Hi,
I've just had to quit my job as a 3D Animator/Game Developer due to moving house and am hoping to work freelance, or on personal projects for a little while... only problem is I have no idea about hardware (work supplied a constant flow of free hardware so I never had to worry, most of the time I didn't even know what I was using) I had to give my workstation back though.
My home PC is, well, dated to say the least (AMD 64 3500+, 1GB Generic DDR Ram, nVidia 6200 256MB TC ) so working with most software let alone high-poly models in Maya/3Ds Max/zBrush is a nightmare.
If anyone could spec me a PC I'd really appreciate it, I have a maximum budget of around £1000 so obviously it isn't going to be the best of the best, I just need it to perform well in the tasks mentioned above, and of course, games. I have spec'd one myself, I'm just interested to see how different bits are other people might spec. (If anyone does.)
Only a few things:
I was going to go for a cheap quadro/fireGL but firstly only the budget ones are in my price range and those ones seem to be pretty useless for games. (I'd love to hear anyones opinions on this, and how well people get on with Maya/3Ds Max on a none-workstation card such as the 8800 GT/GTX)
Ideally I'd like to make it as quiet/'silent' as possible, noise is one thing I'm really fussy about, can't concentrate at all with lots of noise.
...I think that's it, Thanks in advance! And sorry for the long/boring first post