I'm planning to build a PC mainly for Blender and want it to perform reasonably well for modeling, viewport work, and rendering. My budget is around €900, and I live in Italy. I already own all peripherals and will choose the case myself, so I only need advice on the internal components. I don't have any brand or hardware preferences. Which parts would give me the best Blender performance for this budget, and are there any compatibility or upgrade considerations I should keep in mind?
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A decent Blender build is possible, but €900 may be tight depending on current Italian prices. If you can stretch closer to €1,200, you’ll have more room for a stronger graphics card and better overall balance. A Ryzen 5 5600 is still a reasonable budget CPU, and its boxed cooler and thermal paste are included, so you can save money there. Since you’re choosing the case separately, focus the budget on the CPU, GPU, 32GB of RAM, an NVMe SSD, and a reliable power supply.
For Blender, especially if you plan to use the Cycles render engine, an Nvidia graphics card is usually the safer choice. Nvidia’s CUDA and hardware ray-tracing support can provide considerably better rendering performance than similarly priced AMD cards. If prices allow, prioritize an RTX card over a comparable Radeon model, but don’t neglect system memory or storage just to get one.
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