Best comp for C4D for $12,000?

[Sor Socheth]

Time is money and money is everything. NEVER mix and match anything when come to REAL working environment. Stay with one SOLID OS and one SOLID APP. You see alot of new cross platform these day. NEVER let that fools you. Those company only care for your money. I have to say pc is very solid these days, especial when come to work horse 3D rendering. When you needed help, someone is always on another line who been there/done that ordeal. If you are waiting for the tech, good luck with your business. Don’t rush yourself with new comers. They always give you problems. Individual users are totally B&W from a business stand point. Business don’t just upgrade their computer that easily. Money, Clients and Time are involve, investment wise.

I would recommend you buy a clone system from a refutalbe company. Don’t get the proprietary system. They make your uprade in hell while their tech is on vacation and you are stranded with you business. I don’t care if they claim their system is fast and reliable. Even with pc clone, most studio has their own onsite tech.

With $12,000, you can get the best system, rendering, graphicing, authoring and audioing…etc. It can handle C4D like a baby. C4D is rendering more faster and faster with excellent result.

I know this from first hand. I got friends who works at disney, sony, and studio pendulum. They recommend clone pc to me and I never regreted it.

They recomended pc with a intel xeon chip that has as hi cache as possible. With the spect I mention earlier, plus a 32/64bits backward compatable hardware.

Sor.

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[Simon Hutchinson]

I have decided to go with the boxx solution with seperate 16 core boston render node. This should give me options and scalability if I do decide to one day go down the maya route.

Having just sat through a 3 hour render on a ppc I am seriously looking forward to being able to offload it to a render node!

Many thanks for all your advice!