PC config for 3D Modeling, Animation, Rendering with Zbrush, Maya, Keyshot...
1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Ans: Workstation PC for 3D modeling,animation,rendering. Apps which I'm going to run include Maya, ZBrush, Keyshot and ofcourse Photoshop for digital painting. And also casual gaming!
2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans: Around 45K.
3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: Yes.
4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Windows 8 & higher.
5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: None. I have Seagate 1TB SSHD.
6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans: No. I have Samsung 22 inch monitor (SA300).
7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans:
Currently, I'm using my laptop (samsung np300e5z-a0min) connected to the monitor for dual screen advantage.
Monitor: Samsung 22 inch SA300
Wireless KB+Mouse: Microsoft wireless desktop 800
UPS: APC 1100VA
SMPS: Seasonic S12II 520W
HDD: Seagate SSHD 1TB
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212x
DVD Writer: Asus DRW-24D3ST
8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: During next 2 months. CPU in January, MB,RAM,Case in Feb!! GPU later.
9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: Yes
10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: Hyderabad. I prefer to buy online. I purchased all the above components (except the monitor) on Snapdeal this month. It was an awesome shopping experience!! I got all of them delivered well n good at a discount price by using coupons!!
11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: I only need CPU, MB, RAM and a Case to build my PC. Rest of the components I bought them already online for 19K. I have gone through many tech forums including Digit for PC configs. And I have come up with this config for the following components:
CPU: Intel I7 4790k
Motherboard: Asus Z97-A
RAM: HyperX Fury 8GB 1866 C10
Case: Cooler master N500 or Corsair 300R. I did search for Deepcool Tesseract but it's out of stock everywhere!
GPU: Nvidia 750TI or Asus R7 265 ( not included in this budget, but willing to buy later on )
Some questions regarding this config:
1. I work with Maya a lot. You know that Maya's viewport 2.0 is GPU based. Now will this IGPU (HD 4600) offer decent performance inside Maya's viewport 2.0 ? I'm going to learn and practice dynamics simulations inside Maya in coming months.
2. I would buy a GPU later on. Which one would you suggest for 3D apps like Maya? Should I go for Quadro/Firepro or GTX/Radeon? Also I don't want to SLI/Crossfire coz I heard that there are of no use for Maya. Right now I work with Mental ray, Vray, Keyshot which are CPU based. But in future I'm going to be working on GPU based renderers like Vray RT, Arnold. So..
1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Ans: Workstation PC for 3D modeling,animation,rendering. Apps which I'm going to run include Maya, ZBrush, Keyshot and ofcourse Photoshop for digital painting. And also casual gaming!
2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans: Around 45K.
3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: Yes.
4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Windows 8 & higher.
5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: None. I have Seagate 1TB SSHD.
6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans: No. I have Samsung 22 inch monitor (SA300).
7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans:
Currently, I'm using my laptop (samsung np300e5z-a0min) connected to the monitor for dual screen advantage.
Monitor: Samsung 22 inch SA300
Wireless KB+Mouse: Microsoft wireless desktop 800
UPS: APC 1100VA
SMPS: Seasonic S12II 520W
HDD: Seagate SSHD 1TB
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212x
DVD Writer: Asus DRW-24D3ST
8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: During next 2 months. CPU in January, MB,RAM,Case in Feb!! GPU later.
9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: Yes
10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: Hyderabad. I prefer to buy online. I purchased all the above components (except the monitor) on Snapdeal this month. It was an awesome shopping experience!! I got all of them delivered well n good at a discount price by using coupons!!
11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: I only need CPU, MB, RAM and a Case to build my PC. Rest of the components I bought them already online for 19K. I have gone through many tech forums including Digit for PC configs. And I have come up with this config for the following components:
CPU: Intel I7 4790k
Motherboard: Asus Z97-A
RAM: HyperX Fury 8GB 1866 C10
Case: Cooler master N500 or Corsair 300R. I did search for Deepcool Tesseract but it's out of stock everywhere!
GPU: Nvidia 750TI or Asus R7 265 ( not included in this budget, but willing to buy later on )
Some questions regarding this config:
1. I work with Maya a lot. You know that Maya's viewport 2.0 is GPU based. Now will this IGPU (HD 4600) offer decent performance inside Maya's viewport 2.0 ? I'm going to learn and practice dynamics simulations inside Maya in coming months.
2. I would buy a GPU later on. Which one would you suggest for 3D apps like Maya? Should I go for Quadro/Firepro or GTX/Radeon? Also I don't want to SLI/Crossfire coz I heard that there are of no use for Maya. Right now I work with Mental ray, Vray, Keyshot which are CPU based. But in future I'm going to be working on GPU based renderers like Vray RT, Arnold. So..
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