- Jul 1, 2009
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I am getting into 3d rendering lately and getting away from gaming. I am learning the hard way that a good gaming rig does not equal a good rig for this kind of work.
In the next year or so I will save to build a workstation rig that will be more capable of the tasks I am endeavoring to do, a dual xeon, 64 gigs of ram, NVIDIA workstation vid card, RAID 0 etc.
In the meantime I have to find ways to get the most out of my current rig which is:
AMD FX-6350 (I upgraded this recently, long story short I would have done an I5 but I thought I could re-use my old Phenom II 945 on my new mobo, didn't work out and I was stuck with the mobo, so I got the 6350)
Gigabyte 990 chipset mobo, can't remember the model #, not top of the line, but decent.
AMD 5830 GPU
Western DIgital Blue 500 Gig HDD
16 gigs of DDR3 1600
Corsair 750 PSU
Anyway I have more parts on the way, a friend is donating his old NVIDIA 570, and an Intel 520 128 gig SSD.
I am wondering what kind of performance improvement I can expect with the addition of that card and the SSD, for rendering in Poser, DAZ Studio and similar applications?
Also when I install the SSD, can I just unplug the current HDD, then install the OS onto the SSD and then it will be the book drive and use the old HDD as storage?
Additionally should I also get another SSD for faster storage and use the HDD for music, pics etc? I see that Newegg and Micro Center have Plextor M5 Pro's for pretty cheap, there is a Micro Center a few miles from where I work and I can get one of those tonight.
Thank you in advance for looking at this.
In the next year or so I will save to build a workstation rig that will be more capable of the tasks I am endeavoring to do, a dual xeon, 64 gigs of ram, NVIDIA workstation vid card, RAID 0 etc.
In the meantime I have to find ways to get the most out of my current rig which is:
AMD FX-6350 (I upgraded this recently, long story short I would have done an I5 but I thought I could re-use my old Phenom II 945 on my new mobo, didn't work out and I was stuck with the mobo, so I got the 6350)
Gigabyte 990 chipset mobo, can't remember the model #, not top of the line, but decent.
AMD 5830 GPU
Western DIgital Blue 500 Gig HDD
16 gigs of DDR3 1600
Corsair 750 PSU
Anyway I have more parts on the way, a friend is donating his old NVIDIA 570, and an Intel 520 128 gig SSD.
I am wondering what kind of performance improvement I can expect with the addition of that card and the SSD, for rendering in Poser, DAZ Studio and similar applications?
Also when I install the SSD, can I just unplug the current HDD, then install the OS onto the SSD and then it will be the book drive and use the old HDD as storage?
Additionally should I also get another SSD for faster storage and use the HDD for music, pics etc? I see that Newegg and Micro Center have Plextor M5 Pro's for pretty cheap, there is a Micro Center a few miles from where I work and I can get one of those tonight.
Thank you in advance for looking at this.
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