Just to let everybody know, I may be offline here soon for a little bit. My work rig suddenly started having problems with the LAN jack on the motherboard no longer working constantly.
I double checked it with the tech from my internet provider today, and my access into the house is awesome, and it works just fine on WIFI (for now), so the jack is most likely the culprit.
Which means, after 4 years of running the hell out of this machine, it’s time for upgrades.I’ll be stalking the sales like a hawk the next couple weeks, and since I know what I want, it shouldn’t be too much of an issue to find it.
Comics are backed up, along with the source/data files…so nothing is in danger of being lost.
Any who, just thought I’d let everybody know what’s up. Ciao.
Good luck and good hunting.
Is this your Titan? The problem with modern motherboards is that they’ve pretty much killed off the LAN adapter market.
I’m just finishing burn-in on a Frankenbox on an old Acer mid-tower chassis; Asus 250 class MB, 500GB M.2 SSD, 16 GB DDR4 RAM, Corsair RM750, Corsair H60 cooling. It doesn’t even reach blood-heat 😉
Everything is a single-board computer these days, except for the GPU. 😉
Yeah, it’s my main work rig. For some reason, the wired LAN adapter problem has vanished (I was using my separate 802.11N WIFI card in the interim to get by.) I have no idea why it suddenly resolved itself, but I do not trust it one bit. Especially since the wired LAN is on board 🙁
But yeah, I think the time is coming. My current plan is to ride this as long as I can and then make some upgrades. My drives, graphics card, and burner are all in great shape and will be making the trip over to a new case/board/cpu/psu/ram when the time comes.
FWIW, I am seeing loads of USB-C to Ethernet adapters for around $35 right now. I am amazed that USB is now fast enough to support LAN speeds 😉
It sounds like you have a cracked solder joint in your LAN connector. However, the minute you dismount your motherboard to repair it, you might as well rip into the whole thing. 😉
Yes, I could have built the equivalent of my Titan X-151 a tad cheaper than buying my Titan, especially with the 800CHF import fees + the 500CHF shipping (one thing that makes Titan’s warranty useless, for me. Cost of shipping to them for repairs + costs of shipping back +re-import fees makes it far cheaper for me to self-repair using locally sourced parts.) 🙁
That’s why I’m glad I built my own. It ended up saving me more than a bit of money (since I don’t have to worry about import fees)
I’ll watch this thing like a hawk in the meantime and try and ride it out as long as I can. I’ve got everything picked out, and I’ll jump on it when I need to.
Hardware wise it’ll be another i7
http://a.co/bMLR6vq
Prettty damn close to what I was running before with the option to go to 64gb’s on the board when I’m ready
I notice that you don’t specify a GPU. Are you going to custom cooling? If so, you might consider an ASUS Poseidon 1080ti. Very cool. Two of those plus your existing GFX 1080 should get you a 7,500 CUDA render farm, using the OTOY software. 😉
I didn’t specify a GPU because I don’t need a GPU. My 980 is just fine for now. And CUDA is useless to me currently. Carrara 8.1 does not support it.
I apologize for the previous pun. I was not entirely unintended.
I question the i7-8700K CPU. NVIDIA GPUs benefit very little from extra cores. I have i7-7700 CPUs in my new builds but I am also running a MariaDB cluster for implementing a storyboard wiki, on a local IIS server off one of my 2012 R2 servers. Yeah, a bit much for a SOHO but I have plans. 😉
Don’t question it. Rendering in Carrara is all based on CPU cores and clockspeed. It has absolutely nothing to do with the GPU. It would be different if I was using DAZ Studio for something…but I avoid it like the plague.
One other thing I got for buying from Titan Computer was the Asus GFX 1080ti card, for $600. Those are over 900CHF here , atm, when you can even get them. Crypto-currency miners are soaking up every high end NVIDIA card in sight and prices are sky-rocketing. even GFX 1050ti cards are scarce.
That bit about Carrara not supporting CUDA is quite interesting. That also means that Iray support is lacking. Excellent point!
After 30+ years, the new GPU-based computing paradigms are very interesting and I have to remind myself that I am, in fact, retired and I am not doing Computer Science research anymore. I am now doing New Media stuff. *I will resist delving into the new AI stuff using NVIDIA cards as well*. Sometimes, retirement can be a bitch 😉
Thanks for the reminder. 😉
LAN card are by no means killed off. Check Amazon or Newegg. You can get a PCIe LAN card for about $15 or an Intel LAN card for $25. Personally I’d go with the Intel as I’ve never had problems with them.