Building a professional 3D system on a budget is not an easy task. Professional 3D systems need fast CPUs, a good amount of memory, and a powerful video card to perform ideally. They also need stable components and a large monitor able to handle all the 3D tasks you throw at it. We can afford to be a bit more flexible when it comes to the price of our value professional 3D system but obviously we cant be overly generous when picking out components. The key here: mixing and matching reasonably priced pieces of hardware to create a system that can perform in 3D Studio Max, Maya, Autocad, ProENGINEER, SPEC and other professional 3D applications.