Game Dev

[MACGYVR]

So my brother has been game developing for a while and wants to upgrade his pc to render better and stuff. I'm the only pc tech savvy whatever, and I'm pretty sure I know what to get for his new pc, but just in case there is anyone out there with indy game dev experience, I would like you to speak up on what you would recommend. He isn't making money off his games, yet. He is working on his first game to sell, (starting) and thats why he wants to be able to add awesome graphics and stuff.

 

so here is the parts I have considered.

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/MACGYVR/saved/98x7YJ

 

the idea is to upgrade the gpu later to 2 nvidia cards, and the cpu... eeeehhh, i wanna get him the 4790k but money...money money money. aint got none lol.

 

keep in mind also that He is not professional, he has never taken any college classes, he is still in highschool,  I just want to insure he can render decent awesome graphics into his games.

(also his claimes are to have BF4, FarCry 4/Primal graphic simular quality. ) I was thinking more along the lines of Rust or ArmA 3 which is still pretty good too.

I thought about an actual rendering gpu but his budget didnt allow it, and I believe most of his rendering will be cpu so I am "more" cpu focus right now.

 

but if he starts to make the moolah from his games then I would upgrade him to something like this: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/MACGYVR/saved/vRqG3C 

 

anyway, do you guys think the first list with modification will cut it for him to render decent graphics into his game?

 

thanks

-MACGYVR

[Guest]

what you could do is buy some 12-18 core cpus on ebay and a dual socket motherboard to blow his socks off

[daniellearmouth]

Bump up the CPU up to a Xeon E3 1231.

 

The performance of an i7 at the price of an i5.