Recent content by kurthalamue

Thanks for your thoughts.

I have been planning out this build to purchase over the holiday season and just got a surprise bonus from work of $500. Where would it be best to upgrade or should I keep and enjoy being able to afford it all better? My current build is below and will be used for Architecture, 3D modeling...

Going with the K makes sense. Thanks.

I am upgrading from a PC built in 2015 would like to have another opinion before I go ahead with this build. I will be using it primarily for Architecture, 3D Modeling, Rendering and gaming. I currently have a monitor that is 1080p but might upgrade that too before too long. The purchase would...

Thank you for both of your input.

I built this back in December 2015 with the plan to upgrade it every so often but marriage, school, career, more school, kids, pets.... life has been happening so that never happened. I have been very pleased with it but have noticed that newer games have begun to have very low frame rates, it...

I have just rendered the same file three times in three different places and do not understand the resulting times. New Desktop with the file saved on the SSD: 5 min New Desktop with the file saved on the HDD: 32 min Old Laptop only has HDD: 28 min How could this be? Below are the specs for...

I have recently completed a new build of a pc to be used for architecture work and some gaming and have been testing it out using some Rhino models and rendering through Vray. I am getting very large differences between rendering using the SSD and HDD. The same file saved to the C drive (ssd)...

Thank you both for your thoughts. It kept bothering me so so I decided that I would remount the cpu fan to face the back instead of up. Good thing I did because I am an idiot. If you ever wanted to know the impact of that thin protective plastic sheet that covers the contact of the heat sink...

I just completed my first build and tested it rendering a project that I had done previously. Render time was greatly improved from 1/2 hr to 5 min but the cpu temp reached 82 deg C. I measured this using speccy and HWmonitor. Compared to the old computer this is still better. It reached 95...

I have made my choice going with the Asus

I am building my own computer and will be using it for rendering and architecture work (CAD, 3D modeling) and also for gaming. I originally was looking at the ultra wide LG. I couldn't go bigger than the 25" due to the budget but after more research it looks like I might have issues with some...