Kindly check my spec?

Zefan

Zefan

Zefan

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The missus is looking for a system for doing design/architecture work. It'll need to be great for MAX 10/11, AutoCad 10/11, Adobe Suite, Rhino, etc. Here's an excerpt from what she said she will be doing.

"Anything from collaging on photoshop, indesign for layout, editing short films (maybe a bit of animation of models), modelling in 3d, rendering (lighting textures and all that), I'll be flipping back and forth between rhino and max a lot, max/rhino to autocad, photoshop to indesign, and from max to photoshop."

I've been out of the hardware loop for about 2 years now but after some quick reading I think I've got an alright idea of what's what. I would do a build for her myself however she's after a pre-made system.

So the final questions are, do you reckon this with 8GB RAM and the Radeon 5770 would be adequate?

Any benefit to using a SSD at all for her?

A decent screen for colour reproduction would be handy so that when printing things look like they did on screen, however I know the best are extremely expensive. I was going to plump for the BenQ 24" on TWO but not sure about its application in this instance.

Cheers for any help chaps.

:edit: Budget is up in the air, looking for best bang/buck!
 
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This is the problem, I don't really know what sort of budget is needed for a build like this, but she seems to be willing to throw £2k at it (wrong, now £1k) should she need to. Should have included this in original post, edited now thanks.

Basically I'm keen to find a sweet spot in terms of price/performance. Someone she knows has got a dual Xeon, 12GB Ram, Nvidia Quadro, 2TB in RAID 0, 2 24" monitors and is putting strange ideas in to her head that because this girl has spent thousands, she obviously needs to as well! I don't really want to see her ripped off like that :p

Cheers for the replies so far.
 
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Never heard of CUDA before, looks pretty clever. After a quick google it appears that this could speed up rendering, is that right?

Cheers for the advice.
 
Zefan said:
Never heard of CUDA before, looks pretty clever. After a quick google it appears that this could speed up rendering, is that right?

Cheers for the advice.
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yep, it just uses the silly raw computing power of the graphics core to do the work, only have to check youtube for demonstrations from Adobe to see side by side comparisons compared to a really fast CPU, its a huge difference.

aslong as the programs support it, or you have to download a different renderer for a particular program to take advantage, its nice to have the option of it being there than a ATI card without.
 
Buying tonight, any more feedback? Not used to buying pre-built so I'm desperate to get this right :o :p
 
Cheers chaps!

Finally any ideas on the monitor situation? Budget is now £1000 so needs to squeeze under that. Would like 22-24" and great colour reproduction, althogh I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen right :p? There are a few on TWO, any suggestions?
 
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