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Author Topic: Any recommendations for a good desktop pc for fractals?  (Read 17373 times)
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« on: July 10, 2015, 05:44:27 PM »

I'm using an old 32bit computer laptop and I was going to change to a 64bit with two times as much ram but a desktop pc is probalby better and customizable. Are there any recommendations for a good but not too expensive cpu? I don't have a budget yet so price doesn't matter yet but I'm probably not looking for something above 1000 euro's. I prefer to use windows because I'm mainly going to use Kalles Fraktaler and Mandel Machine.
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« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2015, 11:52:49 PM »

Kalles fraktaler and Mandel Machine both heavily use floating point computations on the main processor. Graphics card is irrelevant to those programs. A quad core Intel i5 is probably best performance per dollar. The i7 series is a bit faster, but considerably more expensive; while the i3 chips are meant for power constrained machines. AMD is pretty much out of the race, sadly.
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« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2015, 12:28:46 AM »

i've got an i7-3770k and am very happy with it since ... 18(?) months. and it was best bang for the buck.
spend the rest of your budget on ram and especially on ssd harddrive for system an much used stuff. ssd rules and really speeds up,
my windows 8.1 is up within 10 seconds. ssd was the biggest improvement of my upgrades..
and for fractals, check this thread that I'm too lazy to search for now. but my processor scored pretty high and is cheap. I'm happy.
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« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2015, 08:15:39 AM »

Kalles fraktaler and Mandel Machine both heavily use floating point computations on the main processor. Graphics card is irrelevant to those programs. A quad core Intel i5 is probably best performance per dollar. The i7 series is a bit faster, but considerably more expensive; while the i3 chips are meant for power constrained machines. AMD is pretty much out of the race, sadly.

i've got an i7-3770k and am very happy with it since ... 18(?) months. and it was best bang for the buck.
spend the rest of your budget on ram and especially on ssd harddrive for system an much used stuff. ssd rules and really speeds up,
my windows 8.1 is up within 10 seconds. ssd was the biggest improvement of my upgrades..
and for fractals, check this thread that I'm too lazy to search for now. but my processor scored pretty high and is cheap. I'm happy.

Thanks. Depending on what else I'm going to use these could be a good choice. I can choose between i5 and i7, I'm not making a choice yet because there probably is a lot more to look for. I think I will also get a graphics card for various other reasons. smiley I'm not sure whether I need to use windows 7 or 10. But I think 10 should be better, I'm not going to use windows 8 because I think it is too much aimed to tablets and a little inconvenient for a desktop pc.
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« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2015, 12:10:04 PM »

For the graghics ncard, I would get the GTX 750. That is what I have, and it works like a charm.

I would also use windows 7, because you can upgrade to 10 for free later.
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« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2015, 01:12:13 PM »

For the graghics ncard, I would get the GTX 750. That is what I have, and it works like a charm.

I would also use windows 7, because you can upgrade to 10 for free later.

Thats only limited and I don't think I will be able to get it all before that expires. But I think 7 is a good choice.
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2015, 01:27:30 PM »

What about the ammout of ram? I thought 8 would be good. Or should it be more?
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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2015, 01:46:28 PM »

i am running with 16 gigs, and still think it is far to less wink
depending on what you want to do with your computer while rendering, or how many instances you might want to run at the same time,
and most important is that you match the memory speeds with your board speeds, and take the fastest available ram, ram is one of the
most essential things a computer needs, so the faster, the bigger, the better wink
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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2015, 01:53:06 PM »

i am running with 16 gigs, and still think it is far to less wink
depending on what you want to do with your computer while rendering, or how many instances you might want to run at the same time,
and most important is that you match the memory speeds with your board speeds, and take the fastest available ram, ram is one of the
most essential things a computer needs, so the faster, the bigger, the better wink

It will be for rendering mostly, I don't have to worry about Kalles Fraktaler and Mandel Machine not being fast enough. smiley But is it possible to use between 8 and 16 ram, for instance 12gb of ram?
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« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2015, 02:15:09 PM »

Btw, I've been thinking to also install the google neural networks program, and it require quite a lot of computation power so I thought 12 would be good. But is there a sort of quality-scale I can choose from?
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« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2015, 07:06:46 PM »

regarding deepdream:
i believe the most important thing is ram. I've allocated 12gb to the virtualbox to achieve 2560*1440 resolution.
if you want it to compute faster (large images with 10*4 iterations take around 20 minutes here) you need a nvidia graphic-card that supports cuda. problem is, for the same resolution you would also need 12gb graphics ram... (yes, it is possible to use 12gb, but pay attention to dual-channel ram which (if i remember correctly) is much faster.
when I look at my task manager, it doesn't use all cpus and its going up and down all the time. I don't think the amount of cores is not so important.
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« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2015, 08:00:00 PM »

regarding deepdream:
i believe the most important thing is ram. I've allocated 12gb to the virtualbox to achieve 2560*1440 resolution.
if you want it to compute faster (large images with 10*4 iterations take around 20 minutes here) you need a nvidia graphic-card that supports cuda. problem is, for the same resolution you would also need 12gb graphics ram... (yes, it is possible to use 12gb, but pay attention to dual-channel ram which (if i remember correctly) is much faster.
when I look at my task manager, it doesn't use all cpus and its going up and down all the time. I don't think the amount of cores is so important.
Ok. Thanks for the information.
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« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2015, 08:41:35 PM »

re:deep dream

I have 6G system mem and a 2G nVidia card and I can render 2880x3840 images
Using cnn-vis.py https://github.com/jcjohnson/cnn-vis with cuDNN

in cnn-vis the gfx card mem is used for calculating, not holding image data, the image data goes to a png file,

the --batch-size option controls how much ram is used on the GPU,
I get this output no matter what the image dimensions are when --batch-size=100 ...
Code:
I0712 11:20:44.759096  8298 net.cpp:213] Network initialization done.
I0712 11:20:44.759105  8298 net.cpp:214] Memory required for data: 625125600
I can push it past 128 but at 128 and less seems to perform better smiley
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« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2015, 09:57:27 PM »

re:deep dream

I have 6G system mem and a 2G nVidia card and I can render 2880x3840 images
Using cnn-vis.py https://github.com/jcjohnson/cnn-vis with cuDNN

in cnn-vis the gfx card mem is used for calculating, not holding image data, the image data goes to a png file,

the --batch-size option controls how much ram is used on the GPU,
I get this output no matter what the image dimensions are when --batch-size=100 ...
Code:
I0712 11:20:44.759096  8298 net.cpp:213] Network initialization done.
I0712 11:20:44.759105  8298 net.cpp:214] Memory required for data: 625125600
I can push it past 128 but at 128 and less seems to perform better smiley


Hm... Memory limiting. Good to know, thank you.
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« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2015, 12:17:26 AM »

i've got an i7-3770k and am very happy with it since ... 18(?) months. and it was best bang for the buck.
spend the rest of your budget on ram and especially on ssd harddrive for system an much used stuff. ssd rules and really speeds up,
my windows 8.1 is up within 10 seconds. ssd was the biggest improvement of my upgrades..
and for fractals, check this thread that I'm too lazy to search for now. but my processor scored pretty high and is cheap. I'm happy.
I think Im going for the INTEL CORE I7 4770. Im not conpletely sure yet but the price/performance ratio is great. Though it is still expensive in here, I may have to go to gemany for better prices. smiley
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