swapped in and out has taken it's toll.
When i built it, I was running an i7 6850k which was a 6 core beast at the time. How things have changed (y)
 
bitli said:
For what's its worth, I just bought:
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 (includes cooler)
MSI - MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI
G.Skill - Trident Z5 Neo 2 x 32GB, 6000 MHz, RAM DDR5 (F5-6000J3040G32GX2-TZ5N) (64 GB total)
NVIDIA/Gigabte - GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming OC LHR (12 GB)
WD Black SN850X M2 2280 - 2TB (without heat sink)
Be Quiet - Silent Base 802 Black
Be Quiet - Straight Power 12 850WStraight Power 12 850W 80+ Platinum Mod

The PixInsight Benchmark result is about 30'000

It is not the fastest possible machine, but it is very quiet and power efficient. As I use ti only parttime for astrophoto and do not play games, it suits my needs. The graphic card is very cost effective to execute the current (and likely the near future) AI processes.

Memory can be increased to 128GB (at some cost of performance) and 2 more M2 drive can be added (and plenty fo SATA drives if you want).

I do not overclock and I happily trade 10% of performance for additional reliabilityé lower power and quieter machine.

-- bitli
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Hi Bitli
That's a very nice spec machine. Thanks for sharing it.
I'm looking at almost the same build. Erring on the side of the 16 core 9 7950x at the moment.
The X~E boards have 12 pcie lanes on them where the B have 8.
I'm sure the 20 useable from the chip and the 12 from M/B are together more than enough, I'm playing with 48 at the moment.

If it wasn't for the usb issues I would swap out the 14 core for a 22 core, They are very cheap at the moment. Sling in another 64GB memory and another 3 NVME drives using one of the 16 lane slots.
 
last summer I built a PixInsight server for my basement for about $1700:

Ryzen 7950x 16 cores
MSI PRO X670-P motherboard
128 MB RAM
2x 2 TB NVME SSD
NVIDIA 3060

No monitor, keyboard, mouse as I run it remotely.

Absolutely kicks butt on big WBPP preprocessing jobs!

PI benchmark about 42000

Cheaper than a low-end MacBook Pro.
 
prjcole said:
Hi Tom.
The E5 chip isn't overclocked, it runs at 2.6Ghz. The board is about 9 years old and the years of usb plugs being swapped in and out has taken it's toll.
When i built it, I was running an i7 6850k which was a 6 core beast at the time. How things have changed (y)
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I was more referring to your future build if you go Asus again. (Should read and answer more slowly).

Cheers
Tom
 
airscottdenning said:
last summer I built a PixInsight server for my basement for about $1700:

Ryzen 7950x 16 cores
MSI PRO X670-P motherboard
128 MB RAM
2x 2 TB NVME SSD
NVIDIA 3060

No monitor, keyboard, mouse as I run it remotely.

Absolutely kicks butt on big WBPP preprocessing jobs!

PI benchmark about 42000

Cheaper than a low-end MacBook Pro.
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I think most intel/AMD builds are cheaper than a MacBook
Im looking at £1736 for the 16 core build. Which is about what I spent building present machine back in the day.
I use 2 BenQ PD 2700Q monitors as well
 
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AstroDude said:

airscottdenning​

Did you get CUDA to work with your RTX 3060?
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Sorry for the delay, but personnaly I had no problem using the RTX 3060 GPU (12 GB) for the various Tensorflow based AI scripts/processes, except that the need to follow the instruction and replace the tensorflow library. Unfortunately Tensorflow does not more support GPU on Windows, this is why you have to use an older version of the library. I also was able to to some basic tests using CUDA directly.
PyTorch works fine with RTX 3060, but it is not what is used by those processes..
 
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