I have a Dell XPS-8700 w/Intel i7 4790 and 32Gb RAM and a AMD Radeon RX470 video board. However, it seems very slow.After watching some of the webinars, I realize mine is extremely slow.Any suggestions on this machine, or what to purchase?Thanks!

I'm about to start building one myself, so currently investigating options.

What is your budget? 

I seem to have started with a £2500 Dell Alienware Aurora R7 spec, and whittled the component price down to about £1900 at the moment.  Hope to find the components cheaper.... Still looking! 



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No budget...want to stay under $2000
I had a salesman tell me that mine is a great machine and should be sufficient.
However, watching Kai's iRay rendering tutorial made me realize how slow it is.

It looks like all you need is a new Nvidia GTX card. Get the best one you afford, and that works with your power supply. I think a GTX 1060/6 Gig is a good minimum. The more VRAM, the better.

Prices are way low for the GTX 1080Ti these days with the release of their new products. You have plenty of ram so the card should do the trick.

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Thanks guys!
I thought getting twice the minimum "2Gb or higher" would do the trick.
Live and learn.

A 2GB "minimum" is actually "below minimum" according to most users here.

2GB = Tragic
4GB = Miminum
6GB = Good
8+ GB = Best

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It's sad that the RL sales literature is still not updated to what is realistic. "Minimum" is kind of a meaningless: it will perhaps open iClone, but you can't do anything with it.

I mean, the following for iClone 7 is so painful that it is beyond embarrassing, but it is what candidate users will see:

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How's an AMD Radeon RX-570 8Gb sound (only $260)?
A NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti w/11Gb is twice as expensive - but, I don't know if I'd gain that much.
I'm running 2 monitors and have a 600w power supply.

Certain features such as Global Illumination and the Iray renderer are only GPU-supported by Nvidia GTX cards. In case of an AMD card, those features use the CPU and system RAM, so they will be less efficient. To be further future-proof I would recommend Nvidia.

I have an Nvidia GTX 1080 with 8 GB VRAM and I run into limits, so 11 GB is no longer a luxury.

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