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what hardware? PC Built from scratch or Pricey MAC Book Pro
Tanakov:
Id say that is stupid, you Get lower performance, It cuts Memory and the hdd sucks afaik.
Dont go mac, just dont..
borisquezadaa:
I second the NO MAC motion. Really.
I can get pretty decent results with an AMD eigth core and 8GB ram, Corona makes good use of multicore processors.
I suspect no one could get lower quality/cost ratio than that.
The graphic card is almost no use for rendering with corona and you can get a decent fps under max with the most cheapest nvidia or ATI card.
No need to waste money more that that.
My grain of sand.
drado226:
i have 8350 black edition 16 gb ram, test scene time is 8,31 slower result than others
and not cheap at all, 4770 or higher cpu is better, simply dont go AMD
Fibonacci:
Hi,
My offer if you lookin' something refurbished stuff from the ebay you'll be very fine...
For example I have ordered from USA my Dell Precision m4700 with half price an I got 3 years warranty with it. If I would to order this stuff from the DELL.Co.UK than tha price should be 2500 pound...From USA it was with VAT and shipping only 1200 pounds.
Great buying and I have an Quadro M2000 card in it and I dont have a problem with 12 million or more polys...16gb ram, SSD, Full Hd...etc., etc...
If you want to buy desktop workstation, then the best is same something DELL stuff.
The DELL is the best buy now.
casparagus:
I'd second the Dell Secondhand/refurbished option.
When first starting out in 3D, I got a Dell Precision T5400 on Dell Outlet for 700GBP - never had a single problem with it.
Then, expanding my studio, I bought refurbished Dell Precisions (from 3rd party seller), again never had a single problem with them. The fact that they had no or shorter warranty didn't bother me as they never broke.
Also, I bought last generation equipment. It's SO much cheaper (especially refurbished) that you can afford a much higher spec.
On the equipment I bought, I would usually save 50 - 75% compared to buying the equivalent spec new. I paid 700GBP each for four rack servers, which would normally cost just under 3000GBP each new.
If you are in the UK, Mo at la-micro.co.uk is very helpful with refurbished computers (they do HP and others as well). Unfortunately I'm in the US now so I have to shop around to find a new supplier.
Anyway I saved a bunch of money going that route. I've had a couple of problems with several different Dell laptops, but I've had no problems with Dell workstations or servers at all.
caspar
PS. for price/performance, I definitely recommend PC, not mac. I have a MacBook Pro (which was expensive) but that is just to have something nice when I am on the move. I do all my real work on my Dell Precision.
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