GregSteel Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Hi Folks, I'm sure some of you can help.. My boss has finally agreed to upgrade my PC from the standard 3gHz P4 with a gig & a half Ram to something more adequate. I'm hoping some of you more experienced guys & girls may be able to give me some advise as to what to purchase. Like where should most of the money be spent. CPU (twin xeons or something) graphics card (nvidia or ati) and Ram. Everybody seems to have a different opinion on how much ram is sufficient, i think 2GB should be adequate but how knows. Not exactly sure what the budget is going to be but i'm guessing as little as possible somewhere between £50-£3000. Also i think we are going to buy Vray (WooHoo) does anyone know if you can network render on a single license and if not do you have to pay full wack for additional nodes. I'm not very experienced at system specing so any help appreciated Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 my suggestion would be a Dual Core AMD (Athlon x2 4800+ or similar) at least 2GB RAM and hi end Graphics card if you're working on heavy scenes (ATI Radeon x1900 512mb) This is the base of a system i spec'd about feb time....i thought it was as good as could be got without having to pay over the odds for newly released hardware etc. it'll be cheaper again given 5 months has passed, maybe in the region of £1200 now from CCL?? vray allows network rendering (backburner and DR) on a single license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregSteel Posted June 21, 2006 Author Share Posted June 21, 2006 Thanks for your reply Jat, your the 3rd or 4th person that has advised me Dual Core AMD 4800's. Do AMD chips out perform the equvilant pentiums or is this a cost thing. Also whos' CLL. If anyone else wants to throw in there tuppence worth i'm all ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 The AMD's are definately leading the field on dual core at the moment and are probably cheaper too, i'm sure you could probably build an intel machine that would match the AMD version but what it'd cost i'm not sure......AMD's the way to go in a desktop at the min from my knowledge. CCL are a large trade based supplier based in west yorkshire. have a look at their website - http://www.cclcomputers.com - and see what you think, i have always found them to be as cheap as anywhere else overall, they supply nationwide i'd have thought......i feel its better buying from these than via a middle man who's gonna put his fee on top too etc. The other place i tend to look is http://www.overclockers.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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