December 02, 2014, 01:20:22 pm
I want to build a rig that can handle any lumion scene easily. And everything works at the best quality and butter smooth, since I wont be upgrading anytime soon.
In that case you will need to upgrade your entire PC as your existing components will act as bottlenecks, even if you get a GTX 980. Make sure that you choose a motherboard that supports PCI Express 3.0, fast system RAM and a high-capacity power supply.
For very complex scenes, you want to aim for a minimum of 20000 points in the Lumion benchmark, and 4GB RAM at the very least. 6GB is of course even better.
Depending on your budget, you may find that you'll need to compromise, so I have pasted the specifications of a range of user-submitted scores. I would not go any lower than a GTX 760 if I were you.
LUMION BENCHMARK SCORE: 23400 points.Graphics card: 980GTX.
Motherboard: MSI X99S Gaming 7.
Memory: 16GB of Corsair 2666mhz Vengeance LPX memory
LUMION BENCHMARK SCORE: 19980 points.Graphics card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB.
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor.
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Z97 Motherboard.
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory.
LUMION BENCHMARK SCORE: 14580 points.Graphics card: EVGA Nvidia Geforce GTX 760 4GB GDDR5 FTW ACX Cooling.
- with overclock using EVGA PrecisionX 16 +115MHz GPU & +123MHz Mem. (Score of 14400 without OC).
CPU: i7-4930K CPU @ 3.40GHz on Rampage IV Black Ed. Motherboard.
Memory: 48 GB RAM (Kingston HyperXBeast in 8GB units at 24000MHz).