Advice on upgrading!

[IIINicky]

Ok so I've had my computer for just over a year and I've decided to upgrade! These are my current specs;
550W PSU
GTX 750TI GPU
AMD ATHLON X4 860k CPU
GIGABYTE F2A55M-HD2 MOBO
1TB Harddrive
120GB SSD

I'm moving into the area of animation and 3D Modeling, but I also play alot of games (Battlefield, CS:GO ect...) I know I have maxed out my CPU for my motherbaord so I had an Idea of upgrading my motherboard and CPU, and then change the graphics card and other important components later on. Storage isn't on the top of my list so I will upgrade that last. Any suggestions will help me! Thank you, Nicky

 

[Rohith_1]

I think your specs are good enough but upgrading your GPU to a GTX 970 OR 980 will be good

 

[Rogue Leader]

Animation and 3D modeling needs some serious GPU horsepower, and depending on the software you use won't just work with consumer GPUs.

How serious are you about this? Hobby or is this for school/work?

 

[IIINicky]

I think your specs are good enough but upgrading your GPU to a GTX 970 OR 980 will be good

Hi, thank you for your advice. Will there any bottlenecks? And is my CPU okay?

 

[IIINicky]

Animation and 3D modeling needs some serious GPU horsepower, and depending on the software you use won't just work with consumer GPUs.

How serious are you about this? Hobby or is this for school/work?

Hi there, From of now its my hobby but I want to go further. I'm currently in college and I want to get a HND in digital art.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Animation and 3D modeling needs some serious GPU horsepower, and depending on the software you use won't just work with consumer GPUs.

How serious are you about this? Hobby or is this for school/work?

Hi there, From of now its my hobby but I want to go further. I'm currently in college and I want to get a HND in digital art.

Are there any software suites you own yet?

For any serious work you don't have enough power both in cpu and gpu. depending where you're going with this you may not want to invest in a consumer GPU. You may want to try it out as is and then consider an upgrade to a real system for 3d modeling (using a Quadro or FirePro GPU)

 

[IIINicky]

Animation and 3D modeling needs some serious GPU horsepower, and depending on the software you use won't just work with consumer GPUs.

How serious are you about this? Hobby or is this for school/work?

Hi there, From of now its my hobby but I want to go further. I'm currently in college and I want to get a HND in digital art.

Are there any software suites you own yet?

For any serious work you don't have enough power both in cpu and gpu. depending where you're going with this you may not want to invest in a consumer GPU. You may want to try it out as is and then consider an upgrade to a real system for 3d modeling (using a Quadro or FirePro GPU)

The most demanding software we use is zbrush which uses alot of cpu (I think). We also use toon boom, flash, photoshop.

 

[mcconkeymike]

For animation and 3d modeling, you'll probably want a CPU with more cores. I would recommend either a Xeon with 4 cores/8 threads or an i7. I would also go with a higher clock speed for either chip. I do IT for engineers who do 3D CAD renderings and I built them a PC with an i7-4790k and a decent AMD Firepro video card, 16gb RAM, and a 240gb SSD for less than $1000 and they love it and say it will do everything they want. You can also game nicely on an i7 as well. For a PC that would game as well as render, you'll probably want to decide which is more important, gaming or rendering and buy a video card which leans toward the more important of the two. I'd go with at least a GTX 970 for gaming or a mid-upper Firepro for rendering.

 

[bkoop]

The GTX 1070 is scheduled to be released on June 10. Something you should know before buying a video card.