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Hi, my friend is looking to buy a new PC for graphics designing, animation 3d modeling and stuff like that, he asked me to build one for him, but i have built only gaming rigs and have not much idea what is more important (frequency or cache, vram or clock speeds etc etc) for animation etc, so can someone who knows about these suggest a good build for a 30k (MAX) budget, it should include monitor as well, 30K Rupees is the absolute max, but aim for 20-25K range

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Hi, my friend is looking to buy a new PC for graphics designing, animation 3d modeling and stuff like that, he asked me to build one for him, but i have built only gaming rigs and have not much idea what is more important (frequency or cache, vram or clock speeds etc etc) for animation etc, so can someone who knows about these suggest a good build for a 30k (MAX) budget, it should include monitor as well, 30K Rupees is the absolute max, but aim for 20-25K range

Thanks in advance

In general - You want a large amount of RAM (8GB and up), and as many executing threads as possible (Ideally, a Core i7 980X, but that's very expensive, so a Phenom II X6 1090T is a good option. Dual CPU systems will also help cut down rendering times, but they tend to be on the OMFGExpensive side).

I am at work, so I can't spare the time to Google up prices in your region and make a full build.
 

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ohk, thanks for the reply,
what about the GPU? which would be better, one with 1-2 gb vram or a faster one with 512 mb vram?
 

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What programs does he intend to use?
 

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i am not sure, i will check with him and post later

Edit : How important is L2 cache for these purposes?

i just got a good deal on an athlon II x4 630 propus 2.8 ghz, but it has only 512kb l2 cache on each core
 

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If he is going to be doing very high precision drawing, you are going to want a cad card (Quaddro or FireGL). They are expensive, but superior in accuracy.
 

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i7 980 or Xeon X5680..you want hyperthreading. Plenty of memory, up to 24g. Quadro is nice with up to 4 gigs of memory, My 470 hangs with the workstation gpus for 1/4 the price. . The newest renderers are introducing RTR(Real Time Rendering).. These use Cuda technology and the cpu/gpu to render on the fly.
 

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i7 980 or Xeon X5680..you want hyperthreading. Plenty of memory, up to 24g. Quadro is nice with up to 4 gigs of memory, My 470 hangs with the workstation gpus for 1/4 the price. . The newest renderers are introducing RTR(Real Time Rendering).. These use Cuda technology and the cpu/gpu to render on the fly.

Fitseries system would be perfect for this application that he needs :)

 

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Get lots of ram too, 8GB is good. And don't skimp on the processor, it cuts rendering time drastically. Graphics card is only useful for real time rendering, like when you do a preview. Uncompressed animations take a lot of storage space too, keep that in mind. 6 second of uncompressed clip takes in ~180MB of space. My friend uses 3ds Max to make videos, and he is currently using my laptop to do all those renders because he broke his. Takes 6 hours to make a 5 second clip :S
 
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Get lots of ram too, 8GB is good. And don't skimp on the processor, it cuts rendering time drastically. Graphics card is only useful for real time rendering, like when you do a preview. Uncompressed animations take a lot of storage space too, keep that in mind. 6 second of uncompressed clip takes in ~180MB of space. My friend uses 3ds Max to make videos, and he is currently using my laptop to do all those renders because he broke his. Takes 6 hours to make a 5 second clip :S

I can second that: I was helping a friend of mine to create a 3D model of his Engineering degree's final project prototype. It was for a poster and we had to use huge textures and detailed models.

He is running 4GB of DDR3 and a Phenom II X3 710 and we pretty much killed the system by opening Lightwave and Photoshop at once and detailed rendering took ages. RAM and a good CPU are a must.
 

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I just noticed the price limit. 30000 rupees is only about $650. :/
 

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Thanks for the replies,
i dont know anything about workstations, which would be better between a quadro fx 580 512 mb and a gts 250/9800 gt?
 

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Can you please tell us where where you are going to buy your things so that we can take a look at the price list?
 

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What Rupees, Indian, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, or Pakistani?
 

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It depends. The cad cards have greater drawing accuracy at higher level of precision.
For instance, if you draw a circle and divide it with a line connected to the circle on both sides and then start zooming in on the intersection, the typical mainstream video cards will show the line disconnected from the circle at high levels of zoom. The cad cards will not.
 

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indian rupees,

Hmm k, so most probably, i'll be buying the fx 580, as he works a lot with those very high resolution images,
 

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Hmm k, so most probably, i'll be buying the fx 580, as he works a lot with those very high resolution images,

Get an AMD Athlon II X2 250 + nForce 620 combo for 5k, 4 GB of memory for 4k, GeForce GT 240 for 5k, build the rest of the system around it with whatever your market offers. It should fit into 30k. You won't need Quadro 90% of the time.
 

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Sorry, ntb, I was not really clear. High resolution and high accuracy are not the same.
Any good card will do high-res. If he is doing things like texures and modelling, then he will not need that level of accuracy. If he is drawing things that require accurate dimensioning to 1/10,000 of an inch he will.

See Bta's post above. He is right in that he most likely will not need the quaddro.
 

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Thanks for all the replies again,
i am not sure what kind of work he does, i'll find out what all softwares he is using and post again later tonight or tommorow, thanks again to everyone,
 
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