Hi guys 

I'm looking to buy a new comp for IC6. I'm no wiz at building my own so I thought I'd run these systems and prices by you guys and see what you think. Looks like the 2 Cyberpower units got the best rating but...what do you guys think all are good, some are good, none are good? Thanks for your looking at them.



pete
 


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My quick thoughts are:
Avoid the first one because it has a 2GB graphics card.  You definitely want more VRAM than that.
Avoid the last one, because iClone plays nicely with the Nvidia cards for PhysX and stuff (sorry to sound anti-AMD, it's nothing personal).

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My advice is skip all of those!

I would look for the cheapest GTX 1060/6 gig you can find.

Check out this one for 800 bucks on sale at Newegg.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883221303

What are your PC specs now ? you might just be able to put a new card in your system now and be fine..


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Especially if you want to move on to IC7 at some point, you want at least a GTX 1060 with 6GB, as Rampa suggest. Kevin has a point too: if your current PC has decent specs (I would say at least an i5 processor and 16GB of RAM), you may be able to just upgrade the GPU.

As I've mentioned in other posts, one of my older PCs has a i7 2600K processor and 16GB of RAM, and just by upgrading my card to a GTX 980 a few years ago, I gave it a new life. It's only a 4GB card though... 

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Thanks for the quick response everybody. I'm working on a pretty tight budget so I may have to wait on a system that has a 1060 card. We'll see. Will a 1050 card run IC6 because I'm thinking I could possibly upgrade the video card to a 1060 later. (?)

My current system has a i3 motherboard with a Radeon HD5700 card. It works fine for IC5 as long as the hamster doesn't croak but no help with IC6.

pete





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If you could afford a GTX 1050 Ti, which has 4GB, it will be OK for IC6. The regular 1050 has only 2GB and really wouldn't work very well. How much RAM do you have?

You will certainly see an improvement. I looked at the benchmarks for both the HD5700 and the GTX1050 Ti:

HD5700, score 968: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+5600%2F5700.
GTX 1050 Ti, score 5846: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+1050+Ti&id=3595.

That comes to about 6 times, plus you'll have more VRAM.

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Also. What is your current power supply? A 1060 would need a 400 watt power supply. 1050ti is probably about the same.

I wonder if upgrading just your GPU now might work. Then you could get a faster computer sans GPU later for pretty cheap.

Thank you again.   If I'm reading this right then, spec-wise speaking, the comp in the middle of the top row has the benchmark stats as it comes with a 1050ti card installed. I have no experience building one so I'm hoping for a pre-built system to cover it. I'm still going to look around for a machine with a 1060 card though, who knows I might bump into one that's in the budget. 

Thanks guys
pete
 


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