Flame Linux Hardware - sanity check

Flame Hardware Questions
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I’m close to pulling the trigger on this hardware config. In essence:

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX
NVIDIA RTX A6000
256GB RAM
2 x 8TB M.2 Gen4 SSDs (striped RAID 0 - framestore)
512GB SSD system disk

I know @ALan mentioned he didn’t rate the Lenovo and recommended the Dell - the only issue is Dell is madly overpriced in the UK. Barebones (no GPU, RAM or framestore) the Dell 7865 is £3,093.54 exVAT, an almost identical spec Lenovo P620 is £2,060 exVAT.

The alternative is I build a machine from scratch - I’m happy to do that, I’ve custom built my last 4 workstations but was rather hoping to avoid the day of two of pain that comes with it. The fact the Lenovo is Autodesk certified too is hopefully also going to make my life easier as I need to hit the ground running on this job.

Does this spec make sense? Are striped M.2’s ok as a framestore? Any advice gratefully recieved.

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I can’t speak to specifics on the exact requirements, but my experience has been great with Lenovo.

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I believe my tests showed an almost 2x render speed improvement from the Dells I had. Not a scientific study.

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I use striped M2’s in my hackintosh and get great performance from them.

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I own 3 Lenovos and love em. I’ll buy more. I get a lotta crap for doing a commercial for Lenovo, but have never been let down and have paid for all the machines myself and even been fortunate enough to give one away.

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The cost of entry to Linux has gone down so much now, it’s hard to not justify it over a Mac, IMO.

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Why stripe 2 NVMEs together when you can stripe 8? :slight_smile:

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Whoa. Randy running NSA.

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Well, your dell was end of life.

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Like me!

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Go to bed

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West coast day starting now. You go to bed.

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@Ally_Burnett you may not need that much ram. Unless you’re doing some mad, caching of thousand frame clips in PFTrack, 128 is good. Just be sure that no matter what you do you fill all eight slots with RAM. That will give you the best performance increase.

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Thanks all, appreciated. I’m going to be working at 12Kx12K with some very heavy comps - i know the GPU will be doing most of the heavy lifting but I figure you can never have to much RAM and it’s a relatively tiny cost in the greater scheme of things. Also, Autodesk recommend 256GB with this config.

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What Lenovo is that? Looks different to the P620 case.

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Hah - serves me right for looking on my phone - hadn’t figured the scale out! Ignore!

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I guess it would work out cheaper - What M.2 adapter do you use?

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Highpoint 7540.

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Minecraft Servers for me and my kids.

And pron.

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