New computer!
Hello, Mortze speaking.
It is my duty as a creator here on Patreon to let my patrons know where their money, their support, goes. Some great part of it goes into allowing me to make the art, and for that I need to pay bills, eat, get clothes, pay gasoline, pay rent, relax. Another part goes into the Art itself, either by buying 3D content at DAZ, Renderosity, Renderotica, etc, Photoshop tutorials at Phlearn and brushes and ad-ons, and in hardware. I decided to make a huge investment and bought new furniture (desk), a new mouse pad, a new monitor and a new computer. The monitor and computer will allow me to speed up my workflow because I will be able to render 2 pics at the same time, or twice as fast if you prefer.
This isn't a cheap investment. Both my computers are high-end in terms of gaming. The left one is the new one. Both have i7-5820k CPUs, Asus X-99A MB and Asus X99 Gaming MB, 48GB and 32GB RAM, 2XGTX980TI and 2XGTX1080 GPUS. There are lots of gamers that will turn red knowing that I have this hardware and I use it only for rendering naughty pics.
This is also where your money goes. And I hope it is well spent.
Also, you get to get a glimpse at my workstation. Please, don't criticise the awful and inexistent cable managment...
(the laptop and sound system are from 2011. Awesome Logitech sound system btw!)
Cheers,
Mortze
Comments (10)
Nice rigs! You sure can play Crysis 3 quite well :). Perhaps you're considering an upgrade with 1080ti around the corner.
Not for a year or more. I don't think it is worth the absurd price it will be sold.
As someone who is working as sysadm, I'vee seen a lot lot lot worse than the way your cables are, you're fishing for praises here :). ..Seriously, tighten up the right hand part a bit please.
I don't know how to do that without simply pushing the cables to be hidden behind the computer and I'm not fond of having the back of the computer full of cables. I'm paranoic with fire hazards...
You've certainly earned it Mortze! Being a gamer I would certainly envy such hardware, but as a fellow artist at heart I also value good working conditions & equipment. It's hard to cut wood with a dull blade after all ;) As a true admirer of your art & games, it thrills me to know our patronage goes into good use of improving such conditions, it can only reflect back to us in quality and production time, so our few dollars a month is well spend :)
Thank you. Right now I'm doing script work, so it's basically writing on Word in the "old" computer (the right one)but soon I'll start dual rendering.
As I read this and took a moment or several to look at the pic I found myself smiling. I know the excitement and bundle of other emotions dropping the cash on the new work space and computer as I have recently done the same. Enjoy your time with the equipment and new work space. I certainly have with mine. Thanks for the update.
I don't see a kvm switch. How are you using 1 set of keyboard/mice with 2 computers?
It's a free Microsoft software: Mouse without borders. Lets you use 1 mouse and 1 keyboard with several machines connected to the same network.
Nice ;) It is good to work in good condition have fun ^^