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It's finally time my friends! Please help me not make a mistake!

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IvyKnight Productions

IvyKnight Productions

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Okay, long story short after 4 years of LONG LONG WAITING I can finally abandon this 7 year old bought on clearance horrid all in one HP garbage machine. I finally have the money saved to get a good computer within 1k or a LITTLE bit higher than that. I have a few options, and I've been getting opinions from literally everywhere I can find as this decision could easily change the course of my life.

After looking at so so so many computers I've narrowed it down to 3 possibilities, I'm asking for people who really know what they're talking about to please help me figure out what's right for me. Budget is 1k, my workload isn't anything super big or massive high poly, I mostly want things to work in the viewport/animating side of things, modeling, texturing. You can use a renderfarm for rendering if your computer isn't good enough, but you can't rent out the use of a viewport so the viewport being usable and faster is more important to me.


This is the best prebuilt I could manage to find, this company doesn't have a very good track record, and if you have any experience with them please do tell! Most of the tech has pretty good benchmarks but from what I've heard their PSU's and cooling systems are really bad 😭. However, it's got the one year warranty, I legitimately do not care for the lights it could just be a black box and I wouldn't mind. This is the most convenient one for me to get, unfortunately getting custom build is very difficult for me don't ask why 😭 so this is mostly asking if THIS V computer is good for Blender. I'm mostly worried about the PSU and cooling system, do they look good enough?

This is what I've just "made" on the CGDirector site, this also looks really nice, honestly at this point after working on this computer anything looks nice. But I need to know if it's worth it/good
CGDirector.com Parts List: https://www.cgdirector.com/pc-builder/?=6ObMb

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 4.7GHz 6-Core Processor ($229.00)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 ($69.90)
Motherboard: MSI PRO B650-P WIFI ATX AM5 ($183.90)
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070 8GB - Asus KO ($350.00)
Memory: 32GB (2x16GB) Kingston Fury Beast Black DDR5-6000 CL40 ($79.99)
Storage PCIe-SSD: WD Black SN850X 1TB NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive ($84.99)
Power Supply: EVGA 650 B5, 80 Plus Bronze 650W Power Supply ($94.99)
Case: be quiet! Pure Base 600 Black ATX Mid Tower Case ($89.90)
Total: $1182.67

And then there's this one, I've heard some good things of NZXT so I figured I'd give their custom pc builder a try as well, is this any good?
 
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Alex Glawion

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Both the CGDirector and NZXT Builds will perform better, mostly because they have the X-variant of the 7600(X) which is faster, and they have 32GB of RAM, which I think in this day and age is a necessity especially if you're doing content creation. The 4060 is in fact slower than the 3070, even though it's newer gen (but lower tier really), so overall going the CGDirector Custom Build that you assemble yourself will net you the best bang for the buck.
 
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