How to Build a PC for Blender 3D - Low, Mid, and High Tier

[@dandawson1982]

Excellent video sir! I actually JUST finished my 3D build last weekend. Went with a Ryzen 5900x with an RTX 3080 12gb model. I personally chose Western Digital blue m.2 2TB model for OS and some project storage, and a cheaper more budget friendly 1TB Crucial P2 series m.2. If you're tight on cash and want an m.2, Crucial P series is the way to go. Went with just a modest Be Quiet air cooler. Highest temps I've seen were in the mid 70's, nothing to too alarming. The 3080 is just a dream! I really wanted the 3090 but just couldn't justify shelling out the extra thousand dollars. General rule of thumb I heard though, is that no matter your budget,if your build is GPU centric, make sure half of your entire PC budget goes towards the GPU.

[@Kitsu9ee_]

umm it will bottleneck

[@HeLIEl]

You can use affirm, Afterpay or Zip to pay a low payment bi weekly or monthly over time for your GPU instead of paying the full amount all at once. They don’t go off credit and you can build your credit with them too

[@flagwashere]

@@Kitsu9ee_ No, that will not.

[@joiztv9012]

@@HeLIEl this is just dumb better paying it at ones and not paying additional taxes.

[@AhmadKadi10]

Thanks for sharing your pc specs, I have a question, I'm building a pc for Blender 3D work, do I need 2 SSD for cash and windows and apps, and then another HD for saving the files? Or one SSD is enough?

[@RogueAstro85]

Thanks for this! You helped me so much on my first PC build. I went for a Ryzen 7 7700x and an MSI RTX 4070 Ventus 3x 12G OC with 32G of RAM. So far I've been able to do some crazy scenes since I'm looking to do experimental stuff that kinda pushes blender and my viewport is rarely lagging and renders are pretty impressively fast. Though that doesn't always stop blender from crashing lol. Big upgrade coming from my MacBook that couldn't even render the default cube in cycles. Plus it's running games really well too, so it's not just for productivity. Also I went to the Micro Center near me for the first time and damn, that place is insane!

[@lavatr8322]

thats hell alot of budget also does intel/ AMD CPU matter?

[@RogueAstro85]

@@lavatr8322 Microcenter had a bundle that saved some money, but I ended up needing to replace the RAM anyway. Plus the Ventus was on sale when I bought it. And no, AMD vs Intel doesn't really matter for blender specifically. From what I've read Intel used to be the preferred choice because it has a strong single thread which was beneficial when working in the viewport, but blender has become more multi-threaded so AMD works fine. Unless you have a program you use that requires heavy single threaded tasks, it's really up to preference. At this point they're basically the same except in certain use cases

[@JosephElvissManzano]

Is AMD better than Intel?

[@RogueAstro85]

@@JosephElvissManzano No real difference nowadays. It's only important to get a Nvidia graphics card

[@SHIVAM.M.S]

This video should be a default thing every year for a new version of blender 💯 not just because micro center is sponsoring‼️

[@3sotErik]

@3:26 seconds you misspoke about AMD having ryzen 3000 5000 exc. to represent the tier. The number in thousands represents the generation. Ryzen 3, 5, 6, 7 etc. are the tier

[@chryssdale5747]

So CPU - Viewport performance and Cache for baking and simulations GPU - Rendering RAM - Overall Performance Correct?

[@amanda.collaud]

And lots of VRAM for particle effects.

[@75d34]

1:45 to 3:30 isnt correct if a cpu has more cores that dosent mean that they are weaker... for example the i9 13900k has 7 percent higher single core performance than the i5 13600k while having more cores and being in the same processor generation

[@TonyoPet]

Maybe a mis-edit at 23:32? I think you meant to remove that section up to 24:09? Seems like repeat info, and the second half is more helpful methinks.

[@giovannisalinas6966]

This was amazing! Thank you!

[@PowerBiWithVivek]

8 month before when I was learning from cgcookie's Instrutrial environment course , my laptop wasn't able to render even a single frame which has no texture with 8 gigs ram, 4gb gtx 1650 and cpu i5 10300H with 4 core with max 4.5 GHz ,I bought a 16 gigs ram and after putting in the laptop , i wanted to test performance change ,so i open that scene and rendered it ,I found out the scene was taking 23 gigs ram to load ,after that I was able to render the other scene on which I was previously working which was not open after few days

[@jasond5140]

Bruh i dont even have a GPU i only have ryzen 3 5300 u with vega igpu :(.

[@SHIVAM.M.S]

No one asked you 🤣

[@earthmatters2869]

My beast PC AMD 16 cores processor and 16 GB ram with 3200 Mhz and rtx gigabyte 3070 8GB GPU 500 SSD 2 TB HDD with liquid deep cool From one year salary 2.1 lakhPC build ( Joke now I am poor )

[@PowerBiWithVivek]

@@earthmatters2869 🤣

[@earthmatters2869]

@@PowerBiWithVivek but bro I really brought that PC 😅😅

[@SOURMlLK]

Exactly the info I needed. Thanks for a great video and being straight to the point!

[@RobertTolone]

Thanks for this; your tutorials are most excellent. I’m building a computer specifically for blender modeling/sculpting to 3-D printing. If you take large scenes and animation rendering out from a workflow you can build a great system on a tight budget.

[@MohammedOrganic]

Great . I found the right one I was looking for.

[@drugfreedave]

Here in 2024 taking notes! 🙌🏾

[@RomeoMan11]

In my case, GTX 1060 3GB works really unstable and slower than cpu in terms of render, so I use my cpu - Ryzen 3600 (I tried all render options: Optix, Cuda, Opengl) Friend of mine also has the same PC specs and he also has the same situation.

[@stuartfury3390]

Because thats not a good card for blender unfortunately.

[@ezaiya3194]

@@stuartfury3390 what cars?

[@stuartfury3390]

@@ezaiya3194 The Tesla.

[@nodecrasher4991]

1060 3gb is old as hell not to mention at the time of its release it was a mid tier.

[@joshhockey9]

@@nodecrasher4991 It was low tier, borderline joke. The 6gb version was mid tier.

[@ellmango]

i feel like this video could have been 3 minutes tops

[@mrlightwriter]

Of course, but the monetization talks louder...

[@kalubandali2241]

yep but he just trying to get a video out for money

[@ezaiya3194]

Nah man

[@RogueAstro85]

Nah, as someone who roughly understands the components of a computer and doesn't know anything about building a pc, blender performance, or what constitutes low/mid/high tiers in this context, this video was a perfect starting point and helped me find my parts. I didn't even end up copying his parts, but he helped me understand everything well enough that I'm able to find what I want and ask questions online that fit what I want to do.

[@yimbroiskylong7081]

I feel you should take your time and eneegy to make it your self

[@trendypotato5963]

on the point of hybrid rendering I used to use the hybrid rendering for a long time and I found out that my pc used my processor (80-100% usage) the most while my gpu was at 50-70% usage and this is a disadvantage since the gpu has more cores and is better at rendering than the cpu so using gpu compute in blender is better.

[@garymarkham5179]

Thanks for the 3D PC build info 🙌🏻

[@darrenm303]

This is incredibly helpful

[@slowboatstudio]

motherboards dont usually support both ddr4 and ddr5. I think there is one coming out soon but I wouldnt waste time trying to find one.

[@indianocean29]

Extremely useful video. Thank you !!!

[@trevor4664]

If you are rendering professional grade scenes use cpu or xpu (cpu and gpu). Not many professional studios are using just gpu rendering. You can youtube the reasons why. Good video looking for mid level build for nephew

[@stuartfury3390]

Lol, because pro studios have render farms. If youre solo you absolutely should use gpu rendering. Optix obliterates any other render device.

[@trevor4664]

@stuartfury3390 That's why I said use xpu...

[@stuartfury3390]

@@trevor4664 but thats also not advised. Gpu only is faster than xpu most of the time. And it also means you can do other stuff on the workstation while rendering if your cpu isnt locked up (except for the few moments while the cpu preps the scene at the beginning of each frame).

[@Hassan_Omer]

Excellent tutorial

[@Instant_Nerf]

Doesn’t matter what you have.. grass will bring it down to its knees. 3-7 Hours of render for 20 seconds. Rtx 3090ti

[@X_soloo]

are you kidding? i wanted to start 3d editing but if its really so slow imma quit it 💀

[@RogueAstro85]

For real, I wish you could instance particles reliably but that seems to make it crash even more. Instancing some grass models can lighten the load but if you're rendering in Cycles, grass is absurd

[@Instant_Nerf]

I think Unreal is a better option. I can do more with nanite and lumen and in real time.@@RogueAstro85

[@harmony4075]

Super useful video, thank you so much!!

[@psblykrwn]

very informative! looking forward to one on laptops

[@neolordie]

minor correction, you can't a motherboard that support both ddr4 and ddr5, so you need to choose when you build your computer

[@aero3538]

Intel 12th and 13th gen motherboard does support both.

[@neolordie]

@@aero3538 nah, you either have ddr5 slot or ddr4 slots, it's not the same sizes, you can't have them at the same time

[@aero3538]

@@neolordie Oh is that so ..... I thought we can use both but seems both are different just the cpu can support both ram but need to buy dedicated motherboard for DDR4 or DDR5 Ram. Thanks for the clarification.

[@RogueAstro85]

Yeah, I was hoping to cut down cost on my build by getting DDR4 and leaving the option to upgrade to DDR5 in the future after watching this, but I quickly found out it was one or the other. Luckily micro center had a bundle with DDR5 that actually put me under budget than my previous DDR4 choice.

[@neolordie]

I live in europe, so micro center and crazy bundles like that don't exist lol, but I would say to just go ddr4 and take ddr5 on the next major upgrade, as of now the difference is negligible in most game @@RogueAstro85

[@silasmccord5924]

super helpful video. thank you!

[@nodecrasher4991]

Been working on flip fluids... Made a generally speaking small scene, played around and decided to bake it up at 400 res... My i9 10850k and 3090 are about to give me a hell. It's 2nd hour baking and it says another 5 hours, LOL... If the result does not worth it I'll go KMS.

[@Jh76102]

Thoughts on a gigabyte rtx 4070 v2 windforce or eagle windforce

[@SouthernShotty]

Haven't used those. So I can't recommend. I've used gigabyte products before with success. But I generally stick to OEM, Asus, MSI, or Acer brands when buying PC parts.

[@vuthanhtu3067]

exactly what im looking for, great video, cuse i have no idea what im dealing with, and i really scare that the tech company just trying to sell me thing that is way too expensive parts that maybe not what i need.

[@teabagNBG]

ive been using a i7 8700 + 32 gb with no GPU just the integrated uhd630, for the last 5 years... i surf alot and use illustrator alot for these two purposes its perfect... even after effects and premiere was ok for basic stuff...i dont game alot so most games even was playable at very low settings and resolution... a year ago i started blender and i really want a gpu ... rendering time is killing me... im looking into getting a cheap 3070 mini for 200 bucks now... i hope this will solve my problem also ... new build will def have 128gb ddr5 ram / 16th gen intel / and a rtx 5090 :D:D im already saving money LOL

[@caissa6187]

Excellent video. Thank you!!! ~new sub 🙂

[@nitheshk3365]

Is the rtx 3070ti 8gb good or 3060 12gb ???

[@arksenigma6883]

yes they are

[@SHIVAM.M.S]

3060 is good 💯

[@legoboom5480]

I use a 3060ti which has a lot of performance for the price

[@somerandomfatguy.3384]

@@legoboom5480 you know Its not for gaming.

[@nodecrasher4991]

Hard to asnwer 3070ti should be x1.5 faster, but it has less Vram

[@augm3nt384]

New blender users please stay away from ANY AMD GPUs for content creation and specially blender. Besides the performance being terrible compared to NVIDIA, AMD does not even support features such as raytracing and will drop support for hardware whenever it feels like. Buy NVIDIA , besides their hardware being way faster, their software support is WAY better.

[@ChristopherHemsworthCreative]

Thank you for this!

[@123jack7]

Can you tell me if I use CPU configuration I5 12400 vs GPU 2060, is it considered low or medium level in blender????thank

[@nodecrasher4991]

All I can say: depends on what you do and how big is your scene (Ram is also a thing required to cache n storage information) The bigger the scene and simulations the more ram. Other than that no single cpu or gpu can render quick enough that you wont compain. Unless you have a huge pc farm

[@jeremymullins1294]

Which video card would you all recommend I upgrade to with my system? RTX 2070 8gb ARMOR Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-core MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge motherboard 64gb RAM Ddr4 Windows 11

[@SouthernShotty]

When Nvidia drops their new cards the 3000s will drop in price and ya could get one of those :)

[@jeremymullins1294]

@@SouthernShotty That sounds like a plan! thanks.

[@rokaspleckaitis566]

with specs that good you might as well get a 3090

[@RogueAstro85]

Did you end up going wjth NVIDIA?

[@Huberchet]

very weird advice for gpu i guess i should make my own blender pc video

[@CarbonAnimationProductions]

wait you could go to best buy and ask them to put together your pc parts???

[@mr.nafees947]

I have RX 6600 but when i render blender doesn't fully utilise it I set my render settings to HIP and tried selecting the GPU only for the rendering but it's not as fast as it should be to be honest any help would be appreciated My Specs: 16 GB 3200 MHz Ram i5 9600k RX 6600

[@excalibur4203]

I was actually thinking to buy that gpu. Is I'll be using it for blender and some indie game dev and some video edition and ofc gaming. Do you think this gpu is good? I'll be using i5 10400f and ik 3060 is better but 6600 is the most I can get in my budget

[@mr.nafees947]

@@excalibur4203 yea it's good In most cases just make sure to check that your motherboard has pcie 4.0 become I have 3.0 motherboard and it is unable to utilise my GPU at 100% in most cases otherwise it's performance is really good.

[@augm3nt384]

AMD performance and stability in blender is terrible. Get a NVIDIA GPU for any kind of content creation, AMD is not supported in most programs.

[@mr.nafees947]

@@augm3nt384 yea you are absolutely right, but I think they are constantly working on stability, in the recent updates they doubles the open-gl performance, and as far as I know blender use open-gl for rendering, but amd is not perfect for blender honestly till now, but I am pretty sure that in the upcoming years they will surely make amd GPUs stable for blender.

[@augm3nt384]

@@mr.nafees947 Unlikely it's ever going to get better specially in blender. I've been following the AMD development a little before CyclesX and it's a complete shitshow. Other software such as Meshroom etc. Do not support AMD GPUs. I don't think it'll ever get better. Even Unreal has issues with AMD.

[@carrotylemons1190]

do you know roughly how much better a 2000 series would be over a 1000 one for nvidia gpu's?

[@BeheadedKamikaze]

Considerably better, pretty much without exception (though you should stick to at least RTX 2060 or above). The reason is they have the RT cores and OptiX, which the 1000 series does not have, and it will allow you to accelerate about 25% beyond pure CUDA alone. And they also have more CUDA cores.

[@wandererg5647]

DDR4 RAM is not compatible with DDR5 motherboards

[@aleksei7479]

this pc suits obly for modeling in Blender, nothing more

[@hamidrezaamirpour9007]

thanks for this.. I want to start the blender And My CPU is Ryzen 3100 4-core And I have 16 GB of RAM What graphics card do you recommend for this system? Is 1650 suitable? Due to the weak CPU and motherboard Is it reasonable to buy a stronger graphics like 2060?

[@ezaiya3194]

Personally I don’t you should get a 2060, I bet if you had a slightly better cpu like the 3600 you could probably get away with it

[@ezaiya3194]

I think the 1650 should do okay I’m pretty sure it performs similarly than the 1060

[@joshhockey9]

It's been about a year, but for anyone else in this situation... The best GPU you can manage to get, and your PSU can handle (unless you can / will upgrade the PSU as well). 1650 is not a good choice at only 4gb vram and overall being very weak. A 1060 6gb is going to blow it out of the water, and it will still be kind of a crappy experience. Your CPU isn't really going to hold your GPU back for rendering. I'd suggest a 3060 12gb as the minimum if you can swing it, but something like a 1660 super is more than good enough to learn on, and would tide you over until you start getting into more serious projects.

[@GlitchingPixelStudios]

Finally!

[@starfluke_game_anime-ter]

THANK YOU, BRAVO

[@-CornDawg]

What? More cores mean weaker?

[@cg.man_aka_kevin]

The only problem is, there's no money to do all this and buy a GPU...

[@-CornDawg]

There are amd cards that support Ray tracing.

[@gamenation93]

You keep mentioning 3.6 Ghz isnt very fast but that is only the stock speed and not boost. Bit missleading. And you cannot have ddr4 and ddr5 on the same board like that. You are mixing way too many things.

[@user-mk1vk8uw3l]

Well i think the misleading part is that the upper tier like i5/i7/i9 cpu having all cores running at 3.6 Ghz, as only i3 has base clock speeds over 3GHZ, the i5, i7 and i9 has their base clock much lower than 3GHZ, even for a single core, yup this 3.6 can be their configured overclocking speeds for single or multicore. You may find this in specifications of 14th gen intel i3/i5/i7/i9 with turbo boost going upto 5GHZ but base clocks are lower than 3GHZ except their i3. And that DDR4 and DDR5 thing is totally incorrect and you got that absolutely right. DDR4 MB is not at all compatible with DDR5 and vice versa.

[@user-mk1vk8uw3l]

My Bad, the K variants of i5/i7/i9 has their base clocks over 3 even 3.5GHZ, and the Non-K variants have below 3GHZ

[@martindenis3250]

HI, i already have a 3070, is a god choice get a ryzen 5 7600? the price is in my wallet plus i want the socket am5 for future upgrades .

[@MaximaGrafika]

ryzen 9 7900x👍

[@ucantra6919]

Very nice....

[@freegame7520]

I got of the hand R7 3800x RTX 3080 🎉🎉🎉

[@Nkanyiso_K]

Wish I had this when I was buying my PC

[@SHIVAM.M.S]

No one asked u 🤣

[@ObscureHedgehog]

4090 ti founders edition when?

[@mrlightwriter]

September/October this year.

[@sukdevray7568]

Bro r u teaching us how to use a website..?¿

[@lohlundgames]

It's just pain to see you choosing the rtx 2060 and not the rtx 3060 wich was cheaper in the video and has more performance...

[@shawn3719]

rtx 2060 super is enough for mid range and it is so good ..

[@HeLIEl]

I am getting a 5950x, rtx 3090, 128gb of ram, and 8tb m.2 components for Blender just for high quality and performance

[@mrveguita]

is 5950x good?

[@HeLIEl]

@@mrveguita From what i heard it's great for it

[@nodecrasher4991]

@@mrveguita All depends on scenes, if scene is big you can render weeks, months (unless, obviously, you have a power farm)

[@amanda.collaud]

@@HeLIEl I dunno, if you render in blender you should put all ur money on gpu with lots of vram. If your file is bigger than 24 GB you go for CPU+Ram. I dunno why u wanna focus on both, 128 gb RAM + 5950x wont be very fast. I was at the same point as you and needed 50 gb for my particle scenes. I opted for 2 x rtx 3090 with Nvlink instead, they are 3-5 times faster than your cpu and hv alltogether 48 gb Vram. I would advise you to not go the CPU +Ram path. But I dunno about ur project, so... . Rtx 3090 is really cheap now anyway. Good luck with all you do.

[@HeLIEl]

@@amanda.collaud I got a 4080 16gb of vram i am great now

[@peterxyz3541]

Tell, never show

[@christianchristiansen7117]

Do a pc of 500 USD will work?

[@JarppaGuru]

buy part build pc? or use what you allready have and install blender 2. now your blender run faster than back them xD

[@EngineerDJ_Julius]

yep, no such thing as a "cheap workstation"

[@Valk-Kilmer]

Stop going for the default route just 'because that's how it used to be' with Intel. It isn't the early 2000s anymore. AMD is far better.

[@Anton-zb9dc]

The main thing is to run linux!

[@kuankuanlin669]

never heard of nvme2.... also DDR4 motherboards clearly don't support DDR5 so I don't see how one buys a motherboard with the intention of upgrading RAM to a different generation also not sure about recommending a 2060 in 2022 overall a lacking, obsolete and ignorant video

[@sourishsharma17]

yeah ngl some stuff is kinda misleading...

[@donnydarko7624]

Right? With the 40 series coming shortly I wouldn't buy anything less than a 3060 right now. A 10th gen processor is better than 11th Gen if you're not getting a 12th Gen. You can find storage, a power supply and faster ram for cheaper by doing some Google searches pretty quickly. Microcenter's prices on graphics cards are not competitive whatsoever.

[@kuankuanlin669]

​@@donnydarko7624 I fully concur with the graphics card statement, especially as next gen (RDNA3 and Lovelace) are both set to be fairly large performance uplifts over current-gen. With the state of intel over the past few years it does indeed mean that 10th gen processors are still competitive (of course heavily price dependent). Definitely worth comparing prices around but I hear that Microcenter has good customer support if that is important to you. Don't live in the US so can't really comment further.

[@donnydarko7624]

@@kuankuanlin669 microcenter usually has great deals on motherboard and cpu combos. Actually they usually do have great deals on hdd's and ssd's as well. The problem is that being a brick and mortar store they aren't able to compete when it comes to brand diversity. Also being brick and mortar means that if a single store gets the same size shipment of gpu's as Newegg its going to take them longer to sell out so they aren't able to lower their price as quickly without talking a loss. As with any brick and mortar store though their cables are way overpriced.

[@donnydarko7624]

Looks like one of my comments about finding better deals on parts for a budget rendering build was deleted.

[@Invisible_Dear]

🎖️ Rathee ::- KZbin course ::-399. Contact ::-

[@سحر-ه2ج]

I thought this is a tutorial to make a pc in blender lol

[@chemistrybro_]

CPU rendering is by thread I thought not by core

[@RogueAstro85]

The rendering is, but in your viewport it primarily uses cores. Although lately Blender has been updating to make it more multithreaded and it seems like that's the route they're wanting to take

[@springnutica]

Ok didn’t need it