Transcendence - Cool! The 32GB I was looking at actually is the G.Skill brand. Though I don’t remember the full name but good to see something I could recognize, haha. I was thinking of doing just that with the storage - 1TB SSD for the main stuff and then 1TB HDD for things like media, etc. I would be using high quality assets / scenes (so powerhouse is preferred).
Price wise I would be able to go around $2000 for the build, but I’m trying to make it as economic as possible to save wiggle room for the peripherals. I also have plenty of time for saving up (about 6 or 7 months). I currently have a 2011 iMac that has been amazing but with recent updates to Maya and Unreal Engine (even Unity to some extent) I’ve noticed the graphics card just can’t quite keep up. My laptop is a retina macbook pro with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M w/ 2GB and an i7 Haswell, so that’s been holding up fine (it’s a couple years old) and it’s great for mobility - but when it comes down to it I would rather have a desktop workstation because I like being at a desk. Lol. I’ve only owned macs for the last 7 years so I’m definitely new in the custom PC world but so far the stuff you can pull off for around the same price is really impressive, and so cool looking…
I’ve been using logical instruments and pc part picker as a guide so hopefully I’m on the right track. Again, any other recommendations welcome! Thanks <3