- Apr 5, 2014
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Hello all,
I'm looking to invest in a new tower within the next few months, and I figured this would be the best place to seek out some advice as to what I should look for.
Once I graduate from college in another year, my career will revolve pretty tightly around graphic design, and my MacBook is getting older — therefore unable to handle the increasing hardware demands of Cinema 4D, Adobe's 3D rendering in Photoshop, and other similar programs. iMacs are great and all, but I'm not spending upwards of $3000 on laptop hardware that's not upgradable and will be outdated in another 2 years (or probably already outdated). iMacs can't handle good 3D rendering software anyways. Windows PC is, without any doubt, the correct path to take that'll get me way more bang for my buck.
That is my "primary" reason for purchasing a new desktop Windows PC, though I've also been dying to get a PC built for gaming for as long as I can remember. Obviously the "ideal" gaming PC is used strictly as such, but the only other programs I plan on installing on it are those I've mentioned above (Adobe CC Suite, 4D Cinema, etc.). So it's not like it would make that much of an impact on the PC's performance, that is, to my understanding. All of the other every-day-life programs that I use will remain on my MacBook, such as Microsoft Office, and I will also only use my Mac for music production with Ableton Live 9 Suite, and so on and so forth.
This is probably way too much information, but to simplify everything I want to build a PC focused around gaming and graphic design. That's it — nothing else. I'm looking for any sort of recommendations as to which processor I should go with (the more power, the better), the best graphics card I should choose, HDD, fans/cooling, RAM memory, mother board, case, etc. I've had my eyes on this case in particular, but I'm open to any better suggestions.
Any and all help, suggestions, advice, or opinions are greatly appreciated!
I'm looking to invest in a new tower within the next few months, and I figured this would be the best place to seek out some advice as to what I should look for.
Once I graduate from college in another year, my career will revolve pretty tightly around graphic design, and my MacBook is getting older — therefore unable to handle the increasing hardware demands of Cinema 4D, Adobe's 3D rendering in Photoshop, and other similar programs. iMacs are great and all, but I'm not spending upwards of $3000 on laptop hardware that's not upgradable and will be outdated in another 2 years (or probably already outdated). iMacs can't handle good 3D rendering software anyways. Windows PC is, without any doubt, the correct path to take that'll get me way more bang for my buck.
That is my "primary" reason for purchasing a new desktop Windows PC, though I've also been dying to get a PC built for gaming for as long as I can remember. Obviously the "ideal" gaming PC is used strictly as such, but the only other programs I plan on installing on it are those I've mentioned above (Adobe CC Suite, 4D Cinema, etc.). So it's not like it would make that much of an impact on the PC's performance, that is, to my understanding. All of the other every-day-life programs that I use will remain on my MacBook, such as Microsoft Office, and I will also only use my Mac for music production with Ableton Live 9 Suite, and so on and so forth.
This is probably way too much information, but to simplify everything I want to build a PC focused around gaming and graphic design. That's it — nothing else. I'm looking for any sort of recommendations as to which processor I should go with (the more power, the better), the best graphics card I should choose, HDD, fans/cooling, RAM memory, mother board, case, etc. I've had my eyes on this case in particular, but I'm open to any better suggestions.
Any and all help, suggestions, advice, or opinions are greatly appreciated!
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