Total that got cut of there was £3,309. Which to be fair given what it allows me to do now will mean it should pay for itself within a couple of years worst case.
Hey all, thanks for all your replies to my previous post about the beefy machine for test renders, i am delighted to say i have gone ahead and ordered the machine after switching the gpu to a 4080 super, and getting a slighty better power supply.
I have also decided to go ahead and double the RAM to 192GB while they are still builing it. But i am getting concerned about cold boots and memory training.
How often does memory training happen? Is it every cold boot? Every manual reset?
The machine will be crashing alot, its just the nature of pushing them hard, and i dont want to be stuck waiting with that horrible feeling of if it will ever even boot at all, the next time i push the render quality a little too high in 3DSMax.
Would greatly appreciate some feedback on this from someone with experience of machines that have alot of RAM.
I get ya want to overclock, buy why on a rendering machine? Are those seconds saved worth loosing an entire render and having to restart / clear CMOS
The more ram the less stable overclocking will get. Hence why most rendering machines stick with JDEC timings
Feel free to ignore me as the most ram I've OC'd if 64gb
Hey thanks for your reply, are you saying memory training is only related to overclocking?
As no, i dont intend to overlock the machine. I dont know much about PC building and had seen some videos with people talking about memory training, i just assumed it was a part of the build/boot process for all machines.
I guess my question really is then, does having a very large amount of RAM have a negative effect on boot times, and is there any variation in that depending on the type of boot, cold/soft etc.
My 64GB rig takes a good 1-2 minutes to memory train. You can skip it on most boots by enabling
Memory Context Restoreon Asus motherboards, but starting after being unplugged from power or a hardware change (and seemingly randomly) will still require training. I also believe XMP plays a heavy part in training, so leaving it at the default JDEC speeds should speed up the boot process.