New comptuer $2000 budget
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Here are the parts:
http://www.amazon.com/lm/R1CZYBH8BISQC9/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&lm_bb=&tag=topgc13-20
Is this the best computer I can get for around $2000? Or is there something better? Thanks.
Edit: I would be using the computer for zbrush, photoshop, Unreal Engine 4, gaming, and other programs.
http://www.amazon.com/lm/R1CZYBH8BISQC9/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&lm_bb=&tag=topgc13-20
Is this the best computer I can get for around $2000? Or is there something better? Thanks.
Edit: I would be using the computer for zbrush, photoshop, Unreal Engine 4, gaming, and other programs.
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Those high end cards really only exceed the mid if you go above 1080p or use double monitors or something. For a single screen display at 1920x1080 a mid card will be perfect.
Other parts looks good, im not a huge fan of some of the brands but all will work
OpenCL is basically CPU processing done on the GPU to accelerate tasks. You're most likely going to see it being used for texturing and baking first. It's open so it can work on Nvidia and ATI cards, but it has to be implemented by the software developer to work on both. ATI has less of a market share in GPUs right now, and I'd assume even less of a market share for game developers, so I don't really seeing there being any Software openCL implementations exclusive to ATI. People often say ATI is faster or has better openCL, but that's all do to crypto-currency mining, which doesn't have any impact or relevance to software tasks for game artists.
I agree with skyline5gtr, as a game artist you will want to get newer series of video cards quicker than most gamers, so it's better to get a mid range card now, and then get a newer one in 2 years. Newer cards often get newer features, those features will not show up in games for a while, but you'll see software packages add them right away, things like tessellation, bokeh depth of field, better shader model, better stereoscopic 3D support, better anti aliasing, where added with DX11, and DX12 is coming out next year, and you'll need a card that will support it, I'm not saying you should wait to buy a GPU, just that it's better to buy the best bang for your buck card more often, than the best card on the market.
Macs aren't just a brand - they work well - with Parallels you can get a Virtual Machine on the go - it does go wrong sometimes though. PCs and Macs are awesome!
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The 27" display is something like 2400 x 1440 with really good clarity.
My experience with all the AMD products has been HORRIBLE.
Do you need such huge and ultra expensive case? are you going to do super OC with that expensive mobo? are you going to build a sli config? the build does not make sense at all. It's like you were choosing only the most expensive parts, and "expensive" = not good at all, but bad for our wallet.
You are going for the latest and most expensive i7 of the 1050 platform, it's a good cpu, but don't you think you won't be taking advantage of it at all? An i5 4690, 4670 is enough for all our needs and it's cheaper. Or are you planning to be rendering and encoding all the days? if that's the case, go for a i7 six core cpu with HT and quadchannel memory support.
The mobo, a micro atx one is cheaper and good enough. You put on the list memories at 1600mhz, not the best for OC, but you choose components like that cpu and that expensive mobo for extreme oc. And... you choose a cpu cooler not good enough for OC
If you want a good and cheap system, with that i7 (4ghz sells very well and sounds cool), i'd choose a micro-atx mobo without too many useless features i won't use.
New gpus from nvidia will ship for the last quarter of this year, with 8GB/16GB.. paying 500$+ for a gpu is insane. A single GTX 660 and GTX 760 is enough nowadays.
Think well your future purchase.
I'm not sure what parts would be my best option. I'm also not sure what parts work best with each other either.
No, you could get a better PC for the price (6 Cores, more RAM, better PSU etc.)
I would build a $1000-1500 PC now and upgrade in 3-5 years. Since the performance benefit one gets from upgrades has slowed down you don't need to upgrade as often as in the past.
For example: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/x8KJmG
The build is fast and at the same time silent (quiet but good cooler, most quiet GTX 770, quiet and efficient PSU, well finished and noise dampened case). Put aside the ~$750 you save and buy additional 16 GByte memory down the road if you should need it, buy a 20/16nm GPU which will arrive 2015 (the new AMD and Nvidia cards this year will still be 28nm just like the cards from 2011) or buy substance designer/painter or the new quixel suite etc.
If you really want to spend $2000, put $1300-1500 into the system and buy yourself a nice 24 or 27 inch IPS monitor.
Skamnder's build above looks very reasonable, though maybe a good idea to get the 4GB 770, which isn't much extra.
GPU performance: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
CPU performance: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
The R9 2x offers basically nothing over the 770 GTX except being more expensive.
For a 770 GTX I would go with a high quality 650W PSU though, I say this after blowing out a 550W one, and then running BSODs under full load on another 550W PSU with my 770.
Theres no point getting the best gpu on the market. Get something decent (670/770) and upgrade later as the new technology comes. Sometimes drivers are the biggest performance increase.
typicall 1 card every 3 series. They usually just reuse and rehash the same GPU for 3 series line and develop new during
would that be able to be able to plug into this MOBO:
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