advice on making a pc system for 3d art creation

[tooncinator]

Hi,
I'm looking to get a new computer. My single core, ddr1 memory and old 5 series nvidia card are really dated and slowing me down. I can teven install things like unreal engine 3 on my computer due to my graphics card. Anywho, I'm looking to spend around 700 usd on a new system. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what would the money be best spent on? (need a gfx card, MB, ddr2 memory, and quad core cpu). Also , is more then 4 gigs of ram necesary for modeling and rendering. I use 3d studio max 8, photoshop cs2, getting started with zbrush, and hoping to get into unreal 3 engine when I can install it.

Thanks

[amek]

you need to choose is you going with AMD processor or Intel.

[tooncinator]

Most likely it will be amd due to theire new phenom x2s being so so cheap compared to the cheapest i7 from intel.

[mikeab7925]

i'd look into the new motherboards with support for the hybrid crossfire /or sli. the onboard video is better than most have hardware and you can slap a video card in for dual card setups. for about 140-160$ you'll have a mobo and basically 2 videos cards.

ati hybrid
nvidia

also yes a amd phenom 2 denab 920 would be fine and can overclock to 3.4GHz on air, trust me. i did although it's not needed.

if you can afford it get 2 identical sataII 16mb /or 32mb cache harddrives and look into RAID.

make sure to grab atleast 2GB of Ram 4GB if you can @ 800MHz. 1600MHz is overrated.

also you'll need atleast a 500watt power.

[amek]

yeap..the AMD new X2 7750 is a good one .and also good for the price.
check also the the newest X4 Phenom II..this is also a good choice for you.

for mainboard check the price for DFI DK 790FXB or DFI JR 790GX..

i recommend you go with mainboard with 790gx or FX chipset.

[SDA]

Yeah, go for AMD. They are around 2-3 times cheaper and they give almost the same results for processing as Intel. My first computer was AMD, something like socket 940 I guess, on 1900Mhz single core and ECS Elite Group MB and I loved it. It was powerfull even in that time...

Form there I have changed my configuration 4 times (I had that computer bought in 2004), and changed system around 9 times... Weird

AMD processors are known to generate less heat than Intel's processors and they save power far better than Intel.

PS: Don't beleve me, buy any PC magazine and look in hardware section, you will see that AMD is the ultimate choise.

Cheers

[amek]

Originally Posted by SDA

Yeah, go for AMD. They are around 2-3 times cheaper and they give almost the same results for processing as Intel. My first computer was AMD, something like socket 940 I guess, on 1900Mhz single core and ECS Elite Group MB and I loved it. It was powerfull even in that time...

Form there I have changed my configuration 4 times (I had that computer bought in 2004), and changed system around 9 times... Weird

AMD processors are known to generate less heat than Intel's processors and they save power far better than Intel.

PS: Don't beleve me, buy any PC magazine and look in hardware section, you will see that AMD is the ultimate choise.

Cheers

yeah..agree

[rashiga]

i prefer go 4 q6600 , 4gb ddr2 ,g45 chipset ,nvidia 9800gt
i think ull be able 2 mange this specs under 700$

[CGicore]

Quad Q6600
CPU as fast as you can afford
8 Gb rams
Wacom Tablet v.3 or v.4
Always work with dual monitors
GFX card: I'm using ATI FireGL V.5600 512 Mbs
Plenty of HD space

[SDA]

I have Wacom tablet, it is very useful, but I also bought an VisBoard tablet monitor witch is more cool than this Wacom tablet... lol

Cheers

[Abdulbosit]

hi everyone,

Mathboard: ASUStek M2N32-SLI DELUXE, Socket AM2, NVidia nForce 590-SLI
Prcessor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Mhz 5000+
Memory: DDR2-800 Transcend 2x1Gg
Video: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) 256Mhz-128bit

I work at this computer, for modeling orderly, but for Rendering much slowly.
for instance, this object with hair granting takes time beside 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

this only one frame, but if their will be 1000 or 10000 that on this much time leaves.

I too want buy other computer, but do not know what Intel, AMD or Macintosh?

[Guns&Roses]

Do as Abdulbosit said~

[kaczorefx]

Also think about a 100gb SSD for the boot drive - it really makes a difference.
The machine doesn't render faster but it really feels snappy during work.