3d apps build (reloaded)

Hi everyone, one month ago i asked on the forums for build suggestions, now i havent bought my machine yet so i guess there's room for improvement and new components! budget is still the same, but id rather stay below.

from the previous post:

Theres an expression in italian that says "like a fish out of water", no idea if there an equal in english, but thats exactly how i feel now that i have to build my next PC system. Im a student of game design and spend a lot of time in front of my pc for work and for pleasure.

Been working a lot with 3d applications like 3dstudio max, maya, zbrush, mudbox, all of them having huge problems with my actual pc when handling scenes of 50k polys. (except mudbox, where i can work up to 4mio polys). my aim would be working with 1gb big files and around20 mio polys per scene.

the problem is, thinking "ill get a good grafic card and all will be fine" sounds a bit minimalistic, so im here to ask you guys (and i hope you know better than me) which components are essential for working fluently with 3d applications. On the other side, i also play on that pc. Im not the kind of guy who has 20 last.gen games installed at a time, so for instance a good velociraptor300gb will do on that field..

my budget is around 1600-1800euros, 1400-1500gbp... (screen included, 22-26inch)
if any of you has good builds to point out on that matter, or a guide for that specific matter, or knows about people working in that scene being very happy with a product, please let me know..


interesting things said in the previous post:


-Ideally you would work and play on different machines, because you would get better work performance from a workstation GPU

-3d applications make use of CUDA which helps a lot in rendering ati hasn really got anything that can match it

-Nvidia drivers play better with professional programs such as those.

-going LGA1366 (aka i7 920) will be a better option as you will be able to use the i9s which are hexacore CPUs later. You should notice a decent performance increase with an i9 upgrade down the road. And no, i9 will not be available for LAG1156.

-None of those 3D applications take advantage of SLI/Crossfire. Look into getting a more powerful single card that will be also fast enough for gaming.

-could probably get good performance from SSD, might be worthwhile to have an OS/Programs/Working Directory drive, and then have a RAID 1 backup.

here the link to the old thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] l#t2002809

no suggestions?

any reason for suggesting such "outdated" gpu? ive ben thinking about it aswell, it would be a possibility waiting for nvidias new series to come out... really not sure about getting a 5xxx

so at the shop where i plan to buy those vertex ssd are damn expensive and i was wondering is this one http://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDeta [...] kel=164691 is a good alternative
it costs 50dollars more than the vertex 60gb but is 128gb