Unreal Engine 4 from Epic Games Inc is one of the most powerful and graphically rich creation engines around today. Powering huge titles such as Epic Games Fortnite, Lionhead Studios Fable Legends, CCP Games EVE: Valkyrie as well as enabling architects to use this engine to visualise their designs in a digital space. It is no wonder Unreal Engine 4 is getting a lot of developers attention.

Having exceptional graphical capabilities combined with an intuitive user interface and fantastic capabilities for creating Virtual Reality projects compati...

It is one thing being able to build a powerful workstation that gives users all the performance you could possibly need. We do this at Workstation Specialists every day, but we don’t stop there. We know how irritating a noisy system can be and our customers shouldn’t have to put up with that. To make a quiet system seems like a simple concept but it is actually more complicated than you may think. With high performance comes high energy requirements and where there is energy there is heat. Trying to displace heat away from key components withou...

Maxon Cinema4D is one of the worlds most popular 3D design software applications available, empowering designers and giving them the creative freedom to turn their visions into a reality. The flexible, user friendly, yet powerful nature of Cinema4D has attracted all sorts of users including Architectural Designers, Visual Effects Professionals, Broadcasters or Games Developers. However, without the right computing hardware foundations users will not be able to get the most from Cinema4D and will find that they are working either inefficiently o...

Agisoft PhotoScan has many stages from 'Build Dense Cloud' to 'Build Textures', all of which require slightly different computer hardware to optimise the task. With that in mind it can be difficult to know what the optimum computer workstation configuration is.

Agisoft have stated their hardware requirements on their website and although this will get you going, they are aimed at the more entry level users and will not offer a higher performing and optimised experience. When running computing operations that may take several days or weeks to co...

Recommended Computer Workstation for Redshift

So you are interested in finding the Holy Grail that is a workstation solution with the capabilities of producing stunning photorealistic GPU renders that don’t take an age to process. Don’t worry you are not alone and in this article I will be running you through all the hardware required to achieve this within Redshift.

To perform GPU rendering effectively you of course are going to need plenty GPU power but we aren’t going to start there. To achieve this you need a well-rounded, optimised solution...

We are now firmly in the age of greater computing intelligence, revolutionising industries and making things possible previously only imagined in Science Fiction. Automotive industries developing driverless cars, defence departments producing more complex drone technology, medical industries making breakthroughs in personalised care and tech giants developing Personal Assistants helping us with our daily lives. We truly are seeing an impressive and exciting time with new revolutionary products and services hitting the market all the time and it...

With more and more hardware options becoming available these days it can be a daunting task sieving through reviews and benchmarks to know exactly what you should be investing your hard earned money on to get the most out of your software. This is where our Recommended Computer Workstation series of posts are designed to break this down for you. In this post we are focusing on Autodesk’s very popular Architectural application Revit.

When deciding which Workstation is right for you the first factors to consider are how intensive are the models y...

Professionals who render images whether they work within the VFX Industry, 3D CAD Design or Architectural Design are all well aware of the frustrations and costs lengthy render times can cause. Solving this issue with a dedicated render farm often is viewed as a daunting, highly technical and complex task.

This doesn’t need to be the case, read on to find out seven reasons dedicated Rendering Solutions such as those sold here at Workstation Specialists can slash rendering times and give companies the ability to complete more projects quicker, a...

Autodesk’s highly advanced 3DS Max visualization design software complexity offers a conundrum when choosing the best workstation configuration for this software. With its demanding 3D modelling functionality and need to output renders means the user requires both a highly fast GHz performance and many cores. Also with all the novel technologies coming up the ranks each day, it is tough to choose the perfect combination of components, such as: what capacity of ram do I need? Pro vs Consumer graphics cards? What type and how much storage will be...

When it comes to 3D design, only a few are unaware of Dassault Systemes® renowned SOLIDWORKS application. It enables users great functionality to create 3-D or even 2-D designs, permits efficiency driven collaboration and even lets you run a simulations on your designs based on practical conditions before you start to engineer your physical parts. It is no surprise then, that due to the cutting edge features of SOLIDWORKS, the application is one of the world’s most popular among engineers.

SOLIDWORKS is a fantastic 3D design software package ho...