[JAM3S121]

My friend is a graphic artist and is needing a new rig, he told me has around $3000 to spend if needed to get a great machine. He works mainly with Maya, autodesk 3d max and photoshop. I told him I would post here because I am not sure what would be best for him, I figure a sandy bridge-e, with 16gbs of ram would be the bare minium but not sure.

he needs
cpu
motherboard
ram
power supply ( I think he only has a antec 600ish watt on his current rig)
video card(s)
ssd(s) or hard drive(s) I am not sure what he wants to do but he just wants maya to be blazing fast so I figure raid 0 can't hurt.

 

[cwizardtx]

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Originally Posted by JAM3S121

My friend is a graphic artist and is needing a new rig, he told me has around $3000 to spend if needed to get a great machine. He works mainly with Maya, autodesk 3d max and photoshop. I told him I would post here because I am not sure what would be best for him, I figure a sandy bridge-e, with 16gbs of ram would be the bare minium but not sure.

he needs
cpu
motherboard
ram
power supply ( I think he only has a antec 600ish watt on his current rig)
video card(s)
ssd(s) or hard drive(s) I am not sure what he wants to do but he just wants maya to be blazing fast so I figure raid 0 can't hurt.

Box O' Parts or Turnkey solution? I'd definitely bite on the SSD, and go with a couple 10k RPM 1TB drives in RAID 0

 

[gablain]

3930k 4x8gb of ram. SSD for OS. Graphics Card should go with Nvidia if there is raytracing involved, otherwise go with AMD. If here is very serious and making money with what he does i suggest looking into the Cad station card ( firepro etc)

 

[xnuw]

Spoiler: $2500 sim~build

cpu Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73930K ~ $540 f/s

hsf CORSAIR Hydro Series H60 (CW-9060007-WW) Water Cooler ~ $ 78 f/s

pcb ASUS P9X79 PRO LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with USB BIOS ~ $320+8 = $328

ram G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL10Q-32GBZL ~ $195 f/s

ssd SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ~ $250 f/s

hdd Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ 1TB 10000 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive ~ $230 f/s

psu SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS 12V V2.91 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply ~ $90+10 = $100

gpu PNY VCQ4000-PB Quadro 4000 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Workstation Video Card ~ $719 f/s

atx Antec P280 Black Super Mid Tower Silent Computer Case ~ $100 f/s

odd SAMSUNG DVD Burner 24X SATA Model SH-224BB - OEM ~ $18 f/s

Total ~ $2,568 after rebate ($10) $2,578 shipped

Here's a sim-build around $2500. Hope you like it

 

[Astral Fly]

For general work in Maya I think you're better off with AMD Firepro than Nvidia Quadro. I would suggest getting a W7000. I'm buying one myself in a few months for work in Maya. I'm not sure which card is best for Max though, I don't use that. Maya benchmark