Buying boxx vs origin

#1

Ive never been too good with building PCs on my own in fact Ive always managed with my Macbook Pro, Ill be needing a good computer for work with mainly C4D, Maya and After Effects so I’ve turned to other manufacturers for a good PC.

The problem is that I have a doubt now regarding what to buy, on one side I have Boxx with this custom built setup:

Intel core i5-4460 3.2 Ghz Quad Core
32 Gb DDR3 1600mhz
Nvidia Geforce GTX 770 2GB
3T 7,200rpm SATA

This one costs 4126$

Then you have the custom built origin pc:

Overclocked Intel Core i5 4670K Quad-Core (4.0GHz-4.7GHz)
Single 3GB NVIDIA GTX 780
32GB ORIGIN PC powered by HyperX 1600Mhz (4x8GB)
4TB Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive

This one would cost me 3391$

My budget is of around 5100$, So has anyone here had any previous experience with any of these two companies? what can you share? as you can see I have the opportunity of getting a better setup for a smaller price thing is I would like to ask around before taking any steps. The reason I am choosing a GTX over a Quadro is because even though I will be working with this comp, every now and then I game a bit, I always do it on my Laptop, or maybe I should dump the GTX a take a good Quadro instead, and game with that if I need to since at the end I wont be an avid gamer.

Would a GTX fulfil the task in 3D equally or better than a Quadro??

So here is my thread, I would love to hear any suggestions that you guys might have on this subject.

Just for the info here are the specs on my current system:
Macbook Pro 17 inch (late 2011)
AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
8gb ram 1600mhz
Intel i7 2,5ghz.

I kinda need a good upgrade, at least for some of the things Im working on right now.

I await your answer.

Dave.

#2

>3K for an i5 setup? Seems a bit expensive to me either way.
The i5 has no HT (10%-20% performance loss compared to i7) and smaller cache. It is usually used in a good office system for 2D graphics work, word processing, …
Especially CINEMA 4D relies to a good deal on single core performance for display speed, the i5 will cripple any of the GPUs you take into consideration. For good viewport performance with c4d get a current i7 with 3.8+ GHz and a GTX 750Ti (or bigger).

#3

Both of those are pretty expensive…

I built this:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=174972
http://forums.cgsociety.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=174973

for 3600$ US.

#4

For half the money you can build a 6core i7 machine by your self, with today PC components it’s really plug and play. Or if you like to keep using OSX, with your budget you can afford an 8core Xeon machine with much better multithread performance and much faster PCIe ssd.

#5

As other have said, I wouldnt buy either. $4000 for a low end i5 from boxx is pretty funny though, the sad thing is, people will buy it. For that sort of money you should be aiming for:

£260 intel i7 4790 (devils canyon) 4GHz cpu
£120 motherboard
£240 branded 32 gigs ram 1800mhz
£70 branded 600watt psu
£60 H60 cpu cooler
£200 geforce 760 or £500 geforce 780
£150 3tb harddrive
£80 case
£100 windows
£20 optical drive
£110 256gig ssd

Even if you throw in 20% on top for a company to build it for you, thats £1700-£2000 for a top notch system.

#6

So basically if i get one of these to start with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117369 will this mean that the system will see 8 CPUs when running? since its a quad core and each of the cores can process two threads, thats what you meant by 8 core Xeon? correct me if wrong.

#7

An 8 core Xeon would show 16 virtual CPUs. i7 and Xeon CPUs support Intel Hyperthreading. This splits up one physical CPU core into two virtual ones, thereby increasing efficency. Over all you get between 10-20% speed increase on well multithreaded tasks, like c4d rendering.

#8

Oh yes, sorry my bad, the octo core ones like this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117266&cm_re=Intel_XEON_E5-2650--19-117-266--Product

Thanks for the quick response everyone!!

#9

Yes, that CPU would show 16 virtual CPUs. Be aware though that that specfic CPU is 2 1/2 years old and no match in any way for current 4-6 core i7 CPUs like the one Mash pointed you to. The E5-2650 will very likely be less than half as fast as the i7-4790 in the viewport and very roughly equal in renderspeed.

#10

Got it, thanks once again, Im now much more informed.