So I will also change my machine in a few month and im starting to gather information.
A point that is really important to me is the modelling and scultping aspects in blender since im modelling for a game, and with my current computer , a laptop (intel core i7 -2630 QM, 8GB ddr3 ram, nvidia gt540m 2gb vram) i’m stuck at ~ 1 m poly ( hard to work when i sculpt) , 500k ( sculpt without much latency).
So my questions would be:
is it normal that i cant work fluently with my laptop with those specs at 1 m poly? ( undo steps = 1 , vbos= on double sided textures = off, gpu compute)
wich hardware piece is the most important for sculpting?
-gtx titan vs gtx 780 ( because for now you cant use the 6gb vram of the titan in blender.
Ow sorry i forgott to mention it will be a desktop pc, up to 3500 € budget, i want that computer to last for a while.
At the moment ~ 1 m tris is the highest level i can still work with half decently in sculpt mode ( laggy rotation and brush strokes ): My cpu is working at 16 % and 3,9 g of my ram are used (2,9 g are used constantly by windows and my other applications) , im using vbos , i have 0 memory steps, i did not start from a simple plane ( object had ~4k faces when i started to use the multires modifier), im using simple deform with 0 influence at the bottom of the .
I’ll buy each piece of hardware on the internet to get better prices and then build the computer on my own, I will buy it in the end of august- mid september most likely.
A lot of money doesn’t make a computer last long. That’s a misconception.
Buying smart does. Better buy something decent for 2000 Euro and spend the remaining 1500 Euro to upgrade over the years.
Well I can fully understand but i am not sure if I share your point of view.
Its like renovating a house ,you should aim to get the current most efficient stuff when you renovate, same for my pc i dont know if it would be smart to upgrade to a computer that is only abit better than my current one…
Wenn schon dann richtig ne ?
Btw,I live in Innsbruck Austria!, and where do you live?
I follow a few simple paradigms that served me well since around 1992, when i built my first own PC and I am doing so since then:
Try to double the speed/power.
Never buy the latest stuff.
Never buy the top of the crop.
Always buy the best power/price, power/watt.
Pay the extra bucks for good cooling.
Only violate those rules if you have time critical tasks to finish, or the saved time makes up for the investment.
I never bought a complete machine since then, I always upgraded parts.
It really depends on what you need. But if you need good graphics power and one or more good display(s), 3500€’s not so much anymore. I tend to forget that.
It’s easy to spend 3k on CPU and GPU only.
I agree with Arexma. Check out my sig for the hardware I use currently. I sculpt smoothly up to 25 million polygons (depending on the base mesh), and my system is OLD. AMD works very well with Blender viewport - better than Nvidia hardware. For CUDA rendering and applications I bought a second hand 590 for a mere can$300. My system outperforms many others depending on the task.
Buy smart, and do not believe the hype. Your Blender work experience will be much more convenient with a dual screen setup, for example. So instead of going with the latest and greatest (and by far most expensive), check which cpu gives the best power/price ratio, and use the saved money on an overall improved setup that actually makes your computing experience more pleasant.
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