Ilhares
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That's true, and for VNs what he's got already would be fine, the box has 16GB of ram squeezed in it somehow, which was the biggest surprise to me. Not too often to find old DDR3 machines with 16+, especially the common fodder workstations. My former 'ancient' machine was an i7-970 with 6 slots, so we got 24 in there, and it's now paired up with a 2080, which seems to tackle everything we've thrown at it just fine.Yeah, it's relatively easy to make a rig on the cheap if you look into your options. I don't have an elitist setup by any means myself. The PC I use for my day to day is an old HP 3500 at its core. I just upgraded the CPU and GPU and called it good. It all depend on what you need it to do really.
But.. I'm a geeky bastard and on the rare occasions I have money, I want the absolute best I can wrangle, which is why I passed on the 3070Ti and 3080 to friends of mine and knuckled down for a 3090 FE.
If I had any artistic talent whatsoever I'd probably look into crafting a VN of my own at this point, I've certainly got enough rendering power to let it run while I'm not actively using the machine, but when I look at what folks have created for their models and environments, I have to acknowledge that I just don't have that gift. I envy every one of these mad bastards that churns out such beautiful work, it seems like they get to make a minor living doing something they really love.