Im using a laptop that has a Quad Core i7 4th gen at 2.4Ghz, 16gb ram, and a gtx740m graphics card and the editor runs perfectly fine for me on all settings from Low to Epic.
Primarily I would say if you can get the 16gb bump. Simply having more than 8 is a huge thing when you are trying to be productive and not worry about a ceiling. Having the extra headroom helps for the editor.
The 750ti is one of the best non powered cards you can get for your money and nothing to sneeze at for the price. 2GB memory should be fine if your not trying to power a 4k monitor or anything silly.
I can’t comment on the CPU as I have not had AMD for years but it seems in terms of raw performance it’s passable.
I can say that I have ran the editor on a G3240 dual core Pentium with the non TI 750 (1gb) with 8GB Ram and the editor was surprisingly usable. The basic stuff would function 30ish fps when I wasn’t trying to push anything spectacular and things like Blueprints and Material editing did not want me to poke my eye out with a fork compared to using the IGP.
In my opinion if it’s possible I would try and spend a bit more and get an I5 4th gen as the raw performance of the intel chips seems to be a good thing.
TLDR: The parts you have will work, get 16gb if you can swing it and upgrade to an I5 if you can swing more.
I’m looking at a Dell Optiplex 790 which has a 2nd generation i5 (dualcore) and can support 16 GB. This store is selling it for $297.00 (local) with 4GB of DDR3.
I wonder how that would perform based on your experience with a dual core setup.
I don’t know why I want to get this, as I have already been recommended a better solution according to my request of $500.00 price tag. One of the problems aside from finance is delivery, I don’t have a vehicle and I don’t want something delivered to my house in fear that it will get taken (somewhat bad neighborhood).
Anyway, I wonder if upgrading to 4x4GB DDR3 and a 2GB or so PCI 2x16 graphics card, I can work with this setup or not. “work with” doesn’t sound too good.
honestly 16gb is overkill given you are on a budget. You can always add more RAM later as finances allow, but it would be better to get a better CPU up front. Do you have any existing components you would carry over to the new build? i.e. monitor, hard drive, operating system etc?
I have a gtx 760ti and a gtx 980…the 760ti isn’t that great imo…750ti will be even worse…depends on what you want to do I guess. It’s not gonna run something like the kite demo really well tho!!!
I have a i7 dualcore. Extremely slow for me, even when I just open a project that I have done nothing to. I don’t have to even bother doing any animation stuff. Too laggy and looks like it’s moving like 1 fps… On Unity and Blender I don’t have this problem, no idea why it’s so slow on UE4.8