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Professionally, I've spent a lot of time using CAD since the early 80s and solid modeling since the mid-90s. Personally, I also do a lot of video rendering and hope to move into the Ai enhancement side of programs like DaVinci Resolve.
My "daily driver" - for email, office programs, web browsing, light editing - has been a PC I put together in 2012 in a Corsair R500 using a ASUS P8Z68-VPRO, a Intel i5-2500K CPU, 16 GB of RAM, and a Radeon 7770 GPU. I've done any heavy lifting with repurposed workstations that have Xeon CPUs and NVidia Quadro GPUs.
With the last iteration of Prime Day Deals on Amazon, I decided it was finally time to overhaul my daily driver. So far, I've picked up the following:
Motherboard ASUS ROG Z690-F
CPU Intel i7-12700K (was KF)
RAM Corsair Vengeance DDR5 32 GB (2x 16 GB)
NVMe M.2 WD Black Gen 4 1 TB SN770
PSU Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 750W 80+ Gold 10-year warranty
Cooler DeepCool AK400 (hopefully it will fit in the tight space provided)
I have yet to select a GPU because it's hard to get information that's pertinent to me when so much focus seems to be on resolutions, quality settings, and framerates for various video games. I rarely game and when I do it's always on a console connected to a TV.
In my experience, the NVidia Quadro series of GPUs have done a great job of working with complex models (in solid modeling) and encoding, re-encoding video, but it looks like those have been largely replaced by the RTX A series GPUs which seem to be outside my budget of up to $500 (preferably $400) for the GPU.
So, with my biggest concern being rendering speeds for Ai enhancement - with modeling performance a distant second - what kinds of GPUs should I be considering in the sub-$500 range? Or is it not going to make much of a difference.
Thanks!
Edit: I've returned the i7-12700KF CPU and purchased the i7-12700K after learning that the integrated graphics can be efficiently utilized by many editors.
My "daily driver" - for email, office programs, web browsing, light editing - has been a PC I put together in 2012 in a Corsair R500 using a ASUS P8Z68-VPRO, a Intel i5-2500K CPU, 16 GB of RAM, and a Radeon 7770 GPU. I've done any heavy lifting with repurposed workstations that have Xeon CPUs and NVidia Quadro GPUs.
With the last iteration of Prime Day Deals on Amazon, I decided it was finally time to overhaul my daily driver. So far, I've picked up the following:
Motherboard ASUS ROG Z690-F
CPU Intel i7-12700K (was KF)
RAM Corsair Vengeance DDR5 32 GB (2x 16 GB)
NVMe M.2 WD Black Gen 4 1 TB SN770
PSU Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 750W 80+ Gold 10-year warranty
Cooler DeepCool AK400 (hopefully it will fit in the tight space provided)
I have yet to select a GPU because it's hard to get information that's pertinent to me when so much focus seems to be on resolutions, quality settings, and framerates for various video games. I rarely game and when I do it's always on a console connected to a TV.
In my experience, the NVidia Quadro series of GPUs have done a great job of working with complex models (in solid modeling) and encoding, re-encoding video, but it looks like those have been largely replaced by the RTX A series GPUs which seem to be outside my budget of up to $500 (preferably $400) for the GPU.
So, with my biggest concern being rendering speeds for Ai enhancement - with modeling performance a distant second - what kinds of GPUs should I be considering in the sub-$500 range? Or is it not going to make much of a difference.
Thanks!
Edit: I've returned the i7-12700KF CPU and purchased the i7-12700K after learning that the integrated graphics can be efficiently utilized by many editors.
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