Hi. I am looking for a desktop to smoothly perform
3d animation, 3d modelling and work in unreal.
I have no budget limit, but its price must be fair and parts logically needed.
i don’t need any other stuff rather than performance.
I don’t need extremely high end with parts such as usb3 or mega super
duper cooling system with led display and christmas lights which are not really needed
and will be outdated next year. Or security systems, 32 hard-drives, 2cd roms… you
got the point
It’s always cheapest and best to build your own, a great computer before diminishing returns really starts to kick in would be an i7 with a GTX 970 or R9 290X, 16 GB of ram with room to upgrade if needed, 240 GB SSD, and would be a around $1300.
The more budget friendly option would be a 8-core AMD, R9 280x, 120 GB SSD, 16 gigs of ram, for about $850.
I didn’t expect to hear 970 actually. Its pretty weak in comparison with 980ti.
And as you may know 3d modelling cards such as quadro suck at games
and gamer cards aren’t very good at 3d modelling. I need to find a compromise.
So maybe i need 2 of 980ti… What do you think? Does it worth it?
Wont it be beaten in couple of years by some 16gb Dominator XXX card for
250 bucks?
Cause we all remember Titan, ay?
I have no idea what to buy at all, and also custom pc builder companies
in Australia charge 1000 for their work…
Please advise
Gamer cards are not good for 3d modeling? that’s new…
If you don’t really know what gpu you need, then you definitely don’t ‘‘need’’ a Quadro.
And don’t buy 2 gpus…unreal engine 4 editor doesn’t support SLI. Unless you want to use a gpu offline renderer (octane, etc) …there’s no point to buy that right now.
Unreal does a lot of calculation and baking on the cpu and ram. Take that into account. It’s no all about the gpu!
Just get a good balanced build like mine
core i7 3970k (quad-core is a must)
16gb of ram (or even 32 if you can)
gtx 980 superclocked (lots of good features, shadowplay, nvidia gameswork)
SSD (blazing fast, **** HDD)
>gamer gpu suck at 3d modelling
>heartless thinks thats new
>nvidia stops manufacturing quadros
>companies stop building workstations and professional 3d modelling desktops and go bankrupt
> CAD benchmarks of gtx`s go from 1.5 FPS to 150
>Applauds
I think that after Intel`s new generation CPU announced there is
no point of buying a machine right now. Also, maybe some core 5000s… or
Xeon would be better?
After the GTX 970, your bang for your buck really starts to drop, a GTX 980 ti is awesome if you want it and can afford it.
Don’t go SLI unless your want to do a GPU compute rig, or want to waste money, your better off upgrading every generation to the flag ship card, rather than doing SLI.
Xeon may give you a bit better prices at the lower end because they don’t have a integrated GPU, but they aren’t better unless you are looking for features their consumer lineup doesn’t provide. If you want to build the most insane render farm, get one of the $2000+ 14-Core Xeon processors. If you want a general purpose PC with great single threaded performance and multithreaded performance, get an i7 (a 6 or 8 core if you really want to start dumping money into it).
Don’t use Quadro cards with game engines. Game engines are meant to run on gaming cards. There’s a few benifits to having a quadro card in an application with Maya or 3ds Max, but it really isn’t worth it, 3d modelers that work on games use gaming graphics cards. Quadro cards are really meant for very specific uses and Autocad.
It’s hardly ever worth waiting on new CPU and GPUs, just buy what you need now, unless it’s literally coming out next month. Sure there will be a performance increase, but really not that much.
