3Ds Max / Unity / AutoCAD rig

iostream · 22 Nov 2013 at 11:49

Hey folks,

A friend of mine is looking to do some freelance work at home using the software mentioned in the title, i.e. 3Ds Max / Unity / AutoCAD and probably some Photoshop as well.

Budget of about £400. Don't need a monitor or peripherals.

Any suggestions? I can spec a gaming rig just fine, but I have no idea what sort of CPU/GPU combo would be ideal for this area of work...

Thanks

iostream · 22 Nov 2013 at 12:37

Thanks micky, that looks great - I'll see if I can squeeze an extra £100 out of her, which hopefully leaves about £130 for a GPU.

I'm presuming 8 cores are good for 3D work. What sort of GPU? Does it really need to be a workstation one, or would something like a GTX 660 2GB do?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-193-MS

iostream · 23 Nov 2013 at 13:51

Hey Luna, welcome

And thanks for chipping in. Sounds like the 8 core Piledriver is the best solution as far as a CPU goes...

However my friend is fresh out of uni, hence the budget unfortunately. In regards to pushing the ram from 8gb to 16gb, do you think it would be worth switching to the 6 core Piledriver and thus saving £30 for more ram? Or get the 8 core now, and when money allows, get another 8gb of ram?

I'll ask about the game engine side of things, not sure where her focus will be. Don't know anything about the Firepro / Quadro cards. May have a look on an auction site and see how much they go for as they are expensive brand new!

iostream · 23 Nov 2013 at 14:07

Lunastraza said:
i would go for the 8gb for now and get the 8 core, i use the 4ghz varient clocked at 4.5ghz for my work so it's a perfect choice.

Upgrade the ram when you can, a new firepro v4900 is about £160? from memory and is about on par on the engine side as a GTX 260 usually. .

Ok sounds good to me, 8 cores and 8gb for now it is. I'm sure I can grab a used v4900 pretty cheap somewhere

She dabbles in Minecraft from time to time, so that should be plenty grunt to run the game.