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insaneYLN

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Hello Friends :smile:
A big hello from me, all the way from England!
:wave:

Which would be a decent processor, graphics card and the amount of memory (RAM) to run an an animation software such as LightWave 3D developed by NewTek, flawlessly?

With regards to the processor, would it be safe to presume that a quad core would suffice?
Also, is a single graphics card sufficient?
:?

Thank you all for your patience.
 
Tenida

Tenida

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Intel Core i5 2500k-10.4k
MSI Z68A GD55 B3-10.3k
Gskill Ripjaws X F3-12800CL9S-8GBXL-3.3k
AMD FirePro V4800-9.5k
Seagate 250GB HDD-3.4K
Corsair TX650V2-5.4k
 
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Cilus

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Tenida, I think Core i7 2600 or 2600K is a better choice because of the Hyper Threading. Most of the Animation software is heavily multi threaded and can take benefit of the simultaneous 8 thread capability of 2600K.
 
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insaneYLN

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Thank you for your responses my Friends. :smile:

Are customary desktop graphic cards such as Radeon or GeForce not suitable for animation softwares? Will only a FirePro or a Quadro suffice?

Is there a day and night difference between desktop graphic cards and workstation graphic cards?

Awaiting your expertise.
 
Cilus

Cilus

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insaneYLN said:
Thank you for your responses my Friends. :smile:

Are customary desktop graphic cards such as Radeon or GeForce not suitable for animation softwares? Will only a FirePro or a Quadro suffice?

Is there a day and night difference between desktop graphic cards and workstation graphic cards?

Awaiting your expertise.
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Gaming gfx cards can help your 3D applications too; but the performance won't be comparable with the comparative work station cards. Although gaming cards and the workstation cards do have same piece of hardware with some minor differences, the driver for the gaming cards are designed for very fast processing which is required in gaming n the price of low accuracy whereas drivers for the workstation cards are designed to provide high degree of accuracy in rendering work sacrificing the speed of processing. So Workstation cards provide far better and accurate rendering performance for generation 3D models and other stuffs.

If you are in a tight budget and gaming is also in your requirement list then you can opt for a gaming card which obviously provide you some performance boost in 3D rendering applications but not comparable with a Workstation card's performance.

Try to get a GTX 560 (Non Ti) from Zotac, MSI or Asus. Will be available around 10 to 11K.
 
Tenida

Tenida

Gadget Freak
Cilus said:
Tenida, I think Core i7 2600 or 2600K is a better choice because of the Hyper Threading. Most of the Animation software is heavily multi threaded and can take benefit of the simultaneous 8 thread capability of 2600K.
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@Cilus-Ok Look at this config

Intel Core i7 2600K-15.9k
MSI Z68A GD55 B3-10.3k
Gskill Ripjaws X F3-12800CL9S-8GBXL-3.3k
AMD FirePro V4800-9.5k
Seagate 250GB HDD-3.4K
Corsair TX650V2-5.4k

or

Intel Core i7 2600K-15.9k
MSI Z68A GD55 B3-10.3k
Gskill Ripjaws X F3-12800CL9S-8GBXL-3.3k
*MSI GTX560(without Ti) or MSI GTX560Ti hawk
Seagate 250GB HDD-3.4K
Corsair TX650V2-5.4k

*Choose that suites your budget
 
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insaneYLN

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Thank you very much for your suggestions my Friends. :)

Some more questions -
1] Is LightWave 3D compatible with a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora?

2] Does a 32-bit (x86) architecture of a Linux distribution have the same 3.25GB RAM limitation as Windows platforms of similar architecture?

Awaiting your responses.
 
Cilus

Cilus

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insaneYLN said:
Thank you very much for your suggestions my Friends. :)

Some more questions -
1] Is LightWave 3D compatible with a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora?

2] Does a 32-bit (x86) architecture of a Linux distribution have the same 3.25GB RAM limitation as Windows platforms of similar architecture?

Awaiting your responses.
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I am not suitable to answer your 1st question but can answer the 2nd one. Any 32 bit OS has the limitation of using 3.25GB memory. Because it can address maximum of 2^32 byte of memory location which is equivalent to 3.25 GB
 
rchi84

rchi84

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With Linux there are kernel mods called physical address extensions which can read more than 4gb but not sure about limIts of memory that can be read.
 
Cilus

Cilus

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physical address extensions or PAE is also present in Windows OS too, enabling use of 36 bit address space instead of 32 bit. But most of the companies disable this feature in their Motherboard BIOS unless it is a Server board or very high end one. So although Linux supports PAE, you can't break the 3GB barier with a normal Z68 board.
 
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insaneYLN

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Friends, what size monitor (and make preferably) would you recommend to use for a system that will be built for animation designing?
 
skeletor

skeletor

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insaneYLN said:
2] Does a 32-bit (x86) architecture of a Linux distribution have the same 3.25GB RAM limitation as Windows platforms of similar architecture?
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With a PAE - Physical Address Extensions enabled kernel, you can access more than 3.25 GB RAM on Linux. Same for Windows.

Cilus said:
physical address extensions or PAE is also present in Windows OS too, enabling use of 36 bit address space instead of 32 bit. But most of the companies disable this feature in their Motherboard BIOS unless it is a Server board or very high end one. So although Linux supports PAE, you can't break the 3GB barier with a normal Z68 board.
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I've ran 4 GB RAM on Linux kernel with PAE on normal Phenom II/Core 2 Duo motherboards. Haven't used on my Z68 motherboard though. Windows XP/Vista/7 32-bit with PAE is handicapped till 4 GB. Linux can go till 64 GB with PAE if the motherboard is happy.
 
Cilus

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That is my point; to enable PAE, the motherboard needs to support that mode. In Windows OS Microsoft deliberately put those restrictions of not breaking the 3GB barier, even with the PAE support in Motherboard.
Now if you can enable PAE through BIOS and the OS has support for it then you can use more than 4GB ram in a 32 bit OS.
 
Cilus

Cilus

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The best thing will be an IPS panel based 24" LCD display. Dell Ultrasharp 2312HM 23" 1080P display @ 15K is very much recommended. There is also an AOC IPS panel based display available around 11-12K. You can opt for that too.
 
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