The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Buying a Computer for Blender

This video discusses the different options available for and tries to assess the best computer for blender. Chapters 00:00 00:25 - What budget is a low/mid budget machine? 01:23 - minimum spec for Blender? 01:58 - Blender on very slow machines 02:21 - What to do if you can’t afford a decent machine 03:33 - Main Components 03:50 - CPU central Processing Unit 06:55 - GPU Graphics Processing Unit 07:48 - Denoise 09:07 - Introducing the optimum PC 10:02 - low/Mid Budget PC Specs 10:20 - Chosen CPU - Ryzen 5 5600x 11:51 - GPU - RTX3060 12:18 - RAM 16GB 13:25 - Storage - SSD’s vs HHD 14:27 - Power supply 14:50 - Cooling 15:20 - Testing the mid/low budget PC 16:05 - laptops? 16:37 - Macs? 18:18 - Second hand Computers? The suggested mid/low budget creator PC for Blender is as follows: CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ 200R COMPACT GAMING CASE AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU ( CACHE/AM4) ASUS® PRIME B550-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s) - ARGB Ready! 16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB) 12GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060 - HDMI, DP, LHR 1TB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2200 MB/R, 1500 MB/W) Power Supply CORSAIR 650W CV SERIES™ CV-650 POWER SUPPLY Change to: CORSAIR 650W CX-M Series™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® BRONZE PCS FrostFlow 100 V3 Series High Performance CPU Cooler (AMD) 2x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof) ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD) WIRELESS 300Mbps/ PCI-E CARD Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KK3-00027] Thanks to Nvidia & PC Specialist for the advice and supplying the test computer Blender Benchmark: - Blender Benchmark is fully free and open source software - The data provided by the community is public domain and everyone is welcome to explore it - The project welcomes contributors to improve and extend its functionality. More info at Grants Learn Blender fast short course: My Website: Discord: Check out these other awesome playlists Get good at blender series: Simple game assets playlist: Learn the basics of Blender 3: Learn texture painting: Learn Sculpting playlist: My PC specs CPU - AMD RYZEN 9 5950X GPU - RTX 3090 RAM - 128GB