Rate this computer's specs (I'm planning on buying soon)

[JOKA_]

NJ5 said:

JOKA_ said:

See I really don't know a lot about computers (definitely not enough to build my own) so I really don't know what your question means ha.  I sent some specs to a tech savvy (or atleast more than I am) friend of mine and he said it was fine (i5, 8G RAM, Radeon HD 6670).  But I did some diggy around and managed to find this for almost exactly the same price.

Don't get me wrong, the i7 960 is a quite powerful processor. It's not a huge difference, but the Sandy Bridge series which came out this year is a bit better (i7-2500, i7-2600).

As for the GPU, you really should check out if the 3D software you're using requires/recommends a powerful graphics card, the GT 440 is quite weak but may be enough if your software does not use graphics card acceleration.

 

Until I can get (a lot) more cash I'm probably going to be using Blender which recommends: Open GL Graphics Card with 768 MB RAM, ATI FireGL or Nvidia Quadro

Eventually (fingers crossed) I will have Maya, which I recently had running on a 2007 laptop that had 2G RAM, so I can only assume it had a pretty crappy video card also.  It didn't run very well but nevertheless it still worked.