["2 GB gpu or 4GB gpu"]

Thank you very much, stusutcliffe, your post is very helpful to me, and hopefully it will be also helpful to someone else in future, cause out there isn't many threads about budget GPU-s and their ability in 3d Coat - and that's the shame, because budget cards like GTX 1050 ti or GTX 1060 3GB are more powerful then premium cards from 2012.

I've also like to thank to AbnRanger who was also more then helpful on this subject, and had recommended GTX 1070, but because of some budget limitations, I will probably go with GTX 1060 6GB model, and as soon as I have new card, I will share my experiences with rest of the community. 

["2 GB gpu or 4GB gpu"]

On 4/14/2017 at 11:52 AM, stusutcliffe said:

Thanks for the links, but i dont do ebay , anyway those links not in uk, still too expensive. Though I will keep an eye on the bidding just out of curiosity. ( computer stuff seems to be $1=£1 ...what a rip off! So in UK we pay 30% more or whatever the exchange rate is) 

The thread has gone off at a tangent ( that usually happens doesnt it!)

Basically I might as well be saying I want a new engine for my Nissan Micra and you guys saying "I know where you can a BMW engine cheap" 

Sorry, I am not trying to be rude about being helped, the answers were drifting away from my original question.

My computer is a cheap second hand workstation just to tide me over until I decide whether to call it a day with all this cg stuff, if i am still enthusiastic in when I hit 60 I will invest in a super-duper computer to see me out!.....so I just need the bare minimum to keep me going until then. So mainly getting this card to update Direct x to try some new stuff that wont run at the moment. My usual technology timeline is generally  4 years behind . I used a Geforce 9800 for 8 years!!!

I will get the 1070 in a couple of years when they are £100....you lot will be using  quantum computers  by then.... hee hee....

Hi, stusutcliffe, have you bought GTX 1050ti? What are your experiences with that GPU, how many triangles can you push in Voxel sculpting before 3d Coat start to slow down?

[Need hardware advice - building new PC / cheap workstation]

Hi, this is my first post to this forum, and if I am doing anything wrong, please let me know, and I will give my best to try to fix it. I would like to thank you guys firstly to be such a great community, although I didn't take part in your discussions, I've red many of your posts and they helped me a lot.

Although I am still a 3d Coat newbie, I have some previous foundation in drawing and concept designing, so it didn't took me long to realize outstanding power of this software, and I've decided to incorporate, to be more precise to MIGRATE majority of my work to it. But unfortunately, my PC does'n handles 3D Coat the best, so I've decided to build a new one, since this one has more then 7 years. 

So, since I don't know anything (almost) about computer hardware I've started deep search on NET and among other forums on this one about my future build. But majority of reviews is for GAMERS, and I wont play games on this PC, it will be semi-professional work station for: 3d modeling (3d Coat, MAX, Skethup, zBrush), Unreal engine, Keyshot,... Photoshop. So, since I don't have enough money to buy best equipment, I would like to ask you for your advice: what is the best value for your money today for: CPU, GPU, motherboard, how much RAM? to be able to perform with ease concept designing and visualization. 

My choices were GTX- 970 - because I've read somewhere about cuda cores, but few days ago on this same forum I've read that they are not playing that important role at all, so I am totally confused now, and I don't know should I think about R9 390 also?

For CPU I was thinking about I7 4790K, but then I've heard about RYZEN few months ago, and I am even more confused what to choose now for CPU then for GPU.

 

So, please HELP ME, and give me some advice. Thank you in advace