Actually not pointless, when you know how my mind works. But your opinion is yours to ave. Besides, I'd still squeeze every bit of juice out of that system. Believe it or not, I need a high-end computer. "Just animating"? Psshht. Come on. You don't know what I'm trying to do, what I'm wanting to do. Sure, it's hobby work at the moment, but that's because this rig can't do everything I want it to. There's a film I've had in mind for ages that will take a beast of a machine to get done within a five year time span. I'm still refining my skills with what I have, but that's the best i can doi with this machine. I'm also working on my own game, and maybe one day I'll rival Bethsoft. Maybe Bethsoft will grind me into the dust and defecate on my grave. Who knows, honestly.
While I can run heavily modded Skyrim on Ultra with this machine, that's only stable for a good 15 minutes. Then it runs out of memory and crashes. It does the same on vanilla low, though I can get about two hours out of that. face it, this computer is crap and while it can do a few neat tricks, that's about it. I need a system I can run 3+ monitors on, gaming in HD 3D on one with 80+FPS, while working smoothly in Photoshop and zBrush on another, and possibly studying on another. I'm an efficient multitasker and this system here is years behind me. It eats crap daily, I mean the bloody thing has started crashing out on 3000x5000pixel canvases at 300PPI, how pathetic is that? My poor Bamboo is starved, and I don't want to torture my Cintiq 22HD when I finally order it. Even Oblivion and Minecraft are running into Out Of Memory crashes, this thing just can't keep up. It's old and beaten.
I'm getting a list of prices and specs NOW, because when new market parts come out later, now I still have a baseline established. It might not make sense to you, but it makes sense to me. Maybe it's because I'm an Aspy, maybe I'm just odd. It's just how I work. If you think I'm wasting my time, then that's your opinion. In my opinion what I'm doing does have a logical point. In my opinion this is necessary. I like my shiny toys, but they must also be functional. No point in a golden paperweight. If you could see the kind of abuse I put this thing through, running servers, building a game, working on 3D models, textures, the whole nine, you'd see why I need such a high spec 'toy'. I may only be sixteen but I'm not some moron. For the most part I do know what I'm doing, I'm just looking for second opinions on some parts and I feel like I missed a few things on the list. That's all. I don't want to deal with lag, freezeups, hangs, or other BS. I'm more software oriented but htat doesn't make me a total idiot when it comes to hardware. I'm just attempting to establish a baseline.