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Budget (including currency): $2000 Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Clip Studio, YouTube streaming, Phasmophobia, Grounded, Star Wars: The Old Republic Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Current PC Build: Windows 10 Home Processor: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor 4.00 GHz RAM: 8GB Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Monitor: Onn. brand 1920 x 1080 60Hz Second monitor: GAOMON Pen Display 2200 1920 x 1080 60Hz I am wanting to upgrade my current PC set up for both gaming and creating digital artwork. I am wanting to create web comics, assets for video games, as well as become a YouTube streamer. I am also wanting to still be able to play games at their best graphics settings if not extremely close to them. For the gaming side I know I will need a better graphics card, processor, and monitor to name a few upgrades needed. For the artwork side of things, I am not sure what I want to look at for an upgrade. The GAOMON Pen Display was recently purchased and will not be getting replaced it is just the PC side that needs upgrading such as the main monitor and tower. When I turn up the DPI settings for my artwork it will lag out my computer very bad to the point it comes close to crashing. Thankfully it hasn't yet but I don't want for that to happen and risk losing what I currently am working on. The game assets I will be making will range from both 2D and 3D graphics both low-poly and high-res style assets. Another area I am unsure on is what is required to post and upload videos onto YouTube. The first videos I will be uploading are going to be web comics but I will be eventually doing streams as well using a avatar to represent myself. I am currently learning how to create and set one up through VROID.

Good evening stunners so it’s finally time for me to buy a new laptop but i am a bit overwhelmed with the options. So the budget is around 2500 chf/dollars (almost the same i believe). It should handle cinema 4d (main reason) and all the other Adobe content creation applications. It should at least have 32 gb ram and 1 tb ssd space. I was also thinking a 3070? Does that makes even sense? But the display is also very important to me that is colour accurate. Thank you so much in advance for your help Liebe Grüsse aus der Schweiz

I managed to pull a granny and accidentally make the xyz axis disappear on blender when I was doing a tutorial and I cant figure out what I did to do that nor how to undo it. Can I get some help?

Hey Guys, i recently upgraded my the GPU and PSU of my current machine : CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: 4090FE PSU: Corsair HX1200 MOBO: MSI mpg x570 RAM: 16GBx2 DDR4 Case: Antec p101 I want to upgrade the rest of my machine soon (1-2 months), usage is pretty much everything: 3D work and rendering with Daz3d and Blender, Gaming, Encoding(HVEC,AV1,WEBP), media, browsing, etc. Budget is hard to say, exactly, but it's very flexible. I don't want to go balls to the wall dream build, i need help finding a good spot that will not bottleneck the 4090. Here are my thoughts: CPU – I want to go AM5, and i think the 3D work will be most impacted here. I won't go 7600 but im not sure i need to get a 7900X. Id like something before the big diminishing returns. RAM – No idea, DDR5 2X32 probably? MOBO – Pretty clueless here, is the "cheapest" that support all of my components good enough? (don't need Wi-Fi) CASE – I've been thinking about the 5000D, and filling it with 120mm AIO - was thinking about a 240 or 360 exhaust on the top Haven't built in over 3 years, so sightly clueless.

Hi everybody, I'm a artist/student and I'm going to build myself my first rig and I need a bit of help as I've never done it. Budget: 100,000 CZK (roughly 4,000 USD), I'm currently situated in Prague, Czech Republic Purpose: 3D graphics, rendering (mainly GPU, Cycles and Redshift), video editing, (basically a cgi workhorse), possible video streaming (I'm planning to do live classes on CGI) Monitors: I already have one 1920x1080 60Hz display and I might be adding another (probably 1440 one in the future) Why: I'm a freelance 3D artist and I'm upgrading because I'm tired of rendering all my stuff on AWS and other render farms. Got some spare money and I'd like to invest in my work. So far I've been doing all my work on a laptop (Dell Inspiron 15 7559) and even though it's handling most of tasks very well, I can't do more demanding tasks like advanced physical simulations or ray-traced volumetric rendering (technically I can, but it's a pain). Parts: -here's a list of parts I have picked and why I did so, I do need help with some CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X - I figured I will benefit a lot from a good single-core performance and this one looks like a great option if I don't exactly need a Threadripper (I think I don't need a Threadripper) GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti - I have no idea which manufacturer to pick, for starters I will only get one but I'm almost sure I will be turning it into a dual GPU setup later this year RAM: 64 GB - that much I'm sure about since some simulation tasks are RAM heavy, 4x16 or 2x32?, what cl-xx?, what speed? MB: ASUS ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING - will this one be good enough? Will it fit two 2080Ti later? Should I go for EATX? Honestly I have no idea how to pick, apart from the cpu socket. CPU Cooler: NOCTUA NH-D15 SE-AM4 - is this too much or good enough? Any other (better/cheaper) options? PSU: I honestly don't know, did some calculations I think that 1000W should be more than enough (can I go lower?) Storage: I want an ssd, probably M.2 is the best solution (500GB or 1TB) paired with something large but slower like a 4T HDD Case: I honestly don't care, all I need is a good performance/airflow (I do like the looks of Corsair 275R Airflow though) So, those are the parts I think will be best for me. From looking at local prices I think it should fit my budget. But if I can get something better for that price, or cheaper with the same power I'm in. I also want to mention that I am not a fan of RGB lights so... the less it shines, the better. I'll also be buying W10 with it, but I don't need to include that in the budget. Thank you for your time, ZED

So I’ve gotten in to blender and my pc is not old but I’m just getting some ideas. So my pc has a intel i5 9400f and a gtx 1660 ti And it is in a mini itx case so should I upgrade my gpu or cpu anyone can reply I just need some ideas so I can know what to upgrade next and yes I bought some ltt merch.

Hello I am in need of your help...I cannot decide what kind of monitor should I get for working with Blender, Unreal Engine, Adobe Creative Suite. Should it be curved or not? I kind of wanted a wide curved display, but I heard that for this kind of work curved monitors are not the best option as the image is distorted to a certain extent. My main focus is sculpting, visualization, animation, graphic design, rendering. Budget is around 250-300€ Thanks in advance.

I have been thinking about adding a 2070 or a 2070 super to my rig which currently consists of a 1070ti , ryzen 2700x, 48gb of ram and an aorus gaming wifi 5 x470. The main reason I want to get a rtx 2070 is its ability to use ray tracing for 3d rendering programs. The addon e-cycles for blender is an optimised renderer that uses the GPU to get renders 2.5x faster, with an rtx card rendering is 4.7x faster. So my main question , is it a good idea to have both cards in the rig? I know games won't be able to utilize both but could rendering? What would the cons be of switching from a 1070 gtx to a 2070 rtx? And if it would be better to sell the evga 1070ti ftw do you have a y suggestions on where to sell it and how much you would ask for it

Hey guys, I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I really need some help... I'm working on making a film, however I've been stopped dead in my tracks. The film I'm making is about the SCP foundation, and there aren't many high quality models on websites like sketch fab that I can use. Particularly, I need a model of a Mobile Task Force Unit. After searching all over the web and having no luck, I decided to try and rip some custom models from games like Garry's Mod and Arma 3. I quickly realized that I suck at ripping game models because I cannot align the textures with the solider when I use Arma 3, and I cannot find the textures corresponding to a certain mesh when I use Gary's Mod. I used the following programs: Blender - the place where I will animate everything Ninja-ripper - a program I used to rip model files from arma 3 Noesis - a program to quickly view 3d meshes without having to import them all Gimp - the program i use to identify textures Gmad Extractor - the program i used to extract files from Gary's Mod Addons Crowbar - the program i used to convert files from Gmad Extractor into something usable by blender. I've given up on ninjaripper and Arma 3 due to the fact that the textures won't align with the meshes, so I'm working with the Gary's Mod files for now. Gary's mod would be easy to work with if it wasn't for the fact that the models I'm ripping have a ton of different parts. If anyone thinks they might know how to either get the Gary's mod files or better yet, the arma 3 files working, please let me know. I've searched everywhere and I really don't know what to do at this point. Here's a link to the addon page for Gary's Mod if anyone can figure it out: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1687982696download.jfif If someone does know how to rip model files, these are the two MTF soldiers I'm going for. Thank you so much for reading this far. I am deeply sorry that this may not be in the right place but I really need some help. If you need any more information please contact me. download (1).jfif

Budget (including currency): 1000 Country: United State Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Keyshot, SolidWorks, Blender, Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro Other details: At the moment, I'm using 2 laptops to work. MSI GP60 w/GT840M and my main lenovo P40 workstation w/ Quadro m600. I'm an Industrial Designer and sketching and rendering is all I do, so I need a PC for me to use rendering software and CAD. I'm also planning to get in to VR 3D building soon using gravity sketch or other upcoming VR building software. In terms of gaming, I still want a capable PC that I can play most of the games in the next couple years in 1080P. I attached the keyshot/blender system requirement and a build list I put together to see if you guys could help me lower the price without losing too much performance. You guys could just send me a list or tell me if this is a good time to build a new PC. PC Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/g6CqJb Keyshot requirement: https://www.keyshot.com/system-requirements/ Blender requirement: https://www.blender.org/download/requirements/

Budget (including currency): 1500€ Country: Slovakia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Unreal Engine, Blender, Adobe Creative Suite - character design, visualization, game development, content creation Other details (no existing parts, completely new build, also need a monitor, I am planning to buy in September or after new releases come out and maybe previous gens´ prices will drop a bit) Hello, I am planning to build a new PC for game development, character design, content creation. I will mainly use Unreal Engine, Blender and Adobe Creative Suite. There are no existing parts and I would also need a good monitor. My total budget is around 1 500 € I was previously planning on purchasing the parts in May-June, but as I read about the new releases coming in the second half of 2020, I was thinking I should wait till Fall. Reason n.1.: with the new generation of CPUs and GPUs coming, maybe the previous generation´s prices will drop, which would help as my budget is quite limited. n.2.: new parts might fit my needs better while at the same time remaining at a reasonable price I was thinking about the following: (the prices are a bit different in my country...something is cheaper, something is more expensive....) - note the price of the GPU and PSU did not even load... PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $274.49 @ Amazon Motherboard Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard $294.83 @ Amazon Memory Crucial Ballistix RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory $96.99 @ B&H Storage Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $99.99 @ Amazon Storage Western Digital Blue 2 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive $57.49 @ Newegg Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB GAMING OC PRO WHITE Video Card Case be quiet! Pure Base 500DX ATX Mid Tower Case $99.90 @ Amazon Power Supply SeaSonic FOCUS 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $923.69 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-03 09:00 EDT-0400 I was previously advised to purchase the build below. I was told that these specs would be right for what I need the PC for...I not quite liking it though...little bit sceptical about Patriot and the CPU with the MOBO. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $167.00 @ Walmart CPU Cooler SilentiumPC Fera 3 HE1224 v2 46.5 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard Asus TUF B450M-PRO GAMING Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard Memory Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL17 Memory $89.99 @ Newegg Storage Patriot VPN100 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $87.99 @ Amazon Storage Western Digital Blue 2 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive $57.49 @ Newegg Video Card Asus GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB DUAL MINI OC Video Card $419.99 @ B&H Case Cooler Master MasterBox NR400 (w/o ODD) MicroATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply SeaSonic FOCUS 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Case Fan ARCTIC Arctic F12 74 CFM 120 mm Fan $11.49 @ Amazon Case Fan ARCTIC Arctic F12 74 CFM 120 mm Fan $11.49 @ Amazon Case Fan ARCTIC Arctic F12 74 CFM 120 mm Fan $11.49 @ Amazon Case Fan ARCTIC F14 Silent 46 CFM 140 mm Fan Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $856.93 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-03 09:14 EDT-0400 It would be a plus if you could recommend some white coloured parts. I am sort of looking for a black and white design Thank you!

Hi. I have seen many Blender intros on youtube with a flashing light effect (most at the start of the intro), but I don't know how to do it. I hope you can help. Thanks in advance.

Im an amateur 3D artist and running into hardware limitations and renders make it impossible for me to do anything else on my PC for atleast 8-16hours. (also do a lot of test renders so it really sucks that I have to wait 8 hours to make a 2 second change and wait another 8 hours to fix it). I prefer CPU rendering over GPU rendering because of I find the extra render noise is not worth the speed ( examples https://i.stack.imgur.com/1e7XR.jpg https://i.stack.imgur.com/I8LGf.jpg ) Any CPU that has a better render time than my current i7-3770 is a good CPU for the server (http://blenchmark.com/cpu-benchmarks this is an incredibly relevant chart) Thank you in advance for your time !

I am planing to start a new Youtube channel and therefore upgrading my current PCs GPU and i would have gone with the RX 480, because its price/performance-ratio is about as good as it gets in my country and because i wanna play some games at 1080p. But after i did some research online i saw that some programs (like Blender) benefit from Nvidias CUDA acceleration but i couldn't find any current numbers. As of right now I might pick up a GTX 1060 instead, but I'm not to sure because its price/performance-ratio is not as good as AMDs RX 480. Has anyone experience with editing/rendering on AMD/Nvidia GPUs and can help me out? Im also not to sure how important the amount of VRAM is for editing/rendering: 1060 (3gb vs 6gb), 480 (4gb vs 8gb).

Hello Guys, I have been doing Blender 3D animation for a while now and my Gen 2 Thinkpad X1 Carbon is starting to be not nearly powerful enough for what I am doing. I think for my birthday in November I might build a more powerful PC for my animation and some light gaming (CS:GO), I'm thinking about spending around $500. For the graphics card, I've been considering a GTX 1050TI or just a plain 1050, a bit like this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NBHXR8A/ref=twister_B01N2QQH3J?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 Can someone recommend me a good 1050Ti please? Also, going for factory superclocked Graphics Cards are a waste of money, right? Also, In my laptop I have a i7-4550U with Intel HD Graphics 5000 http://ark.intel.com/products/75112 How much of a rendering improvement should I expect with a 1050Ti compared to my current CPU/GPU, will my projects' render times be one twentieth of what they are now, or better? Thanks for any help.

So what i was thinking was that every week, people could submit their INSANE blender projects. And then one or more would get picked and rendered. Sorta like this: This took 1 second per frame to render using some cool tricks (in desc.) 24 x 10 = 240 seconds of rendering on a decent graphics card (im guessing). If a day was to be spent rendering using a decent graphics card , it would be about 360 times more insane. And thats not even accounting for the amazing hardware Linus has. I think these type of videos could have alot of views (about 10 of this guys videos has broke 100k views, and some even have 500k views!) and the power consumption would therefore be paid back in ad revenue. Feel free to reply with your views, or thumbs this up if you agree .

Each and every attempt at rendering a Cycles scene within Blender is met with one of two errors: CUDA error: Illegal address in cuCtxSynchronize() CUDA error at cuCtxCreate: Illegal address What does this mean, and how can I fix it?

Hi, I'm looking to build a new system that can handle sculpting programs with ease, and also handle millions of polygons in Blender better. Main programs that will be used are 3D Coat, and Blender (and Cycles Render engine in Blender). Often I do very large scale scenes in Blender with thousands of objects, which invariably leads to huge amounts of polygons. I'm in Israel, but Canadian pricing can work for me as well as I'll probably compare in any case. Was thinking something around 2,000-2,500 CAD or around 6,000-6,500 NIS. Mostly I'm looking for good performance per dollar, but also a system that will see me down the years fairly well. I'm running two monitors at 1080, am looking to upgrade one in the future to 4k, but not immediately, so I'm not including any peripherals in the build cost. And other than an SSD, I've got regular hard drive storage covered. Currently I'm running a five year old system with 16 GB DDR3 of ram, an Intel i5 3570, and a Geforce GTX 660, on an ASUS P8Z77-V Motherboard. I'm thinking of going for a Ryzen 7 1700(x?), and a Vega 56 (or perhaps a GTX 1080 but the performance per dollar isn't great so it would need justification). Not sure if more than 16GB of ram is necessary, I've only ever run into issues with 3D coat wanting more virtual memory, and that may be me just accidentally going beyond the specs of the function. I'm not really sure if I plan to overclock or not, but if I did it would not be to a very significant degree, stability is a far more attractive to me. Here's where I'm at so far (prices in NIS): AMD Ryzen 1700 ------------------ 1390 (the 7 1700x is 1610 and might very well be worth it) (an array of MB options, I have no idea really what makes one better than another anymore) ?Asus Prime b350-Plus ---------------- 500 ?MSI B350 Tomahawk -----------------580 ?Gigabyte GA-AB350 Gaming 3 ----- 530 Sapphire Radeon RX Vega56 8GB ----- 2480 Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4 2400Mhz----775 (Could get higher Mhz like 3000 or 3200 for reasonable price, but I've been looking around and Ryzen doesn't seem to be able to handle above 2600Mhz?) WD Green WDS240G1G0B 240 GB SSD M.2 ----- 445 Corsair Hydro H45 ----------------------- 260 Sharkoon TF5 Case----------------------------- 295 Power supply I really don't know, something around 500-600w? Which will cost somewhere between 200-500 NIS. Totals out at around 6,505 NIS

Budget: 3,000 USD SOOO... I do a lot of 3D work. If I wanted the perfect build I guess I would buy a bunch of 24 core Xeons and a server BUUUT as I am a simple mortal I guess GPU rendering is the way to go. The amount of money wasted away in render farms has reached a boiling point and I desperately need a PC that can crush Maya, Octane and above all Blender Cycles. I have been diggin arround and I am thinking of putting together the following build. -CPU: Intel 7700k -CPU cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo -Motherboard: Asus Rog Maximus IX Code -Case: Form follows function. I couldn't care less about RGB and all that. So any recomendation would be wellcome. (Thinking of Cooler Master HAF-912) -Ram: HyperX Impact 32gb DDR4 2400mhz (16gb x 2) -Graphics C: Dual GTX 1080 Ti in SLI Please Note that this PC would be non stop rendering for several days. So all components need to be able to withstand all of that strain. Yes, I am the biggest noob when speaking of PC building. I don't even know hoy to put it together myself. Good thing Linus has a bunch of videos for that tho... Thank you for your help!!!!!

A thread to discuss all things CG including your renders, setup, workflow, hardware ( *As long is It's used for CG), etc. Any 3D suite is allowed (I'm personally Team Blender)

For reader's knowledge i don't have money for editing software and i am making videos for Youtube. I just wanted to know that "Is Blender a pro editor for making a 2d animation its complex (i use it but very detailed) ?". I know there are alternatives like Flash multimedia (i don't know any other). So brief me a lil on - Whether Blender is good for 2d animation or not and what are other alternatives(with a lil budget). Give a short answer i am not that techy (just a lil) and thank you for your support.

I'm trying to get quick render times in blender and I'm trying to figure out if 4x 1050Ti's be better then a single GTX 1080 in GPU Compute. Note: I only have a single 8 pin power connector or dual 6 pin connectors The reason I ask is that 4x 1050Ti's have 3072 CUDA cores vs the GTX 1080's 2560 CUDA cores.

Ok so ive started to look at Blender as C4D is an expensive thing to keep update with. I like blender in many ways its better than C4D....... apart from: Setup GPU in the prefs check Setup GPU in the render panel check Render... NOPE It just hangs on the this screen for maybe 5 seconds and blender shuts down and i'm back to my desktop... WTF I can see online that cycles and OPEN CL don't have the best relationship but there must be a way to fix it??????????

Hello! I need help on recommendations for Blender. My build budget is 3000$ CAD. I am gonna use Blender for 3D modeling and animations. I was thinking of a Vega 64 (Non-LC) and a i7-8700k. I am looking for help on advice on my build, to get the best performance possible within my budget. I do not want any error’s when I work on these 2 things and want respectable rendering times. Additionally, I want it to perform good, without any possible lag. Thanks!

So my $400 Toshiba laptop isn't cutting it anymore for me but I am extremely busy with school and other things that if I got a job I wouldn't be able to use this computer for 5 minutes once I got a decent one so I planned out a budget rig for me to eventually afford and am fairly happy with it. I plan on doing 1080p video editing including advanced Visual Effects (Like thunderbolts and laser type things), I plan on designing games with Unreal Engine 4, I plan on doing 3d Modeling, Animating, and Rending with Blender on this PC as well. I was wanting to know what you guys thought of it and I will only accept responses as usable if they only go within $820 more or less because I still need a monitor and OS to come with it. Also please don't give me any responses that may reduce my performance in Blender/UE4 for an SSD or another memory stick or something similar I plan on upgrading in the future. I might overclock it eventually if I get a different CPU cooler so keep that in mind so here is my build https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KzR7tJ Thank you!