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    ^ C4D renders exclusively on the CPU, so it's nice to get started with 6 or 8 cores. Depending on how heavy your work will be, of course. Intel has a feature called Hyper Threading, which C4D and other apps make great use of, it's available only for i7 and Xeon machines. If you're looking for an exclusive heavy workstation look for a dual quad-core/six-core xeon one. If it just needs to be a fast private machine that also runs games get an i7. Same goes for RAM, depending on your workload. But RAM is cheap these days, I'd go for 32GB. Important is that you have four identical blocks so you have quad channel which speeds up the system by a lot. Get a dedicated GPU for better system performance. Best an nvidia to have some cuda cores in case you need some. And an SSD of course.

    Example Build:
    - i7 6800k (ca. 480€)
    - X99 (Socket 2011-3) Mainboard (ca. 250€)
    - Nvida GTX1060 (ca. 300€)
    - 32GB DDR4 ram (4x 8GB) @3200MHZ (ca. 200€)
    - 500GB M.2 SSD (M2. is a slot on the mainboard, no cables etc. and faster - 150€)
    - Case (€50 - open end, I recommend phanteks entoo and NZXT)
    - Power Supply of 500W+ (buy a good one... 80€+)

    Nice to Have is an AIO water cooling for your CPU, like the Corsair H100i, keeps the whole system cool and almost dead silent. And you should add good fans to the case, noctua makes great ones. And you need a windows key of course :)

    I don't know of any big issues when switching, not in Adobe or in C4D. .DS_Store files will be there probably, that is where mac finder stores the thumbnails etc. And you don't have color tags on folders anymore if you used them.

    Hit me up if you need a detailed part list. Putting that stuff together is no big deal, have a look at some youtube guys that explain that. But it's like LEGO..

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    • Octane uses GPU rendering, so you need a beefy card. Two is the preferred setup because using one to render causes the system to grind...face_melter
    • ...whereas having two means you can render with one and use other programs with the other, such as Ps.face_melter
    • The world seems to gradually moving towards GPU rendering, so it is best to future-proof yourself and get a pair of decent cards.face_melter
    • that is the nice thing on PC, just slap 'em in when you need em. I think where_am_i needs to specify a bit what exaclty he does to get a proper buildmekk
    • Yup. Best thing is to set a budget, see what you can get for the cash. Took me a while to settle on a preferred build. Skimped the case but spunked on the CPU.face_melter
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