Hey, long story short, I realize my current pc is absolutely not up to be animating in Maya. Playing animation in the viewports are really choppy and laggy, and I would definitly not be able to go on with this. Thus, I realized it’s time to move on up. I hitup a friend (he’s a computer/gaming geek) and asked him to help me build a desktop.
I personally have very limited knowledge to most of this stuff, and would say I’m pretty laughable. Anyways, after having me answer some questions about how much RAM, how big do I want this, we came up with the following. He told me it’s just about the same as his set-up (which from what I’ve seen, is pretty great with games) I however won’t really be using it for games, and pretty much just want to focus on animation/3d-related tasks. And the build (from what I can tell with my limited knowledge) seem alot like it’s meant for gaming, so I question how well it would work in Maya. (I won’t necessarily be rendering, however if it’s got the power, that’s definitely a plus. )
For a desktop which he refered to as ‘fairly bad-ass’ I would be almost shocked to find out it’s not so great for what I’d like to do, but I just wanted some reassurance before I go and buy these parts.
So, basically he gave me links to Amazon, asking me the occassional question about how much ram, what cpu, etc. And the result was this : (I apologize if this is the worst/strangest format to post these things, but hopefully it’ll get the picture across)
Case : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004WO17UC/ref=ox_sc_act_image_10?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007G51UV0/ref=ox_sc_act_title_7?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Powersupply : Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Bronze (TX850M)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005E98EI2/ref=ox_sc_act_title_8?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Processor : Intel Core i5-3570K Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155 - BX80637I53570K
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007SZ0E1K/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
RAM : Kingston HyperX Beast 16 GB Kit (2x8 GB) 2400MHz DDR3 PC3-19200 Non-ECC CL11 DIMM XMP Desktop Memory KHX24C11T3K2/16X
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A771ZJG/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Graphics card: EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SUPERCLOCKED 2048MB GDDR5 DVI HDMI DP Graphics Card 02G-P4-2662-KR
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00966IREK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_9?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
SSD : Kingston Digital 120GB SSDNow V300 SATA 3 2.5 (7mm height) with Adapter Solid State Drive 2.5-Inch SV300S37A/120G
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A1ZTZOG/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
HDD : WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache - WD10EZEX
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0088PUEPK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Wireless : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007GMPZ0A/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Speakers : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0027VT6V4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Keyboard : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00385TJBK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2LM6ZPY06LT1N
Mouse : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CDINUTK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A294P4X9EWVXLJ
DVD thingy : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0033Z2BAQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1B16S9HEII11V
Monitor : Asus VS247H-P 24-Inch Full-HD LED-Lit Monitor http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005BZNDS0/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER