Even a used 1080 would be a huge upgrade. Unfortunately right now I'm stuck with a laptop that overheats and produces the noise equivalent of a jet engine as I hit the damn render button.
Edit: The cheapest option for complete system right now are either prebuilt systems or zou get an rzen with built in vega gpu.
1080 could be loud and im not sure
woops i wanted to answer the other question first and then you quote got mixed in as i wanted to start with that...
I find them all too expensive right now as in overpriced and not worth it even if one had the money.
You have started a business endaevor of some sorts. You should always have in mind what you invest and what you get out of it.
And right now is a bad time to start this without having the hardware.
But you got so far then i would say keep watch that your laptop fan is not full of dust. I mean that i had one overheat on me in the worst of times due to the fan being never cleaned. Same happened with an gpu i had too.. didnt flinch or gave any warning until it jus broke one gaming night.
Since then im much better prepared reagrding those things. But it also shows that even as pro u can do wrong or oversee things.
Back to topic .. saving for an rtx card would be great as those have a got a great speed advantage vs old cuda core rendering due to the use of the rt cores.
And i do have an old gtx 960 with 4gb and an rtx 2070 so i know what im talking about.
The 1080 would be twice as fast as the 960 i think and it has double the ram. But the rtx still easily wipes the floor with the 1080.
I paid 440 Euros or so 2 years ago for that card.. If things were normal that card is worh maybe 300 eur at best normally more like 200 but times have changed and hardware isnt losing its worth as fast as a decade ago.
Edit: Its actually at times more worth than i paid for .. which is completly bonkers but that are the times we live in. I could sell my 960 for 200 = 250 bucks but then i had the problem of waht i am going to do when my good card breaks.. so i keep it.. i like having old spare cards even if i loose money.
But then You also need ram cpu mainboard and so forth and all in all you would invest way to much for it being used hardware if you were going for an 1080 gpu pc and around 1500 to 2000 for an 3060 pc if you can even buy the parts. If youre lucky you would get some prebuilt that are super fast sold out.
you would also need a monitor.. thats another 200 -300 bucks.
And patreon money wont come in buckets at the beginning if at all.
It could be a good idea to look out for used pcs in your home city .. depending on where you live... maybe someone is selling without knowing how prices are worldwide. Or police auctions where they sell pc from criminals or public offices or so...
just an idea..
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