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My budget is £1000. I will be using this for game development only. The programs I will be using are:

- Unity, Maya / 3DS Max, Photoshop, Zbrush, Visual C# Studio

Also, I have just a general question about the Quadro cards and Xeon CPUs. Would they be ideal for game development? I will mostly be focusing on the 3D side (i.e. models, etc.).

Thank you very much.
 
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Considering 1000 Euro budget, I can tell you cannot go for a Quadro or a Xeon processor. Even Quaddro K2000 GPU costs 425 USD in USA. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133483&cm_re=NVIDIA_Quadro-_-14-133-483-_-Product)

About Xeon's you can go for the E3 series which features 4 cores. They are around 200 USD in USA. It could be purchased.

About the GPU, I really do not know what would be the best for designing because all designing cards (FirePro, Quadro, Titan) are extremely expensive. For that budget you can go for a gaming CPU which could be a GTX 770 or R9 280X.
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Considering 1000 Euro budget, I can tell you cannot go for a Quadro or a Xeon processor. Even Quaddro K2000 GPU costs 425 USD in USA. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133483&cm_re=NVIDIA_Quadro-_-14-133-483-_-Product)

About Xeon's you can go for the E3 series which features 4 cores. They are around 200 USD in USA. It could be purchased.

About the GPU, I really do not know what would be the best for designing because all designing cards (FirePro, Quadro, Titan) are extremely expensive. For that budget you can go for a gaming CPU which could be a GTX 770 or R9 280X.
 
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Hmm, that's what I'm thinking about doing (although a 760), and that's what someone at PC World recommended (with going with a gaming GPU). I can go a bit over £1000, so I'm thinking of SLI-ing this card:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00FWN9PPQ/ref=gno_cart_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Thanks for the response.
 
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SLI'ing that card does not seems best thing to do. Each card will have 4 GB of Memory which means you will have 8 GB of memory which is not even required for ANYTHING. Your first priority must be CUDA amounts. If you have budget to SLI that card I recommend you going with this one :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Palit-Nvidia-GeForce-Jetstream-Graphics/dp/B00JQ0OLNC/ref=sr_1_sc_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1404765705&sr=1-3-spell&keywords=palit+gtx+780+jetstram

It has more CUDA cores than an SLI'd GTX 760, Also 6 GB of VRAM (which is still bit of much) with 384 bit of memory bandwith.
 
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The 6GB of VRAM is also unneeded, even if you were using two 1440p monitors... It may eventually be needed in the future though. 3GB of VRAM is enough in my opinion.
 
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Yes you are right. 3 GB is enough (as I mentioned 6 GB is bit overkill too.) however, there is a small difference ,25-30 pounds, to pay for 3 GB extra VRAM. It will possibly be required in future. Also I think 384 bit BUS is too much for 3GB. I mean, we use 256 bit BUS for 4 GB VRAM, which is a balance*. 3 GB ncould be perfectly utilized with a 192 bit BUS. Thus, I recommended 6 GB VRAM.

*What I mean with balance is, you don't buy a 64 bit BUS for 4 GB VRAM. You check for utilization of the VRAM. 1 GB of VRAM requires 64 bit BUS bus at least.

Whereas, if OP has chance to gain money soon or some time later, he/she could SLI the GTX 780 3GB palit to get 6 GB VRAM on 768bit BUS with more than 4000 CUDA cores.
 
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