im guessing your not a professional in the game dev field based on your profile, so either one would be more than sufficient. Any pc with decent hardware can run UE4 and having more powerful components really just means you can do things faster or in the case of memory have more objects in your level and more things open in general. workstations are really just normal pc s but with more reliable hardware and in some cases the graphics cards are different (ones specialized for rendering/ doing computations). i would say your good with the “gaming” build, but if you want to make it better for UE4 get more memory it always helps (you didnt say what it came with or what graphics card guessing a 1080).
personally the pc i use is about 5 years old. i5 4590, nvidia 1060ssc, 32GB ddr3. pretty basic but gets the job done without issues.
haha im not a pro, im actually a hobbiest. i did go to school for computers but not the game dev kind of thing.
anyway though it does seem like a good build based on the specs, as for price not sure since i havent shopped around in awhile. 1060 isnt nearly top end, but what you need really depends on your goals. if you want a photo-realistic game that high-poly and large textures then you need a really good card, otherwise youll be good. i would go for the 6GB card though not the 3GB one. also there is no ti version of the 1060 just so you know (at least from what ive seen).
you ever think of building your own pc? may save you a few bucks.
I’m currently, shopping for computers for ue4, and I encountered workstations and gaming computers.
So sense ue4 is a little of both, gaming and hard task (correct me if I’m wrong) I’m trying to figure out which should I use to develop, i can’t afford a ultimate workstation pc because they go around for close to 5k-10k for a Intel Xeon titanium, but I can afford a ultimate gaming pc build, with a Intel i7 8500k that goes for 2400, so would ue4 perform any better with workstation pc or will a gaming pc do just fine?
Hi thanks for replying, my pc is basically like yours but, my mistake I was trying to remember the specs from the top of my head, its built from digital storm and is under the velox area, the specs are Intel core i7 8700k 6-core 3.7GHz, 32gb DDR4 3000MKz, 1 SDD 500Gb, 3TB storage, GEForce GTX 1060ti which I will upgrade in the future, so that’s the specs from digital storm, so will this build work, I’m convinced,it will work but I need professional users like yourself to tell me so?
Well that’s the site I’m under, they build pcs, and they build it for you with the parts and the price of the parts, I was going to,buy a pc from,best buy, but then I looked into the other pcs custom built rigs and saw a whole new world of power and price. I agree i am going to upgrade that 1060 to a 1070 later on, but all I can afford is a 2300 that’s my budget and what 3gb were you talking about?
Ok I see, its the graphics card
I’d consider a larger SSD, but everything else looks great
Ok thank you harry! Thanks for replying, eventually once I get the pc ill add a better Gtx and a better SDD to my upgrade list! Thanks for both your help!