So... I have been able to get everything up and running, unfortunately, there was a delay in one of the parts, but I substituted in a GTX1660Ti for the meanwhile. Results were quite interesting, running 3shape's own benchmark. I went from an
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OS Hard Drive matters a LOT for the HD Write time. Changing to a high performance NVMe drove the HD Write time down 75%.
Interestingly enough, there was a 19% increase in Stream Load time. Looking at the results from the i9 (stock),v. i9 (slight OC),the stream load time decreased with the OC. This would lead me to believe that there's a correlation with CPU single core clock speed and stream load time.
Now, the most important benchmark for me is the post-process time. I believe that this is due to change in graphics card. This leads me to believe that the software is not optimized for workstation graphics cards, although the one provided was a paltry M2000, the replacement is a midtier consumer card. I will know for sure when the 2080Ti comes in and check the benchmarks. I did my own full arch IO scan and found that the real world post-processing was definitely a lot faster even with the 1660Ti.
Anyway, I'll keep you guys posted with the final results. Hopefully this gives you guys some insight into the software. Worst case scenario, if I cannot improve the stream load time, I might try switching the cpu back to the i7-7700k.
I took the opportunity to talk to Core3d about specs. Kinda knew what I needed already... I found this setup. Same cost as the one above mentioned but a bit better specs:
