PC for 3d animation/3d rendering

[wolly]

Hi I have the same PC and I would like to know if it would run 3dsMAX of older versions(2017,2016,2018)

CPU A8 6500B

GPU R5 240

Radeon HD 8570D

RAM 12GB(11.2 GB usable)

Can I do animations with it?Can I make 3D scenes with particles, molecules?
What other software can I use to make scenes in 3d?AfterEffects,Maya,Cinema4d?
I know nothing of these softwares and I have no idea if my pc will work!
Can someone help me?

Anyone?

 

[Harlow]

I cannot see either of your graphics cards listed in this Adobe web page for 2017 3ds Max which mentions the HD7970, so you might be OK with the HD8570D:-
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/sites/default/files/file_downloads/3dsmax2017_GFX_ResultsDec2016.pdf

However, with an AMD A8-6500B FM2 CPU released in June 2013, you might be asking a bit much of such an old system. Best bet is to try running the software and see if it works or hangs the machine. I've no knowledge of any of the programs you mention, but I do have an A8-5600, an A10-5800K. and (I think) an A4-6300 running in various systems.

 

[DaemonForce]

That IGP is inferior to.....A lot. In 2009-2010 I maybe had some combination of Maya, AutoCAD, 3DSMax and a bunch of of ther 3D apps going from my HD3300 and that was a serious reach.
When you move up to these newer pieces of software, there are times that hardware support just drops. Not stagnates, just falls right off a cliff. HD series was one of those things that got hit hard when I moved to newer games and especially trying to do basic render jobs with semi-modern apps and web apps.

Running an HD3300 in current year is NOT a place you want to be for anything.
Same goes for the HD6570 that I used from 2013-2018 and even my RX 580 is long in the tooth but it still does the jobs.
There's also the other part to this situation where the card can run the render jobs but it's so insufferably bad that you'll put up the $$$ towards an accelerator.
Whatever it is, you're the one doing the render jobs with your hardware, which means you have the best compass for deciding if it's acceptable or not. Good luck.

 

[Sarajiel]

Can I do animations with it?Can I make 3D scenes with particles, molecules?
What other software can I use to make scenes in 3d?AfterEffects,Maya,Cinema4d?
I know nothing of these softwares and I have no idea if my pc will work!

Not to be negative here, but even for some amateur level 3D modeling and animation, you'd probably need at least something like AMD's Zen2 or a 12th-gen Intel CPU with 8 or more cores, unless you want to render for days, not to mention a decent amount of RAM (32+ GB). A somewhat current Nvidia GPU usually helps as well, a decent budget option for someone who still learns, but wants to take it seriously, would probably be an RTX 3060 12GB or an RTX 4060 TI 16GB.

For 3D modeling and animation software, stick to Blender if you are just starting, there are enough good tutorials out there, and it's FOSS.
If you want to try motion graphics and 3D compositing, the free version of DaVinci Resolve offers a decent starting point since it's free as in free beer, but you don't get all the fancy stuff that's included in the paid version.