A couple of years ago a had a friend of mine compose a workstation for me, especially for my profession as a 2D Autocad draftsmen. It worked fine, but know I’m working for a company with their own workstations.
For a while know I’m trying to learn Blender at home, so I can use both my 2d and 3d skills in the futher.
Because I’m a complete noob at hardware, workstationconfiguration etc, I wanted to know if my workstation is suitable for running (high quality) Blender renders.
in my opinion it is the best thing to get a NIVIDIA card - why? read the article again … further …
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Best to get a fast solid state drive for programs, OS, and fast-read data, and keep the TB-sized conventional drive for mass data storage. Key is to size the SSD appropriately ; these days “only” 128 GB drives fill up real fast.
Not sure if the other poster realizes but the GeForce GTX 750Ti is an NVidia card… 2 GB VRAM might be a little low if you do GPU-rendering. If so and a replacement is in order have a look at the newer 10x0 series. A word of caution though, if you’re using older AutoCAD releases there may be some display problems as they use older legacy DirectX which may not work well with new graphics driver/card/operating system combinations.
Hi, and yes, a SSD is really speed up the whole system.
I bought one a few years ago and my first impression was I bought a new workstation too.
out system is fast enough for modeling and render small/mid complex scenes and there are several tricks to work on bigger scenes.
You have to decide for the future what you prefer for render, CPU or GPU.
If GPU, follow dgorsman.
If CPU, buy a bundle with CPU, Mainboard and RAM.
You can use most/all old parts of your workstation.
One disadvantage of GPU is the memory limit, a scene has to fit in to the memory of the video card.
If a scene is bigger you cant render on GPU at all.
Cheers, mib
EDIT: You can use GTX 750 for display only and GTX 10xx for render only if you board support two GPU.
Thank you everyone for answering so fast!
Since it’s not for my profession yet (still learning everything step by step), I can’t spent to much money on the improvements.
As I understand, the first and most important thing I need to do is buying me a SSD for storage?
The main projects I’ll be focussing on is architectural inspired. Inside and outside scenes of small buildings.
I’m not sure what CPU and GPU really means, so I’ll have a google-search to understand Mib’s post a bit better.
@paintinx i disagree with your link… It says the best cpu is the i7 7700k over the ryzen purely because of the single cpu core speed… When in my opinion it wouldnt matter that much especially with larger scenes… sure each deformer may be single threaded… but with a multithreaded dependency graph means that multiple deformers can happen at the same time… on a per object basis… so that it will take advantage of all the cores.
Honestly any machine is far more than acceptable for Blender, I feel the devs should lower the “minimum” system requirements, I’ve ran Blender just fine on some really weak machines.
Basically, yeah, you’re machine is more than enough. : )
If you don’t already own the machine, if you plan on GPU rendering, put the budget more into GPU, put the CPU on the backburner.
If you plan on CPU rendering, put the budget into the CPU and RAM, put the GPU on the backburner.
