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Cheap Build For Basic Rendering/Animation

Anhedonia_79Anhedonia_79 Posts: 6
edited December 1969 in New Users

Hi there Daz community. I am hoping to be able to purchase a new computer in the very near future and was wondering if anyone had any tips on computer specs and where to have it built. I have a budget of maybe $500-600 (certainly not more and cheaper if possible). My primary computing interests are animations (love to use DAZ). I'm looking for a desktop that I can expand upon later if necessary/possible, but would like to have something that I can work with now. Something that won't crash on me when I'm trying to render with settings other than Daz standard render settings or that won't have lag when navigating around my scene. My current laptop makes posing a pain because of this lag. I see all these videos of people fluidly moving their characters and I'm getting a little envious. Any suggestions?

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,312
    edited December 1969

    Thread moved to New User where it should get more replies.

  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449
    edited December 1969

    There should be no lag when posing a nude figure but if the figure has clothing with Smoothing Modifier applied that will cause lag as smoothing collision is recalculated for every change in pose unless you switch off the modifier.

  • zombiewhackerzombiewhacker Posts: 684
    edited December 1969

    A month or so back I asked a question similar to yours (I'm currently in the market for a good laptop). Hopefully, you'll find this discussion thread helpful.

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/45763/

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914
    edited December 1969

    I personally prefer desktops as they are much easier to upgrade and usually cheaper. For example, with a $500-600 budget, I could easily go with 32GB ram, a new MB to support it and a 8-core 4 ghz processor. which would be killer for Daz

    Another personal preference, AMD they are nice and powerful and much cheaper than intel.
    I've been a little out of it as of late, but I believe AMD's current socket size is the AM3+
    While they do have other sizes, I believe this current one offers the most options and if I remember right, can use the older AM3 chips as well.

    My observation of Daz in the short time I've been using it goes something like this...
    RAM dictates how large your scenes can be while CPU controls how fast you render (although RAM does play a part in this as well)

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