Development Update #71 (Patreon)

Making good progress on Episode 10. I'm focusing heavily on the renders to get as much as possible done before I go on holiday late this month. That way the bulk of the renders will be done when I continue development in August.

I've also had the opportunity to buy new hardware. I'm now the proud owner of two NVidia RTX 3090 GPUs, which were out of stock for a good while.

As I'm not much of a hardware guy, I naively though the two cards would fit in my current case without any modifications. Turns out a dual setup gets extremely hot (the top card does, because it sucks in all the heat from the bottom one).

I took one of the cards out and I'm now rendering on a single 3090 while I wait for new hardware to arrive. I decided to bite the bullet and ordered parts for a new system, including a water cooling loop from Alphacool. Here are some of the specs for those interested:

Motherboard: MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 2 x 32GB 3600 Mhz
Storage: Samsung 980 PRO MZ-V8P2T0BW SSD
Storage: 2x WD Ultrastar DC HC330 WUS721010AL5204 10TB
GPU: 2x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming OC 24G
PSU: Seasonic Prime Ultra Platinum 1300
Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 1000D - Super-Tower

My current system with the 2080ti and Titan Xp will probably serve as a render machine for animations. It's probably going to take me a while to assemble this thing, but I'm already quite excited for someone who isn't really into hardware...