If you're new to game development and 3D animation, what would your ideal system set up be?

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Desktop > Laptop. But you cannot (really shouldn’t) take the desktop on a train…

• are you going to work while moving around the country → laptop
• are you going to take advantage of the global pandemic and work from home, pantless → desktop

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unreal 5 system requirements

One lucky young man! For a future-proof desktop: 8-12 core CPU: 5800x / 5900x (5950x if the budget allows it) minimum 32GB RAM, 3200 MHz will do fine a modern graphic card, a GeForce 3060, 3070, 3080 - depending on the budget / availability 2 NVMe SSDs with at least 1TB capacity each quality Gold+ rated power supply so none of the above fries Lots of good reading in this thread, too: