Rendering pc questions

[jaybe1]

Hi all, My brother is in need of a new pc. He designs kitchens and showrooms and needs a pc to be quick for rendering the drawings. He uses a laptop at the minute but as the software gets updated its becoming slower and now needs a minimum of 2gigs of ram. The graphics card is also too small so has anyone any suggestions on what hardware he should use. I gave him my pc to try and he said its an awful lot quicker. My pc is geared towards gaming and the specs are as below

 

[Tenenbaum]

NZXT Tempest Case
Xigmatek Rifle Cpu Cooler
Q6600 Processor
x48 Mobo
9800gtx or 4850 Video card
Corsair 650w or more PSU
4gb g.skill RAM
Pioneer Optical Drive
500-640GB HDD
Arctic Silver 5

Pretty much sums it up.

If you need anymore help, let me know.

 

[veg1992]

Since he's rendering he has no need for a high-end GPU, unless he gets a GTX 260 or 280 since those can render or he could use a normal low-end GPU and then render on the Quad

Otherwise Tenenbaum's build is fine

 

[jaybe1]

so the cpu is what makes the rendering faster rather than a super gpu ?

 

[veg1992]

Yes, but you can render on GTX 260'S OR 280'S

 

[jaybe1]

why just those two
? sorry if its a stupid question

 

[NightSurge]

They have built in physics and CUDA which allows the processor to do other tasks besides render video.

 

[Redmo0n]

You could probably take the heatsink and the paste out of Tenenbaum's build since hes not overclocking (assuming) and doesn't really need a top end cooler.

 

[Pinscher]

Always nice to have atleast decent cooling when doing rendering though. It will stress all of the cores and the cpu will get pretty hot on a stock cooler.

 

[edbtzy]

is it an advantage if you use a quad processor and GTX together? or does that defeat the purpose? im in the same predicament as to what hardware to get for video editing. I kno im going to get a quad proc...im just debating on what GPU to get