Hello hello!
I am a games development student (Art) from Sydney, Australia! I use Maya, Mudbox, Photoshop, Substance Painter and Unity veryyyy heavily. In the future I will also be using Adobe After Effects and with that, video editting.
The problem here is that Substance and Mudbox both crash when working on bigger projects, and Photoshop gets close.
Mudbox and Photoshop due to lack of RAM, and Substance I believe it is due to lack of VRAM. Display drivers stop working and BSOD's with VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE.
I'll be playing the latest games doing research on the latest games on a 1080p monitor, though I have plans to upgrade to 1440p.
My current computer specs are:
i7 3770 (non-k)
Sapphire Radeon 6950 2GB (originally a Geforce 210!)
8GB RAM
A motherboard that only supports PCIE 2.0
128gb SSD
If I should get a new computer, my 'ideal' build would be something along the lines of:
i7 6700K
16GB RAM
GTX 1070
250gb SSD
I am absolutely out of the loop for other computer parts! So my first request would be, what are some good motherboards, power supplies, maybe even good quality RAM?
I do not see myself overclocking this machine (until it nears the end of its lifetime, at least.)
My budget would fall between $1500 to $2000 AUD.
My second question is, if I do get a completely new computer, I will have spare i7 3770. It's been in service for ~4 years now, but it's running strong and has had no problems. It's been impossible to find a decent LGA 1155 board, so what do you all think I should do about that?
(I am considering selling this computer if I get a new one, but if there are any nice ideas for what to do with an old computer, I'd love to hear!)
Thanks in advance!