System upgrade for rendering and gaming

[Crizzy]

Hi everyone,

Does any have any experience of Maya or Arnold renderers?

I've been asked to help upgrade a PC that is feeling a bit '"laggy".

The current specs are:

i3 (10th gen)
Geforce GTX 1060
16GB Ram

All running on a B460M mobo with a Corsair CV550 PSU and with a 512gb SSD.

I've been told that budget isn't an issue but doesn't need to be high end, just a bit of an upgrade.

I was thinking of bumping up the CPU to an i7 but not sure what would be suitable for graphics card or memory requirements?

For the rendering aspect, it's for a young lad just starting out in college doing Computer Animation, so he don't need studio grade performance, just capable.

Any ideas?

Thank you

 

[Crizzy]

Thanks, I'll probably float a couple of options and see where we go from there.

I didn't really want to go down the i9 option as I think that would possibly warrant an upgrade to the mobo and additional cooling. I don't think the i5 would be a big enough step up so that's why I initially landed on the i7.

I'm currently thinking i7, 64gb Ram and then an appropriate gfx card.