Students/Former Students I YOUR HELP

[pro_swinny]

Hey guys I need your help for a University essay (Animation). I'm trying to come up with a computer that is powerful enough for rendering in programs like Maya and After Effects but is affordable on a students budget because I know a lot of people won't have something very powerful and won't have a lot to spend. How much would you be willing to spend on a new computer that would easily be good enough to last the next 3-4 years?

 

[Feronix]

I once helped this girl with a project where she had to find components for a €500,- PC that would be suitable for her school to use (Art & Technology, so that includes PhotoShop and 3D modeling) and I came up with a build using a 1TB Caviar Blue, i7 4770s (is cheaper and the stock cooler will suffice, also draws less power), 8GB 1600MHz RAM and even some features like USB3.

I ended up with a spec list of €498,58 (still had the wishlist ).

€500,- is around £413 pounds so I guess that would be the minimum I'd spend on something like that. Personally I'd toss in an SSD and a videocard, but those are not essential to school work.

 

[SeekaX]

i don't cheap out on PC parts anymore, so the minimum would be about 1000 euros. wouldn't use that for 4 years though.

 

[barnsley]

I'd personally say £600-700 minimum. My friend needed a rig for his game design course that would last 3-4 years so I think the total cost of the build came in that region. it was an i5 4670 based build with a 670 and 8gb ram. The ram was recently changed to 16gb.

-edit- obviously if its a non atx form factor things would be different as its usually costs a bit more.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Based off your signature i would say they only thing needing upgrading would be the GPU to a higher end AMD card such as a 280x if you can find a good price. I only recommend this card because both software support OpenCL which is much faster than using Cuda/OpenGL. If you have older versions of the software than depending on their technology support you may end up going for a GTX 770.

 

[MathiasBE]

Any help for Student?

I'm a student myself, studying to become an English and economics teacher here in Belgium. I'd say spending a 1000 euros is really the maximum for me. It's what I can afford when I save and work in the weekends. Anything more seems useless for me.
Hope it helped