jartz posted at 7:36AM Sun, 30 June 2019 - #4355363

ThunderStone posted at 11:54AM Sat, 29 June 2019 - #4355046

Jartz , does your system a!low for additional hdd and how is your CPU cooling system. Reason I ask is because rendering can heat up both CPU and gpu,. That's enough to bring a system toa screeching halt. Not bad for a gaming system, price wise. What other features does your computer have?

Yes. I think it allows for an additional hhd. I bought a WD hard drive 1 TB, and I think I can add an another ssd. I just needed extra space, but hearing from others, ssd is faster; don't particularly care for it being 265GB, would've prefer more. I think the cooling system is okay as I've done test renders and manage to get 40 minutes in one scene. It may vary I don't know as I don't do gaming. I can upgrade to just only the hard drives, ram and the processor, it would take some trial and error because it's a slightly small area to work with. It's pretty much a simple symple system with a faster processing. That's pretty much it.

Hope it helps.

It, does, jartz, it does. Thanks for the information. I am going to look about the system after the holidays and everything calms down. It's time for a new system. I might get the system repaired if I can find a local computer repair shop. The tech guy I used to use is really a greedy mf 'er and wanted to charge me the cost of a new system just for repairing or replacing the cooling fan on the cpu. I could have gotten the cooling fan and other components less expensively online and had him put it in for less than the cost of a new system. But the mfer wanted to use me as a moneybag. And he's no kid either! Grrrr.

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