I'm looking to upgrade/rebuild my PC and need some help please, as I'm new to all this.
Primarily I'm working with 3Ds Max, Photoshop, Mudbox, etc. and I also use it as a media station (films/music), with very limited gaming (Anno 1404, etc.). I'm using two monitors. The PC is very slow when rendering and can't handle using multiple programs at the same time, ie. rendering frames, playing video and using Photoshop together. I need it to be able to cope with this. (Waiting half an hour to render 100 frames and not being able to do anything else in the meantime is not ideal!!) The specs are:
Acer Aspire X3400 (SFF)
AMD Athlon II X2 220 Processor 2.8Ghz
DA016/078L Motherboard
8GB RAM
640GB hard drive
Win7 64 bit
220 PSU
NVidia GeForce 9200 (integrated)
I hope that's enough info. Having looked things up on the net, I realise that I'm going to have to completely overhaul it, but there are so many variables I'm not sure where to start. I have a standard case that I can move everything into, as there isn't enough room in the current case to fit anything in. Can I transfer the current motherboard and CPU into a larger case and buy a new GPU and PSU, with the option of changing the mobo/CPU later or would it be wise to just start from scratch? Unfortunately I'm on a bit of a budget, so I guess I'm asking for suggestions on how you'd all go about it. I was recommended to go for a FirePro graphics card and 600+ PSU, but this is well beyond my means. Having looked at everything out there I'm completely bamboozled, so any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
Primarily I'm working with 3Ds Max, Photoshop, Mudbox, etc. and I also use it as a media station (films/music), with very limited gaming (Anno 1404, etc.). I'm using two monitors. The PC is very slow when rendering and can't handle using multiple programs at the same time, ie. rendering frames, playing video and using Photoshop together. I need it to be able to cope with this. (Waiting half an hour to render 100 frames and not being able to do anything else in the meantime is not ideal!!) The specs are:
Acer Aspire X3400 (SFF)
AMD Athlon II X2 220 Processor 2.8Ghz
DA016/078L Motherboard
8GB RAM
640GB hard drive
Win7 64 bit
220 PSU
NVidia GeForce 9200 (integrated)
I hope that's enough info. Having looked things up on the net, I realise that I'm going to have to completely overhaul it, but there are so many variables I'm not sure where to start. I have a standard case that I can move everything into, as there isn't enough room in the current case to fit anything in. Can I transfer the current motherboard and CPU into a larger case and buy a new GPU and PSU, with the option of changing the mobo/CPU later or would it be wise to just start from scratch? Unfortunately I'm on a bit of a budget, so I guess I'm asking for suggestions on how you'd all go about it. I was recommended to go for a FirePro graphics card and 600+ PSU, but this is well beyond my means. Having looked at everything out there I'm completely bamboozled, so any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
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