Hey guys,
My friend wanted me to recommend him some parts, so I compiled a quick list of them. Before I give it to him, I just wanted to check that this is all good.
He doesn't need any peripherals or an operating system, and is reusing a disk drive. He isn't allowed to play games on PCs (his stepdad appears to be the worst sort of tech illiterate, thinking consoles are the only thing for games) but he wants to learn 3D modelling and animation (which he is apparently allowed to do...), which requires some resources, hence the (low range) graphics card and 4gb RAM.
The price really isn't set in stone, he said he has some more he can spend if necessary, but keeping it around 500 is preferred.
Here's the list so far: [url]http://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/wombatninja/saved/1Oid[/url]
I live in Australia, so a lot of the items available overseas aren't here.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Budget?
-Get a normal ATX board, Micro atx can have issues with crosstalk.
-That GPU sucks. Even for 3d mofeling I would not touch it.
4 GB of Ram and a 320 GB HDD? Yeah this rig is not designed for 3D modeling. In my experience when the purpose is modeling the requirements go UP from that of gaming, not down. I suppose if your not rendering these animations, you have less requirements, but the preferred specifications are usually something to the effect of:
-16 GB, that's right, 16 GB of RAM
-i7 preferred (this is supposed to be the main reason for getting hyper threading)
-A decent graphics card, anything from a 650 Ti to a 770
But if you must have a low budget machine and don't expect to do any rendering just listen to taipan and don't expect to have a lot of programs running at the same time.
I'd also like to add my [U]integrated[/U] graphics are on par with the 620 (granted the 4600 graphics got a big improvement, but they are still integrated graphics).
Alright, updated with a normal ATX mobo and a 650.
And I run blender absolutely fine with my gt430 and old x4 phenom.
He isn't going to be doing anything serious, he just wants to learn how to model. I don't even think he'll render much, probably just save his models as .blends.
[QUOTE=DwarfOverlord;41458906]Alright, updated with a normal ATX mobo and a 650.
And I run blender absolutely fine with my gt430 and old x4 phenom.
He isn't going to be doing anything serious, he just wants to learn how to model. I don't even think he'll render much, probably just save his models as .blends.[/QUOTE]
Then he really shouldn't need much.
It could be way cheaper.
In my opinion, he should go with something that would be the equivalent of a Steam Box. For something that isn't game or seriously gonna be using ram (rendering speed shouldn't matter nor should graphic card in this case so why waste money on it?).
[url]http://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/simonheros/saved/1XDj[/url]
My build has an APU (I know I know) but it's an A10. It should hold itself for what he wants.
Includes 8 GB of ram and 1 TB of storage.
If he doesn't really download anything, I would spend less money on the storage.
I wouldn't buy this build unless this stuff is on sale, but it's an idea.
[QUOTE=flayne;41457456]4 GB of Ram and a 320 GB HDD? Yeah this rig is not designed for 3D modeling. In my experience when the purpose is modeling the requirements go UP from that of gaming, not down. I suppose if your not rendering these animations, you have less requirements, but the preferred specifications are usually something to the effect of:
-16 GB, that's right, 16 GB of RAM
-i7 preferred (this is supposed to be the main reason for getting hyper threading)
-A decent graphics card, anything from a 650 Ti to a 770
But if you must have a low budget machine and don't expect to do any rendering just listen to taipan and don't expect to have a lot of programs running at the same time.
I'd also like to add my [U]integrated[/U] graphics are on par with the 620 (granted the 4600 graphics got a big improvement, but they are still integrated graphics).[/QUOTE]
Not really. Basic 3d modeling can be done on shit pc's, very easily.
Ok I spoke to him again; he is going to reuse his hard drive as well, so that saves a bit.
He says that he will dabble in 3D modelling every so often, but he's definitely going to be pretty casual with it, and he won't render anything. I updated the list once more, going back down to a 640 and taking away the hard drive. Will he benefit from the 4GB RAM as opposed to 2? Or would it be a good choice to go down to 2?
[QUOTE=DwarfOverlord;41463931]Will he benefit from the 4GB RAM as opposed to 2? Or would it be a good choice to go down to 2?[/QUOTE]
I would try to have as much RAM as possible, so 4 GB.
In this day and age, RAM is going to get used constantly to run more and more programs in the future.
I would suggest the minimum of 8 GB, but that's just me.
I would recommend always having 8 GBs of RAM.
Also, you could always look at AMD with a 6 core Vishera for around the same cost.
And you should look at AMD cards, don't underestimate the power of AMD :D
My friend will not need 8GB of ram, especially since he isn't able to play games, and will not be rendering anything in Blender (just sort of modelling stuff and learning how to use it).
I looked at AMD cpus, but at the moment, the i3 I chose appears to perform better in benchmarks. Not to mention, AMDs 6 cores are actually tri cores. And I just looked at the AMD cards and have decided a 7750 might be a good option :)
The 7750 is a pretty solid card, and if your friend wanted to dabble in a little gaming, he could.
Synthetic benchmarks don't tell the whole story...
FX 6300/6350 performs much better in multi threaded tasks than an i3 and for 145-160$ you can buy FX 8320. Since this guy is on a budget and if he is doing multi threading/tasking at average of four threads or cores then FX 4300/4350 are good and an FX 6300/6350 is great.
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