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Your Ultimate Workstation - Please Spec It!
Hello again, Curious what TAOs take would be on Ultimate Workstations for 2 different disciplines* Ultimate Game Art Rig (Artists) * Ultimate Game Dev Rig (Programmers) IOW: Spec your ultimate workstation for either of the above without restriction (to amount, level, or manufacturer) * OS * CPU * GPU * RAM * Hard Drives… -
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Game Art rig: * OS - Manjaro Linux (Host), Windows 8.1 or 10 (VM Guest to run windows applications 'natively' in linux) * CPU - Probably a high-end Skylake GPU or anything tried and tested with a hardware passthrough. if we're being totally insane, a workstation using two physical CPU's if one can be passed through… -
Re: Your Ultimate Workstation - Please Spec It!
* Ultimate Game Art Rig (Artists) Warning: Assuming build assumes infinite money. 8 SSD's may not be a normal sensible choice * OS- Windows 10 Reason: Windows has always been my favorite OS and Windows 10 is my favorite version of it. * CPU- 5930K or 6700K Reason: Trade off between the higher clock speed and the cores. *… -
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Kinda ;) -
Re: Your Ultimate Workstation - Please Spec It!
OS: Windows 7 Pro CPU: 6700K GPU: 980ti RAM: 64GB DDR4 SSD: 2x 2TB Samsung Pro in a RAID1 Monitor: 2x Dell UP2516D displays. Optical: Blu-Ray burner (my preferred way of doing long-term backups) Software: 3DSMax, Maya, 3D-Coat, ZBrush, Photoshop, Clip Paint Studio, Unreal Engine 4, Substance Designer, IPackThat. -
Re: Your Ultimate Workstation - Please Spec It!
^^^ Thanks again. How about UV tools? I'm a long time UVLayout fan, what's the latest/greatest solution? -
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Lots of games and applications only really take advantage of 2-4 cores, except for baking and rendering. If you do a lot of baking and rendering, the extra cores are awesome to have, but not completely necessary. Because of the huge price gap between Quardro and Geforce or Xeon and i7, many artists like to go the most cost… -
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^^^ Thank you -
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For an ultimate monitor I'd love one of these: http://www.eizo.com/products/coloredge/cg318-4k/ -
Re: Your Ultimate Workstation - Please Spec It!
Ultimate Game Art Rig OS Windows 10 CPU - Depending on what form factor and software I would be using mostly. I have a love for tiny ITX builds so that would be tempting. 5960X or 6700k or Xeon E5-2687W v3 or two Xeon E5-2687W v3 GPU - Probably wouldn't do SLI since not many art applications take advantage of it 980ti…
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