sakiskalogirou

Hey man, i would suggest you the following Cpu: Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz £229.99 Mob: Gigabyte X79-UD5 Intel X79 £229.99 Gfx: Buy a quadro/firepro Hdd: definitively an ssd for primary Ram: 12 - 16Gigs should be fine I have a dual xeon setup and am using a quadro 4000 it's stable and excellent viewport performance. The new generation cpu's from intel perform very well. Now about the graphic card since you are not interested in vray RT both nvidia and ati will do your job depends by your budget.

Here are my test results 3D max 2012 x64 shaded : 4.7 fps realistic : 4.1 fps shaded + Wireframe : 2.5 fps Wireframe : 2.6 fps ------------------------------- Hardware Used: Dual xeon E5520 CPU 12 Gb RAM Quadro 4000 GPU Crusial C300 256Gb SSD Tyan S7025 MOBO