http://forums.cgsociety.org CGTalk, the CGSociety's official forum for digital artists 120 en-us http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1107934 Posted By: MisterS
Post Time: 05-20-2013 at 01:35 AM
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I currently have two computers one, workstation, one node. Both running Win7 64.

Workstation:

AMD Phenom II 6-core 1090T 3.2GHz stock
32GB RAM
GTX580
SSDs

Node:

AMD Bulldozer 8-core 8350FX 4.0GHz stock
16GB RAM
HDDS
older graphics card.

So they're running pretty good at the moment i.e. they work - would it be a no brainer to put together another node of the same spec or am I missing a trick somewhere?

Primarily for Max DBR and network rendering with mr. In future for compositing.

Rekon I could build for about $800-900 bucks using the odd part I have laying around (if I went with regular type PC using AMD but most of my components are pretty old skool.]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 20:35:55 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1107812 Posted By: Shadowtrixz
Post Time: 05-19-2013 at 07:33 AM
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Hello so a family member unfortunately got into an accident about a year ago and just won a settlement for a decent amount of money. Some of that money is going to me and I wanted to use it to buy an actual computer rig suitable for 3ds max (I will be rendering some large scenes and some animation).

I currently have an alienware desktop and laptop which I use for gaming and some 3dsmax when I'm up for it but I could really enhance the experience with a better computer. So i was wondering if you guys could suggest a computer build/website/anything to help me with this computer.

My approx budget is $5,000 USD but I could go higher if necessary. Please feel free to post your Rig if they are well construed to professional (or close enough) standards.
And its for personal use (hobby)]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 02:33:57 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1107540 Posted By: bishopkelley86
Post Time: 05-17-2013 at 06:00 PM
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I am looking to build a decent PC for working in C4D R13 Studio, Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. Most anything would be better than the 2 year old Presario CQ57 I am working with now, but here is my cart list from newegg... what do you guys think?


-Refurbished HP L1710 Silver 17" 5ms LCD Monitor ($55.99)
-Rosewill R519-BK ATX Mid Tower w/500W Power Supply (69.99)
-Mouse and Keyboard (39.99)
-Ballistix 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM (40.99)
-AMD A6-3670K Unlocked Llano 2.7GHz Socket FM1 100W Quad-Core APU (79.00)
-Samsung 840 Series MZ-7TD120BW 2.5" 120GB Sata III SSD (99.99)

-AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0 GHz Socket AM3+ 125W 8-Core (370.00 for this and the following)
-Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AM3+ AMD 760G Motherboard
-Western Digital WD10EZEX 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0GB/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
-Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM

SubTotal $756.94
Shipping $20.87
Total $777.81

Also looking into cheap but usable graphics tablets, if anybody has any suggestions.

Thanks for your time.]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:34 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1107538 Posted By: bishopkelley86
Post Time: 05-17-2013 at 05:49 PM
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I am looking to build a decent PC for working in C4D R13 Studio, Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. Most anything would be better than the 2 year old Presario CQ57 I am working with now, but here is my cart list from newegg... what do you guys think?


-Refurbished HP L1710 Silver 17" 5ms LCD Monitor ($55.99)
-Rosewill R519-BK ATX Mid Tower w/500W Power Supply (69.99)
-Mouse and Keyboard (39.99)
-Ballistix 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM (40.99)
-AMD A6-3670K Unlocked Llano 2.7GHz Socket FM1 100W Quad-Core APU (79.00)
-Samsung 840 Series MZ-7TD120BW 2.5" 120GB Sata III SSD (99.99)

-AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0 GHz Socket AM3+ 125W 8-Core (370.00 for this and the following)
-Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AM3+ AMD 760G Motherboard
-Western Digital WD10EZEX 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0GB/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
-Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM

SubTotal $756.94
Shipping $20.87
Total $777.81

Also looking into cheap but usable graphics tablets, if anybody has any suggestions.

Thanks for your time.]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 12:49:29 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1107406 Posted By: jezuswashere
Post Time: 05-16-2013 at 09:45 PM
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Hello,

me and my father are trying to turn my old acer pc into something more suitable for 3D modelling.

At my school we use Maya, ,Photoshop, Zbrush, , Mudbox, Houdini, and every once in a while we might use Vegas, After effects and Audacity.
I'm currently using a asus K53s laptop, but I'd like to have a backup PC for when things go wrong.

Right now we plan to use the following hardware:

Motherboard: Asus P8H77-V LE,s1155
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770, s1155
Ram: Corsair ValueSelect DDR3,1600-16GB KIT
Power supply: Corsair TX 650WATT


This is the PC's current graphics card:

nVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS (G86)


Neither of us have any clue on what video card would be best suited for me.
We've collected a small list of graphics cards that fit within our budget:

MSI N650Ti-1GD5V1
Club 3D GeForce GT 640
Club 3D Radeon HD 7750


Could anyone tell us if any of these would suffice?

Thanks!]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 16:45:30 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1107349 Posted By: Kayzer
Post Time: 05-16-2013 at 04:43 PM
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Hey,

I'm looking to buy a laptop (my budget is 2500$-3500$) which will operate smoothly with softwares like Maya, After Effects, NUKE..

Not for heavy work like simulations and 4K shots compositing, but the "average" kind of work..

Would love to get some recommendations..

Thanks!]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 11:43:23 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1107303 Posted By: Panupat
Post Time: 05-16-2013 at 08:52 AM
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Hi everyone. My studio is about to order 2 of this as our render nodes.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/...S-F617R3-FT.cfm

There are 8 blades. Each blade would be using Duo Xeon Sandy Bridge 8C E5-2660 2.2G 20M 8GT/s QPI.

At first, our vender offered UPS with 3,500W, 5,000VA.

But later, our vender said that wouldn't be enough and offered us 8,000W, 10K VA which doubled the UPS price.

Any suggestion how much power I should really be going for? In the blade's spec says it'd come with a 1620W power supply.

Thanks in advance!]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 03:52:15 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1107282 Posted By: okmijun
Post Time: 05-16-2013 at 07:21 AM
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Hi,
Could someone with 64GB of RAM tell us is it worth of it?
For landscapes and very detailed projects, mainly archiviz.
Do you really use near that?
Or is it adventage in that you can swithces from project to project easily?
3,4 instances of MAX, with average of 10-15GB of RAM?]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 02:21:20 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1107078 Posted By: Copperrobber
Post Time: 05-14-2013 at 04:50 PM
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Is these specifications any good for 3D modeling/sculpting (and gaming) ?
AMD Radeon HD7750 2048MB (2GB) -GRAPHICSCARD
AMD Quad-core X4 750K 4.0GHz (turbo) - Black Edition -CPU
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600MHz - RAM
Seagate 500GB 7200RPM 32MB - HARDDRIVE

I am now using a samsung R580 laptop with i3,4gb RAM & geforce GT330m and i can sculpt up to polygon level 2 in Mudbox and then it starts lagging, and when i import it to Blender its unworkable ? (ist that a word ? ) anyway will those specs work any good ? its really cheap too only 650 bucks for that.]]> Tue, 14 May 2013 11:50:25 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1106988 Posted By: enian82
Post Time: 05-14-2013 at 04:54 AM
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Hello Folks...
I currently run 1x 2408 Dell and 1x 2410 Dell.
I am doing lighting in maya the colors are way off and this drives me crazy.

Color calibration didnt help much... I used a Spyder 3 and basically hated it....
The only solution I can come up is buying a Mac Display 27 inch and hope it doesnt die soon...
The price is not something I can live with but If thats the only solution then I would do it...

I wonder what is been used by some of you guys to handle similar issue...
Thank you for the reply in advance.

Yesh]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 23:54:53 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1106561 Posted By: tswalk
Post Time: 05-11-2013 at 03:07 AM
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I was considering adding a device to give myself gesture controls on the desktop and was pondering one the Lenovo touchpads...

has anyone thought about this or tried one yet?

http://blog.lenovo.com/products/int...reless-touchpad

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/itemdetai...C47C56812E4188C]]> Fri, 10 May 2013 22:07:29 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1106539 Posted By: Orkman
Post Time: 05-10-2013 at 10:57 PM
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Which would you pick? They are almost the same in price. Only thing is I think the mobility of the 13HD is more appealing to me.

Is the difference between 1024 and 2048 levels of pressure noticeable?

Thanks!]]> Fri, 10 May 2013 17:57:27 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1106516 Posted By: dwigfor
Post Time: 05-10-2013 at 06:11 PM
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Anyone using a Surface Pro? I've been holding back, but might have to jump in now.. I read exciting news today!

http://www.wacom.com/feeldriver

Wacom has released a driver that enables pen pressure in Photoshop,zbrush,etc.!

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...m=1365620974184

I still might wait till next gen, Haswell processor, but I'd love to hear people's experiences.]]> Fri, 10 May 2013 13:11:13 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1106378 Posted By: Dmorcos
Post Time: 05-09-2013 at 09:30 PM
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I have to decide which desktop to get of the 3. Be in mind I am a medium proficiency animator. Which would be the best for both Maya, Cinema 4D, Blender and Zbrush?

1. The: Refurbished Dell XPS 8500 Desktop, Intel® Core™ i7-3770 3.4GHz
(downside: 1 GB Gt620 graphics but it's PCIe x16 so it's replaceable)

2. Alienware X51 Core i5 3330P (3.0Ghz) 8GB RAM, Gtx 645 (looks like it's PCIe x16)
(downside: don't even know if it's going to work when I get it)

3. Asus Black Desktop: Intel Core i5-3350P Processor 3.1 GHz ( cache)16GB DDR3 RAM 1 TB 7200 rpm Hard DriveWindows 8
(downside: GT640 but with 3GB, not sure if it's PCIe x16

All are around the same price
I need your professional wisdom]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 16:30:52 +0000 http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1106254 Posted By: OperionMalaysia
Post Time: 05-09-2013 at 01:04 AM
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Hello,
Has anyone can introduce me a quality animated video designer?
I need it to create a video for my product online billing system (www.operion.com.my/online_billing.html).
Please propose your idea, the price is not issue, the quality is the matter.
Please email to jimtan@operion.com.my.]]> Wed, 08 May 2013 20:04:53 +0000