Desktop PC required to run Blender.

bawbster · 4 Jun 2021

Hi folks wondering if you guys could help. Son has decided he wants to get into 3D animation and Blender is the software he wants to do it with. Don't have a clue when it comes to this stuff, so hoping you guys can help.
Budget is £500 which I guess is low but don't want to go overboard incase he doesn't want to do it.

This is the requirements for blender.
Hardware Requirements
Minimum

64-bit dual core 2Ghz CPU with SSE2 support
4 GB RAM
1280×768 display
Mouse, trackpad or pen+tablet
Graphics card with 1 GB RAM, OpenGL 3.3
Less than 10 year old

Recommended

64-bit quad core CPU
16 GB RAM
Full HD display
Three button mouse or pen+tablet
Graphics card with 4 GB RAM

Optimal

64-bit eight core CPU
32 GB RAM
Full HD displays
Three button mouse and pen+tablet
Graphics card with +12 GB RAM

Thanks guys

sxturbo · 4 Jun 2021

Yeah that's all fairly standard stuff.

Really any pc you buy will be able to handle it. But you must ensure the graphics card is not built in.

I know the cost of pc' s and chips have risen quite drastically so £500 won't buy you as much as it did a year ago

Edit: I've just had a scout around and your budget needs to be upped by £150-£200 to get the recommended specs

mattylad · 4 Jun 2021

If you want to do 3d and blender then forget the first 2 options and treat the optimal one as a minimum.

bawbster · 9 Jun 2021

sxturbo said:
Yeah that's all fairly standard stuff.

Really any pc you buy will be able to handle it. But you must ensure the graphics card is not built in.

I know the cost of pc' s and chips have risen quite drastically so £500 won't buy you as much as it did a year ago

Edit: I've just had a scout around and your budget needs to be upped by £150-£200 to get the recommended specs

Any recommendations on the PC.

Diver Fred · 9 Jun 2021

Not sure where you are in the country but with the constraints you have I'd be contacting one of the UK's PC building companies, e.g. Mesh, Nova, for a price and spec.

sxturbo · 9 Jun 2021

bawbster said:
Any recommendations on the PC.

Ebuyer sometimes have deals on,

Avoid Amazon, eBay etc.

Sometimes it pays to build it yourself, though it tends to not really work out much cheaper and you will have to have an idea as to what your doing.

Otherwise as wgt said

alan.1 · 7 Aug 2021

The problem is that prices for graphics cards have risen to ludicrous levels in the last year or two and are practically unobtainable nowadays as they're all bought up by bitcoin miners, and you really want a graphics card if you're going to be handling 3D animation and such. This has put a lot of people off high-spec PCs.

Absolutely avoid eBay and Amazon as sxturbo said. They may have attractive prices but it's all garbage. You want something with an i5/i7 CPU, a dedicated graphics card, at least 16GB RAM, and a decent dedicated graphics card.

Desktop PC required to run Blender.

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