Build Thoughts?

[AlekzCG]

Hi!, I write you today because I would very much like to hear your thoughts on the build i will be purchasing in the next month or so and how it will perform when it comes to cg animation and rendering.

The build is:

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3820 Quad-Core 3.60 GHz 10MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011 (All Venom OC Certified)

HDD: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive)

MEMORY: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)

MOTHERBOARD: * (3-Way SLI Support) Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 Chipset Quad Channel DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ UEFI DualBIOS, Dolby

VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)

Any comments will be very much appreciated! Thanks

[dillster]

Not really much to say. You have it all in that package, plenty of muscle, speed and space.

[caffeineadic]

Any monitors. You should atleast have dual monitors.

I have found a large HD is not practical anymore. I have gone to having several smaller HD, 1 in my computer, 1 on my network and a couple external HD. I use most of them for backup purposes. Losing 2TB of data can cause heart attacks, there is no need to put yourself through that.
This is all for a home setup.

[AlekzCG]

Thanks for the replies! i have dual monitors and i understand fully what your saying. would you say it would be a better decision to get say a 1TB HD? And will this computer be able to run things like viewport 2.0 and mudbox without any problems? Thanks!

[dillster]

Don't worry about the HD, you can always get a smaller external one for keeping runtimes and other stuff on. mudbox and everything else will run great on that setup.

[AlekzCG]

Cool! thanks for all your help! i really appreciate it. looks like ill be picking this machine up something this month! really excited.

[caffeineadic]

Things like Viewport 2.0 - you need to check the video card will run it. It is mainly the drivers that do not support Viewport 2.0. Not sure, but maybe most cards these days have driver support for this. I bought a fairly highend ATI card, 1.5 year ago - and I still have no support for Viewport 2.0.

Your 16g of ram will be sweet with mudbox, etc..

You can do whatever with your HD setup - just do not buy a system without thinking about what you use it for. Make sure you atleast get a smaller external drive.