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What graphics card do you use?

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  • 04-07-2012 3:14pm
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    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,302 ✭✭✭✭


    Modes, please leave this here, rather than moving it to the Computers section, as it's specific to this section.

    Hello all,

    A workmate is planning on building a PC to draw pictures with a CintiqH, along with zBrush and 3Dmax, etc. Now, as it's not for gaming, I have little or no idea what type of card to be looking for. Should a typical medium to high end gaming card be enough, or should he be going for a certain card that can help him create models better?

    He'll be getting in about two months, if that makes a difference. He'll be getting 16GB's of RAM (seems ZBrush uses lots of it), and the rest of the system is undecided atm.


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    Lone Stone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    well it's actually the processor the things like maya, max and mudbox/zbrush use when your working , So he should really just try get the latest processor, and a good cooling system working in 3d etc can really make your computer over heat, im currently able to fry egg's on my laptop. As far as i know the graphics card only really comes into to play when your rendering out work but not to sure if this true or not its just stuff ive heard.

    Just ordered a new pc myself, For gaming & Work, Getting a SSD drive on it would a good choice if he could afford, You get some fairly large file's when doing 3d/2D work.

    Here's what i got, il probably upgrade to an SSD drive at some stage.

    Case COOLERMASTER CM STORM ENFORCER - GAMING ENTHUSIAST CASE

    Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3770 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache

    Motherboard ASUS® P8Z77-V: PCI-E 3.0 READY, WIFI, SLI, CROSSFIREX

    Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)

    Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 670 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

    Memory - 1st Hard Disk 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

    1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

    Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

    Power Supply CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£86)

    Processor Cooling SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)

    Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

    Network Facilities 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

    USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

    Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence


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