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Hi,
After 5 years, I've decided to buy a new PC. Unfortunately, i'm not up to date on the newest PC components and havn't built my own before so I'm trying to spec one up based on colleagues opinions and see what the difference would be on purchasing one pre-built from overclockers.
I'm a 3D Character artist, heavily reliant on programs such as 3D Max, Photoshop and ZBrush. Not too much use of game engines but I would like to use it for gaming (but not necessarily running everything on the highest spec).
Currently looking at the following:
i7 processor, mainly for the hyper threading as I render Ambient Occlusion maps frequently and it future proofs me for ZBrush 64 bit.
16gb RAM minimum, again ZBrush is heavily reliant on this. I'm not aware what difference the speed of the RAM would have on what I use it for (Although I would like to upgrade to 32gb in the future so 2 x 8gb seems appropriate).
Graphics card - Have no idea, i've been looking at the Geforce 770 (After something that will hold up well after 2-3 years).
SSD - min of 250gb. There seems to be varying opinions on the quality of SSD's so again not sure which one I want.
Second harddrive - 2-3tb.
Case - Preferably something that runs silent and cool. Some of the silencios look nice (I prefer a minimalistic looking case
).
Don't need Windows or Monitors (Blew a large amount of my budget on a Cintiq which is why I don't want to go overbudget on the PC build).
Don't know anything about motherboard quality or power supplies so any advice would be great.
Thank you in advance.
After 5 years, I've decided to buy a new PC. Unfortunately, i'm not up to date on the newest PC components and havn't built my own before so I'm trying to spec one up based on colleagues opinions and see what the difference would be on purchasing one pre-built from overclockers.
I'm a 3D Character artist, heavily reliant on programs such as 3D Max, Photoshop and ZBrush. Not too much use of game engines but I would like to use it for gaming (but not necessarily running everything on the highest spec).
Currently looking at the following:
i7 processor, mainly for the hyper threading as I render Ambient Occlusion maps frequently and it future proofs me for ZBrush 64 bit.
16gb RAM minimum, again ZBrush is heavily reliant on this. I'm not aware what difference the speed of the RAM would have on what I use it for (Although I would like to upgrade to 32gb in the future so 2 x 8gb seems appropriate).
Graphics card - Have no idea, i've been looking at the Geforce 770 (After something that will hold up well after 2-3 years).
SSD - min of 250gb. There seems to be varying opinions on the quality of SSD's so again not sure which one I want.
Second harddrive - 2-3tb.
Case - Preferably something that runs silent and cool. Some of the silencios look nice (I prefer a minimalistic looking case
).Don't need Windows or Monitors (Blew a large amount of my budget on a Cintiq which is why I don't want to go overbudget on the PC build).
Don't know anything about motherboard quality or power supplies so any advice would be great.
Thank you in advance
.
