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New PC Specs advice

bobety316_c50224ad1fbobety316_c50224ad1f Posts: 75
edited June 6 in The Commons

Hi, I was thinking of investing in this pc. I usually get mine from this company as they have great payment options.

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/acer-predator-orion-7000-po7650-gaming-pc-intel-core-i9-rtx-4090-2-tb-ssd-10252672.html

 

I have a nividia 3600 card at the moment and I'm looking to increase my realtime render speeds (love this feature), my actual render speed (I can get decent results in about 2mins rendering time) and animation speed. Think I'd notice a big difference with this? 

 

Many thanks

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,683

    Hmm

    For use with DS it looks a bit underspecced in two areas to me.

    The storage is 2Tb, which seems a bit light from reading other people's usage, but you know your usage.

    The RAM is a bit light too. Iray really works best with RAM being no less than about 3x the VRAM, otherwise it doesn't seem able to take full advantage of the whole VRAM. So even 64Gb would be a bit on the low side.

    Can I suggest you try speccing a machine at PCSpecialist yourself. I did and was pleased with the result. The price wasn't excessive for what I got, but I did get a machine tailored for DS in a way I couldn't from a normal retailer. In comparison to the 3D cad machines at work, my DS machine is an over muscled brute. And I could ensure that happened with PCS.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • bobety316_c50224ad1fbobety316_c50224ad1f Posts: 75

    richardandtracy said:

    Hmm

    For use with DS it looks a bit underspecced in two areas to me.

    The storage is 2Tb, which seems a bit light from reading other people's usage, but you know your usage.

    The RAM is a bit light too. Iray really works best with RAM being no less than about 3x the VRAM, otherwise it doesn't seem able to take full advantage of the whole VRAM. So even 64Gb would be a bit on the low side.

    Can I suggest you try speccing a machine at PCSpecialist yourself. I did and was pleased with the result. The price wasn't excessive for what I got, but I did get a machine tailored for DS in a way I couldn't from a normal retailer. In comparison to the 3D cad machines at work, my DS machine is an over muscled brute. And I could ensure that happened with PCS.

    Regards,

    Richard

     

     

    Many thanks, may I ask what specs you went for and how much it cost? 

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,683
    edited June 6

    It was Christmas 22.

    Machine an I5-13600KS/64Gb RAM/Raid mirror 2x 3Tb HDD (3Tb usable)/RTX3060 650WPSU/125W CPU cooler/DVD/Win11 home. £1750 at the time. Took 3 weeks to deliver.

    HTH,

    Richard

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  • bobety316_c50224ad1fbobety316_c50224ad1f Posts: 75

    Or maybe this one? 

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJ36FB73?tag=track-ect-uk-1430464-21&linkCode=osi&th=1&ascsubtag=ecSEP19uaiskjlx39gde1

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,683

    Looks like better VFM than the one from Currys. However, that's probably as far as my competence goes. Ticks the boxes I would have, but I must say I've not studied PC specs since I bought mine. Does look pretty...

    Regards,

    Richard

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024
    edited June 6

    There was no real information about the motherboard on the Curry's offer, but they do mention that it can hold only up to 64GB's of RAM... I would pass as that indicates the expandability on that motherboard would be somewhat limited.

    There is no need to get C-drive bigger than 1TB, one doesn't want to store anything of value on that drive, just the OS and programs.
    One could get another internal SSD drive for miscellaneous storage, but for Daz Content Libraries, external 4TB+ USB drive would be a good start.

    One should have three times as much RAM as VRAM, or in this case minimum 64GB's

    Edit; Forgot... Get the Pro version of Windows

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,683

    Is the pro version of Windows really needed any more? Never completely sure myself. 

    The home edition can support 128Mb RAM, and up to 64 cores in 1 cpu. Currently not generally an issue - for me (I have to say). May be different for others.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    richardandtracy said:

    Is the pro version of Windows really needed any more? Never completely sure myself. 

    The home edition can support 128Mb RAM, and up to 64 cores in 1 cpu. Currently not generally an issue - for me (I have to say). May be different for others.

    Don't know about W11, but in W7 and W10, the users with home versions have not had the same possibilities to control the OS and knowing MS and where they are taking the OS, I would never buy the home version.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321

    The newest and most expensive isn't always the best (for an individual case).

    What system do you have now?
    What about your workflow do you wish to improve?

    I build creator computers, and always speak in depth with a customer about
    what they want a new system to do. Very rarely do they need a top-spec-everything
    machine, sometimes just a new component will get them where they want to be.

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