Looking to build architecture rendering PC. Help!

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I have a budget of £1500, but would prefer to stay below £1000, and will be using Revit, 3ds Max, Maxwell, Rhino, and Microstation.

Currently, I'm looking at cheap peripherals, something like a Dell Ultrasharp, and a Fractal R4 for a case... and that's it :p. I don't really know what components are most important for a rendering PC, so I'd be grateful for some suggestions for the budgeting of the rest of the components, and what kind of components I should be looking for.

So, things like how important the GPU is, whether I should go Nvidia or AMD, how much RAM, what speed, what kind of CPU, whether drive speed matters, and how I might use my budget to get the best balance of components.

Thanks :)
 
R290 / 770, i7, 16GB RAM, 550+W PSU. And yeah, stick with the R4 and UltraSharp :)

Maybe one of those pro graphics card (FirePro /. whatever). Dunno what is best supported for your software. No need to spend stupid amounts on the GPU imo, below £300.

Should be around £1200 all together.

An example :

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 770 DirectCU OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Dell UltraSharp U2412M 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey £239.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £98.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Desktop Kit - (MZ-7TE120KW) £97.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EZRX) HDD £76.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 330R Silent Mid Tower Case - Black £74.95
1 x Enermax Triathlor 550w '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (ETL550AWT) £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,276.93 (includes shipping : £20.10).

 
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Cool, I'll expand from your recommendations. I think I'll try and get an AMD alternative actually, since I notice the Nvidia cards have horrendous OpenCL performance, and not even any good CUDA performance to make up for it. I think I read that Nvidia crippled performance in CUDA since these are consumer cards. Probably go for a 280X or something. Turns out my probgrams are mostly DirectX anyway.

Thanks for the help :)
 
PorkPieCat said:
Cool, I'll expand from your recommendations. I think I'll try and get an AMD alternative actually, since I notice the Nvidia cards have horrendous OpenCL performance, and not even any good CUDA performance to make up for it. I think I read that Nvidia crippled performance in CUDA since these are consumer cards. Probably go for a 280X or something. Turns out my probgrams are mostly DirectX anyway.

Thanks for the help :)
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np. 280X are good cards. 7970's at the base, 3GB ram.
 
8gb ram wont be enough for a 3d rendering pc, I'm getting by on 16gb and looking at adding another 16gb.
Nvidia drivers have historically been better in 3d apps.
 
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PorkPieCat said:
how much RAM
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Given the probability that 16GB would be enough but you may need 32GB, I'd be tempted to buy a 4x8GB kit, fit just 2 sticks and test a massive render. If it proves not to be enough fit the other 2. If 16GB is enough then resell the 2 spare sticks as a 2x8GB kit. Certainly a safer option than adding unmatched sticks later.
 
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