Powerful computer

[AdamHeard]

Glenn, Hawaii sounds like a great option, still have to finish school first though! What happens after that is still up in the air.

Originally Posted by scottydoh

Again, it all depends on what you're using the computer for. Outside of my FIRST involvement, I'm an architecture student, and a majority of my work is done in Autodesk Revit Architecture. And when it comes to renderings (the most resource hogging) Revit (and the render engine Mental Ray) could care less about my GPU, all it wants is CPU power.

With that being said, the System requirements pretty much covers it. Get a good CPU, memory is cheap these days, so get as much as you can, and a decent GPU and you'll be fine for most "FIRST scale" models.

That's not really a fair argument, as rendering is a completely different process and isn't affected by the computer's ability to push pixels to the screen. A slow GPU can make even a very high end computer a pain to CAD on as it's constantly struggling to keep up with you rotating, zooming in, etc...