With the invaluable support of planetstardragon, I decide to buy a new PC with the following specs :

Case
COOLERMASTER 120 ADVANCED CASE + 450W PSU

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3770S (3.1GHz) 8MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® P8H61-I R2.0: Mini-ITX, LG1155, USB 3.0, SATA 3GBs

Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 660 - 2 x DVI, HDMI, - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit w/SP1

Delivery : tomorrow !

After 30 yrs of buying PCs I hope this will be the last one :ermm:

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You have a great sense of humor!!!  :w00t:

I hope you enjoy your new toy.  :)

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iClone 7... Character Creator... Substance Designer/Painter... Blender... Audacity...
Desktop (homebuilt) - Windows 10, Ryzen 9 3900x CPU, GTX 1080 GPU (8GB), 32GB RAM, Asus X570 Pro motherboard, 2TB SSD, terabytes of disk space, dual  monitors.
Laptop - Windows 10, MSI GS63VR STEALTH-252, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 (6GB), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD

Nice rig, you will enjoy it.

The last one...! :D  may be because desktops will gradually disappear :w00t:

I would have preferred a 650W Power Supply.

the 450 still makes it though - just not much room for heavy upgrading - but then the whole set up is pretty tight and should work amazing with iclone.

This is a chart I use for power supply reference - this computer is right 'on' spec

http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page362.htm

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Well, Lynn3D, after 30 years of buying PCs, you should know that this new one is just first of all future buying. :)
Seriously, if you can, double that Terabyte hard disk. Never, ever enough disk space.

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Just remember, build a computer for more than just Iclone. You will need to edit the video somehow, edit textures... Then questions comes to what kind of effects are you doing and what you are going to use. I have found 16gb limiting, but for most part it should suffice.



Alienware 15, i7 4710hq, GTX 970m, 16gb ram, 4k display, 1.5TB SSD raid.

especially if you get into modeling, i watched the modeling software laugh at my 16 gigs and overclocking lol - but then i did get a little click happy on the subdivide heh!! "why is my computer locking up ? the model is only 1 billion polys!"

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FWIW - One of several Projects to be combined into one here, is; 286,963 Polys & counting. 1.5GB for approx. 30 seconds, with the System in my Signature ;)

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Thank you all, I didn't expect there to be so many replies :)

This new PC may likely be the last one that I'll buy because I may be one of, if not the oldest member here and I'm having some serious heart problems.
My win XP pc is 5 yrs old and still going strong if it wasn't for iClone v. 5.5 so if the new PC lasts another 5 yrs it may outlive me :D

In fact I'm not even going to bother to reinstall everything onto the new PC but will run the two in parallel with a KVM switch with file transfer.

Modeling and texturing has a limit on import into iClone but regardless of that I've always modeled with a compromise between low-poly and still looking good.

@animatom

Only the software is stored on my hard disk, all files are on external hard drives. My win XP has a 250 Gb hard drive of which 202 GB is still free, I'm a stickler for keeping my machine clean, a remnant of the old days where space was at a premium ;)


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