Desktop for both 3D Modelling and Gaming?

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Doreo

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Hi everyone!

I currently own a Dell XPS-15 Laptop and I'm starting to learn 3D Modelling and Animation and I already did stuff like that before but the laptop proved to be obviously super slow with it.

I am also a gamer however and with a Geforce 435M the games have low-medium graphics and I would like more then that.

So I'm looking for a rig that would be able to be good with rendering and 3D Modelling (i.e. run Vue really well, and render objects quickly) but also provide me with Medium-High or even High graphics.

I know Nvidia has the Quadro and the GeForce and that the Quadro shouldn't be used for video games but is there a GeForce card that will be able to do both? Can you also suggest a whole rig?

I am not familiar with AMD but if you know they can provide what I need more than Nvidia then I'll take that too.

As for budget - anything between $1000 and $2000 will be OK but I will prefer something between $1000-$1500.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Doreo
 
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1. A quadro can be gamed on. It will not perform as well as a geforce of the same specs because of driver and BIOS tweaks for stability, but it can be done. I have gamed just fine on the Quadro FX2500m and NVS135m (7900m GTX and 8400m GT respectively). IF you can OC them, then you can easily get them to perform well above their gaming companions.

2. A GTX gaming card will model. It just will not model as well. But a $300 gaming card will far out model a $300 professional card because of specs only.
 
This should be pretty good if don't mind putting it together. GTX 670 has CUDA, that should help with your rendering.

i7 3770K http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116501
GA-Z77X-UD5H http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128545
16GB RipJaws-X 1600 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231429
CM Hyper 212+ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065

Carbide 300R http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139011
TX 650 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020
DVD-RW http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151244

Samsung 830 128GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147163
Caviar Black 1TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
Windows 7 Pro x64 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116992

EVGA GTW 670 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130787

Total comes to $1,594.88 - hopefully that's everything. Lemme know what you think.
 
spirit said:
This should be pretty good if don't mind putting it together. GTX 670 has CUDA, that should help with your rendering.

i7 3770K http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116501
GA-Z77X-UD5H http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128545
16GB RipJaws-X 1600 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231429
CM Hyper 212+ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065

Carbide 300R http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139011
TX 650 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020
DVD-RW http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151244

Samsung 830 128GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147163
Caviar Black 1TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
Windows 7 Pro x64 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116992

EVGA GTW 670 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130787

Total comes to $1,594.88 - hopefully that's everything. Lemme know what you think.
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Thanks so much for the rig! I will definitely consider it!

I just have a quick question: Why would I need two Internal Hard Drives? (That is the SAMSUNG 830 Series and Western Digital Caviar Black?)
 
The Samsung 830 is an SSD which is what you'd install Windows and your programs onto. It will make your system blazing fast if you plug it into the SATA 6GB/s port on your board, should be a good 3-4 times faster than a hard drive as far as Seq. Read/write speeds are concerned.

The 1TB drive would be your storage drive which you could keep your files etc on.
 
spirit said:
The Samsung 830 is an SSD which is what you'd install Windows and your programs onto. It will make your system blazing fast if you plug it into the SATA 6GB/s port on your board, should be a good 3-4 times faster than a hard drive as far as Seq. Read/write speeds are concerned.

The 1TB drive would be your storage drive which you could keep your files etc on.
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Alright, thanks so much! :D :good:
 
Ok so since I live in Denmark I can't order from New Egg so I went to a Danish online shop to search for those components but had to find the best alternative since they didn't have the same ones. This is what I came up with:

Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz 8MB Box S1155
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3P-B3 ATX LGA1155
RAM: Corsair DDR3 PC1333 CL9 XMS3 16GB kit
Video Card: inno3D GTX670 2GB GDDR5
Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 612S - Heatsink with Cooling
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Mid Tower Black
Power: Corsair TX Series 650W TX650M 80 + Bronze
Drive: Samsung SH-222BB DVDRW SATA 22x Black
Hard Drive: WD Caviar Green 1000GB WD10EARX SATA6 64MB
SSD:Corsair SSD Force 3 120GB 550/510 MB r / w

I imagine a different Drive, Hard Drive or SSD Card won't do anything bad but would the Gigabyte Z68x and the different RAM and VGA brand change anything much?
 
Doreo said:
Ok so since I live in Denmark I can't order from New Egg so I went to a Danish online shop to search for those components but had to find the best alternative since they didn't have the same ones. This is what I came up with:

Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz 8MB Box S1155
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3P-B3 ATX LGA1155
RAM: Corsair DDR3 PC1333 CL9 XMS3 16GB kit
Video Card: inno3D GTX670 2GB GDDR5
Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 612S - Heatsink with Cooling
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R Mid Tower Black
Power: Corsair TX Series 650W TX650M 80 + Bronze
Drive: Samsung SH-222BB DVDRW SATA 22x Black
Hard Drive: WD Caviar Green 1000GB WD10EARX SATA6 64MB
SSD:Corsair SSD Force 3 120GB 550/510 MB r / w

I imagine a different Drive, Hard Drive or SSD Card won't do anything bad but would the Gigabyte Z68x and the different RAM and VGA brand change anything much?
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All looks fine to me, just be aware though that you need to make sure that that Z68 board has the latest BIOS installed before you attempt to use it with a 3770K - the Z68 boards do work with Ivy Bridge, but they're older so a BIOS update is needed. I'd stick to Z77 myself, surely you can find a good Z77 board on the site where you're buying from?

The Caviar Green drive is slow as it's only 5900 RPM but for storage it should be fine. I have the 2TB version of that drive and yeah it is slow but for storage it does the job I guess.

Wouldn't get the Force 3, there are drives out there which are faster and more stable. Take a look into the likes of the Crucial M4, Kingston Hyper-X 3K, SanDisk Extreme and of course the Samsung 830 drives. OCZ make good drives too, the Vertex 4 was just released. I wouldn't get the Force 3 myself, there are many drives out there now which are faster.

Also wouldn't purchase an Inno3D card myself, but it should be fine. I tend to stick with EVGA, ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte when buying NVIDIA cards - the reason being they all have good warranties and they are all very well made cards, the cards from lesser brands tend to be a bit 'plasticy' and they feel as if they're going to fall apart at any moment. :/
 
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