Hi guys, need a bit of help building a pc for my sister. She's doing design at the moment and working with Maya and 3DS Max means she needs a reliable rig that can do rendering quick and efficiently. She does play TF2 every now and then but that's pretty much the only game she plays atm, but would like a rather decent gfx card for future gaming. Now with a budget of $1.5k for the tower alone, I'm sure you guys have plenty to work with here.
Cheers.
Building a PC for 3D rendering/gfx design
LolwutMikka on 03/06/2013 - 13:28
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Hmm, I'd say you'd also need a CPU Cooler too.
Can't give advice as to which one, but especially if you plan to overclock, you will need a CPU cooler
This system cannot overclock. The mobo is a budget one and the CPU is non-K. Hence, it doesn't require aftermarket cooling.
What can be improved though, is as others said is a workstation GPU, and probably a bit more RAM. I don't know jack all about workstation GPU's so perhaps someone else here can provide some advise on what to actually buy.
Many of the budget workstation cards I've seen online are fairly old and obsolete, yet stores still sell them.
Oh right. I didnt see it wasn't the K version.
If you're not planning to OC, then get the non-Z mobo. Z is for overclocking.
MSY has the H87-Pro4 for $99
Rendering video cards and video cards for games are two separate things.
Whilst you can render (reasonably well) on normal (gaming) video games, the Nvidia Quadro rendering cards will blitz everything.
Yeah the quadros are crazy with rendering and go for the lga2011, those i7's have lots of threads for good rendering, a bit pricey though :P
What's the difference between the HD series and GTX series?
Different companies make them. Ultimately they have a very similar range of products.
N-vidia Quadro cards r way over priced n slower then the AMD equivalent look at the fire pro series.
i would personally go with the - AMD FirePro W7000 4096MB PCIe x16
to match this rendering power on this car5d the Quadro card will b an extra $250with this card instead of the one recomanded above it would bring the above system to about 1500 to 1550
Isn't that card worth like $1100 by itself? It costs more than the entire system.
having just finished the Adv Dip of Screen and Media 3D Animation and VFX I would recommend running NVidia card due to the CUDA cores, will allow special real time plugins and some rendering engines using them. Although having said that in most cases your sister will most likely be rendering with Mental Ray which will take as much processing power you can give it. I personally run the AMD 8 core CPUs in my computers (bang for buck) however if you run down the intel road, i7 is the way to go.
Oh and the one thing people forget is screen real estate is everything with 3D Programs, in particular Maya, theres never enough. Look for stuff with over 1080 res I use 2 x 24" ASUS monitors with 1920x1200 res (MK241H they are a few years old now).
As for Scrimshaws recommendations, they are awesome although double the memory. There will most likely be be compositing in what your sister is doing and I can tell you now when you do multiple renderpasses each in 32bit EXR format it will chew through 8GB and then a lot more eg: 15 seconds of 1080 32bit EXR with 5 passes chewed through 14GB of memory using After Effects.
First I would definitely secure this bargain:
7850 for $145
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/105461
That card will be sufficient for gaming / 3d rendering. If playing newer games at 1080p then it may be worth investing a bit more into a MYST 7870.
For the rest:
CPU: Core i7-4770 Haswell $344
Board: LGA 1150 ASRock Z87M-PRO4 $128
RAM: 8GB DDR3 Any brand 1600mhz $64
HDD: Plextor SSD 128GB see http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/105498 $74
HDD2: Seagate 2TB Barracuda $92
Case: Coolermaster SGC1000KWN1 SGC-1000 $86
Power Supply: Corsair VS550 $61
Windows 7 / 8 64bit Home, Your choice OEM $99
Total Costs $1100