Dashinuke
01-05-2009, 04:11 PM
Hey guys,
I'm looking for a new PC. The main activities are going to be Matchmoving (Boujou/PFtrack/Matchmover), 3D (Maya, lightning, Mental Ray rendering), and (somewhat heavy) compositing in After effects. It's not that I need the newest ultimate rendersystem, but atm I just have an old laptop and and even older PC, so I'm just looking for a new PC with a maximum budget of €1000/1100 euro
Now my first question is, which hardware component will be the most important for these activities, the CPU, the RAM of the Video card ? Or does it differ per activity ?
Secondly, I don't prefer to randomly ordering components and assemble it myself, so I'm looking for a pre-build system. I am now looking at the Dell site, and I came across the studio XPS system.
It has the Intel Core i7 processor, and DDR3 RAM memory. I'm not an expert at hardware, but I've read around a bit and since DDR3 and the i7 are pretty new, I think those specs are okay:
-Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 920 (2,66 GHz, 8 MB cache, 4,8 GT/sec.)
-4.096 MB 1.067 MHz Tri Channel DDR3 (4 x 1.024) (can be upgraded to 6 GB and 8 GB)
I'm only concerned about the video card. The best I can select is the "512MB ATI Radeon HD 4850".
The system I have selected now has the above components, and will cost €1040. So my main questions are:
- Are the cpu and ram okay ?
- Will the videocard do or do I really need a workstation videocard ?
Thanks for the help!
- Dashinuke
I'm looking for a new PC. The main activities are going to be Matchmoving (Boujou/PFtrack/Matchmover), 3D (Maya, lightning, Mental Ray rendering), and (somewhat heavy) compositing in After effects. It's not that I need the newest ultimate rendersystem, but atm I just have an old laptop and and even older PC, so I'm just looking for a new PC with a maximum budget of €1000/1100 euro
Now my first question is, which hardware component will be the most important for these activities, the CPU, the RAM of the Video card ? Or does it differ per activity ?
Secondly, I don't prefer to randomly ordering components and assemble it myself, so I'm looking for a pre-build system. I am now looking at the Dell site, and I came across the studio XPS system.
It has the Intel Core i7 processor, and DDR3 RAM memory. I'm not an expert at hardware, but I've read around a bit and since DDR3 and the i7 are pretty new, I think those specs are okay:
-Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 920 (2,66 GHz, 8 MB cache, 4,8 GT/sec.)
-4.096 MB 1.067 MHz Tri Channel DDR3 (4 x 1.024) (can be upgraded to 6 GB and 8 GB)
I'm only concerned about the video card. The best I can select is the "512MB ATI Radeon HD 4850".
The system I have selected now has the above components, and will cost €1040. So my main questions are:
- Are the cpu and ram okay ?
- Will the videocard do or do I really need a workstation videocard ?
Thanks for the help!
- Dashinuke