Spec me a DeskTop to run Maya

[floatindolphin]

Hi folks,

1st time in this part of the forum (go gentle)


I'm looking into a desktop PC to run Maya/3ds max/afterfx/motionbuilder.

Could anyone point me in the right direction?


Looking to spend up to £1000



thanks

 

[floatindolphin]

This is my stab at it:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 770 Gaming Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £249.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £219.95
1 x Cooler Master Silencio SIL-652-KKN1 Midi-Tower - Black £89.99
1 x Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT240M500SSD1) £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x Gigabyte H87-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £71.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £61.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G1600HC9DC01) £49.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £992.41 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Dont know much about Maya/3ds max/afterfx/motionbuilder.

However most suggested the GTX 770 was a minimum with the ranking as follows:

Quote from cgarchitect.com

All credit goes to Demitris Tolios who was posting on this topic.

"GTX 780Ti > K6000 > GTX Titan > GTX 780 >> GTX 770/680 > K5000 > GTX 670 > GTX 760 >> GTX 660 >> K4000.
A K4000 is slow for GPU rendering, a K2000 is nearly useless in GPU rendering (too slow). You can use them, sure, but compute power / $ is horrible. I am mentioning nVidia cards only, simply because the current VRay RT GPU (2.x) is horribly optimized for AMD cards (despite the latter being probably much better in compute than nVidia)."

Cheers for the info