Hey !
I'll start with explaining a bit about my situation so hopfully you can advise me on the best route to take..
I am a profesional Digital Artist, producing high resolution visualisations and animations for the entertainment and advertising industries. At work I use Autodesk 3ds Max, Vray, Adobe After Effects and Photoshop on a daily basis on a Dell Precision 690 Workstation.
I would now like to gear myself up for doing some extra work in my spare time in the evenings and weekends but this would require me investing in a PC as unfortunatley I only have a G4 PowerMac at home.
The thing is, I am quite out of touch with whats hot and whats not in the PC world as I have been slightly 'Macified'. Dont get me wrong, I still love using OS X, the whole pholosophy of it really sits will with me, however I do realise that I will have to invest in a PC for home if I am to take my work home with me.
I have been looking at i7 processors rather than Xeons. I like the look of either an Overclockers bundle and building my own or going down the route of a Boxx Tech machine.
Any advice of Graphics cards, Motherboards, HDDs etc ect would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
PS,
This is the sort of spec I have in mind only with more ram (12GB) and a better graphics card, Geforce? (PS, I dont game)
Could I get all these bits from OCUK cheaper?
I'll start with explaining a bit about my situation so hopfully you can advise me on the best route to take..
I am a profesional Digital Artist, producing high resolution visualisations and animations for the entertainment and advertising industries. At work I use Autodesk 3ds Max, Vray, Adobe After Effects and Photoshop on a daily basis on a Dell Precision 690 Workstation.
I would now like to gear myself up for doing some extra work in my spare time in the evenings and weekends but this would require me investing in a PC as unfortunatley I only have a G4 PowerMac at home.
The thing is, I am quite out of touch with whats hot and whats not in the PC world as I have been slightly 'Macified'. Dont get me wrong, I still love using OS X, the whole pholosophy of it really sits will with me, however I do realise that I will have to invest in a PC for home if I am to take my work home with me.
I have been looking at i7 processors rather than Xeons. I like the look of either an Overclockers bundle and building my own or going down the route of a Boxx Tech machine.
Any advice of Graphics cards, Motherboards, HDDs etc ect would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
PS,
This is the sort of spec I have in mind only with more ram (12GB) and a better graphics card, Geforce? (PS, I dont game)
Could I get all these bits from OCUK cheaper?