You make game art you want to test your art in game? Well a workstation will only let you do the first of those moderately well. Do you plan on doing any shader work? Workstations suck at displaying shaders in a real time viewport also. If you're doing animation you can forget about playing it in the viewport also. You'll…
My Alienware laptop recently died two weeks ago and I'm going to build a desktop again. My last desktop (built about 4 years ago) ran Maya, 3Ds Max OK and had consumer parts like a Radeon instead of FireGL. From what I gathered, workstation video cards are clocked lower and have specific drivers to help run Maya and other…
when i switched to a (autodesk certified) workstation config for working freelance, the difference to the earlier homebuilt PC's was quite noticeable - not so much in terms of raw performance, but the thing just plain worked. that teached me that half the problems i had previously encountered in my 3d app (3ds max) on…