PC Building Guide for 3D Animation & Rendering

At this point I've had so many people ask me about what PC parts or what laptop to buy for 3D animation and rendering that I had to make this post for everyone.

There are people that keep up a lot more with the updates and trends when it comes to building PC's for GPU rendering and video rendering work than I do. So instead of giving my 2 cents I've linked their video directly for you to watch. This video was created by Motion Designers Community and they helped me a lot when I was really into building the best PC I could and pouring money into it for 3D. So shoutout to them

These are my current specs for what I use on a day to day basis, these days I work 100% off my laptop but I used to link to my workstation and use it for a lot of the bulk rendering.

I've explained a lot of my workflows between the two how everything was setup in my free guide a lot of you have received through email.

Laptop Build (Main PC):
CPU: Intel Core i9-9880H 2.3GHz up to 4.8GHz boost
RAM: 32GB DDR4
GPU 1: GeForce RTX 2080 8GB GDDR6 Max-Q
Storage SSD: 2TB NVME SSD
Storage HDD: 1TB 7200RPM
OS Windows 10 (x64)

Workstation Render Unit:
Case: Corsair Carbide Air 540
Motherboard: Asus Prime Z370-A LGA1151
CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K 3.6GHz up to 4.9GHz boost
PSU: Corsair HX1200i 1200W
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4
GPU 1: x1 EVGA Geforce RTX 2080ti + EVGA 2080 Ti GPU 11GB Hybrid Cooling Kit
GPU 2: x1 Palit Gefore GTX 1080ti 11GB
Storage SSD: x1 250GB, x1 500GB, x1 1TB
Storage HDD: x2 1TB x1 8TB
OS Windows 10 (x64)

Also check out this video from 2019 which covers my workstation build:
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