Question What PC should I buy for 3d modelling and animation?

[ronisub48]

Hi,I want to buy a PC for 3d rendering/animation/modelling and I checked the site okazii and I 've found a few products of i3 and i5. Which should I buy?

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I have bought a ATI RADEON HD 8490 GPU and I would like to know if it fits with an i3 or i5 PC.
What are your opinions?

 

[ronisub48]

Anyone?

 

[Misgar]

What modelling software will you be using? That will dictate the choice of CPU, system RAM and GPU RAM.

Whatever you decide to buy, you will need a really powerful machine if you want to complete 3D rendering/animation/modelling projects in a reasonable amount of time.

Although probably well outside your budget, these are the type of systems used by professionals.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/3d-design-workstations/
https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/3d-design-workstations/blender/hardware-recommendations/

 

[ronisub48]

@Misgar
Blender,3dsMAX,MAYA

 

[miha2]

What's your budget? i3/i5 won't do any good, same with low-end GPU. You can render with no issues, just... much longer than on, say, i9/Ryzen 9. Just saying.

 

[Misgar]

Check the minimum system requirements for all the software packages you intend to run and then double the numbers (i.e. buy more system RAM, more CPU cores and more VRAM).

You might be able to get some versions of Blender to run on an old AMD HD8490 with only 1GB VRAM, but the same may not be true for the Autodesk products.

If you're unlucky, some programs will fail to start if they don't detect enough VRAM on the GPU.

A video card with 4GB or 8GB VRAM would be a much better choice.

https://cgcookie.com/posts/blender-...get-started-with-blender#minimum-requirements

https://www.autodesk.com/support/te...stem-Requirements-for-Autodesk-Maya-2024.html

https://www.autodesk.com/support/te...quirements-for-Autodesk-3ds-Max-products.html

 

[DSzymborski]

I cannot imagine doing any work on an HD 8490 being anything but a miserable experience. Even GPUs you can find used for almost nothing like the GT 730 are far more powerful than that, and you certainly wouldn't want to do modeling on a GPU like that, either. The 8490 was released more than a decade ago just for basic PC functionality.

As for compatibility, that has nothing to do with the CPU. It comes down to whether the *motherboard* has the correct PCIE port, whether you have BIOS/UEFI on that motherboard, and whether there are size constraints with the motherboard and case.

For the PC, it depends on what your budget is. But definitely avoid all the small form-factor options, some of those will limit your upgradeability of your GPU forever by not being able to fit halfway-decent ones. And some of the very cheapest ones may not even have a PCIE slot, since these are old prebuilts.