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Which of these PCs would you buy for iClone??

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Which of these PCs would you buy for iClone??

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Wondering what the world of iClone users would recommend for the following PC purchase.

Coming from being a long-term Mac user who knows nothing of the PC world, I will be buying a PC specifically to run iClone. As my character models are nearly done, I am ready to make the PC purchase. Following a bunch of research and great advice from forum member animagic, I have narrowed it to the three PCs below. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

 

I will be recording my main character live in approximately one hour-long session at a time. I do have the ability to start and stop as needed. All will be edited and cleaned up in post. I have a second character that will be animated in either live or later.

 

Goals are to find a system that will smoothly run iClone, will be future-proof for at least a couple of years, and be not too expensive. If I need to buy a more costly machine, I will – but if I do not have to… well, great.

 

Looking just at the components, I have:

 

Unit 1: Uses Intel's i7 9700k CPU (a late 2020 design), with Nvidia 3060 graphics card with 12GB VRAM and 16GB RAM.

 

Unit 2: Same as unit 1, but Uses Intel's i7 9700kf - the difference between the k and the kf is how it handles graphics, but not yet sure what that graphic handling difference is!

 

Unit 1 & 2 are about $1500. The next unit jumps to about $2600.

 

Unit 3. Uses Intel's i7-10700k. A mid-2021 design. It uses the Nvidia 3070. It only has 8GB VRAM (maybe it is still more efficient than Units 1 & 2 even though they have 12GB VRAM) and has 32GB RAM.

 

I read the i7-10700 is faster than the i7-9700, but the 9700's are still incredibly fast, so 10700 may be overkill.

 

I also see a lot of PCs with AMD processors and not Intel. I limited my search to intel. I am leaning towards either Unit 1 or 2 and possibly bumping the RAM to 32GB.

 

What would you purchase from the above list? Would you recommend a different PC? All information is very welcome!

 

Thank you in advance.

 

 

 

 

 


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Forum Post Which of these PCs would you buy for iClone?? By Catahoula ( 4 Years Ago )
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Forum Post Thank you to all above. It is great information to have. I was feeling... By Catahoula ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post [quote][b]Catahoula (9/6/2021)[/b][hr]Thank you to all above. It is... By animagic ( 4 Years Ago )
Forum Post absolute beast of a machine! By davidmaximo ( 4 Years Ago )
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