I’m on pcpartpicker and building a pc, not got a background in computers so looking for advice here, wondering if these specs are adequate enough to run UE5 at a decent level, I’m using it for Metahuman Animator on small levels with level sequencers to render animations - got 32GB RAM - 16GB VRAM - DDR4 - wondering if there’s anything faulty e.g is the CPU not good enough or motherboard etc?
I agree with Nawrot on the GPU. Although I think other parts need changing as well, like the PSU, because if that fails on you or the wattage is not enough, then you’d lose more than frame rate and rendering time. Potentially killing your other parts as well.
I’d be more than happy to put together a build for you, if you’d tell me your budget and if it needs other peripherals like monitor, keyboard+mouse, etc. If I were you I’d set a £1000 budget and that should be a computer that will be more than enough for UE and other graphic and render intensive stuff, especially if you’re just getting into it.
I’d certainly welcome that, you’re more than welcome to tinker with the other parts for the best fit for monitor/keyboard I’m gonna find my own there, 1k is a doable budget for me, was concerned on the CPU and whether it’d be sluggish or not.
The GPU however I will need to be the 4060 as i need the 16VRAM for Stable Diffusion, I have seen the bad reviews on it and wouldn’t be getting it otherwise, but unfortunately I need a Nvidia card and the only other thing I can find is the £1,000+ 4090 which is a big price hike from £400ish.
My usage for UE 5 will be having a greenscreen level + Metahuman Animator and then rendering the level sequence of the Metahuman performance, the card would be capable of this right?
So I spent way too much time on this, but here it is. It comes off a bit above £1000, however if you could wait like 20 days, Amazon Prime Day is on the 10-11 October so you may get parts cheaper. I did not compare too many websites on price so you may want to look for deals and stuff.
I would buy a better cooler tho. I have the Arctic Freezer 34 esport duo for nearly 3 years and it’s great even on high load and it costs £48 which is not bad.
The CPU has 2 more cores which will help in multitasking and with rendering.
Upgraded to different motherboard as well as it wasn’t compatible with newer CPUs. However, VERY IMPORTANT thing! You have to upgrade your bios to the latest version to use the CPU. Sadly this is the same with every motherboard in this price range.
For RAM I chose 2x32gb so you’ll have headroom to upgrade to more if you’d ever need to. I saw that you said 32gb on the forum, but have 64gb on the list. You could save £50 if 32gb is enough. You could always upgrade for more later on. This one for example is a good value(£70): Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory
Also upgraded for bigger storage as well, instead of the 400GB you’d have a faster 1TB. I’d buy another SSD sooner or later, especially if you’ll have large files stored. Storage is not very expensive these days. I wouldn’t buy HDD tho as it’s kinda deprecated compared to today’s SSDs.
If you have any questions I’m more than happy to help! I could give advice on building it as well if you need.
Im going to warn you eairly on that for computers you really don’t want to cheap out on them considering that if you do, you will 100% get what you pay for. recently brother purchased cheaper parts because he said it wont crap out and no later then one year from the time he bought it, the mosfet chip capacitor fried his entire Moba. He didn’t even do anything to the pc just walked away to look at what i was doing and went back and the pc just Bricked instantly. here are parts that i would recommend. Yes it costs more, but in the future down the road about 5-7 years your stuff will most likly still be strong enough for todays and possibly the future games that come out. This is what i recommend. this is what I currently have and you should be fine to render up to anywhere from 2-5million pollys if your doing your modeling work on blender and then transferring to unreal. Good luck mate. your pc case can be almost anything, and wait for parts to go on sale.
for monitor/keyboard I’m gonna find my own there, 1k is a doable budget for me, was concerned on the CPU and whether it’d be sluggish or not.
