I was thinking of building it myself with AMD components but I've heard rumors of issues with 3shape software. Could anyone that has experience building their own rigs provide me with some light in this matter?
My proposed 3shape AMD build:
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Cool, we're on the same boat right now. I think you should consider some changes to your build to optimize it further... I upgraded the premanufactured builds since they were woefully inadequate, with minimal issues. I'm looking to build one from scratch to see if it's going to be faster.
- Change to Intel CPU, I remember 3shape mentioning it works best with Intel/Nvidia. I got the RTX 2080Ti recently but I'm going to see if its adequate or if I should switch to the Quadro RTX.
- Liquid cooling is nice, but are you looking to overclock or have near 100% runtime? My concern is whether overclocking may result in stability issues
- More memory! This software is a huge memory hog along with windows 10. You may want to do 32 or 64gb. I upped the premanufactured build to 64gb.
- Power supply, I had to build a new computer due to the proprietary components of the Z240 and the power supply was way too weak (400W). It may result in stability issues if the CPU/GPU drain a lot of power
- More SSD storage. I ran into a problem where 250gb SSD was just not enough. Better to start large than have to migrate to a new disk which may or may not have compatibility issues later on (especially on dissimilar hardware). This is going to be my Sunday project to see if I can get it running on a mirrored drive using Macrium and ReDeploy.
I'll let you know once I build and test it. I'm about to upgrade my CERECs too, wish me luck, lol.