Recent content by mleoanrd77

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    Buiding a Dual Xeon 3D Studio Workstation

    Very good suggestions! I knew little about memory speeds or FSB?s. I like Duvie?s suggestion of the Asus NCCH-DL, looks like I have the option of upgrading my AGP card to PCI Express in the future! I wonder about the memory I have in my current system. I paid quit a bit for the 1GB...
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    Optimal but economical business pc

    Try some of the guides put together by AnandTech. http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2316">AnandTech: Buyer's Guide - Entry Level</a>
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    Buiding a Dual Xeon 3D Studio Workstation

    I?m planning to build a new computer for the 3D rendering and animation I do with 3D Studio Max 6 (soon to upgrade to ver.7). I?m still use the default scan line renderer and avoid raytraced materials & lighting to keep my render time down. With my new workstation I would like to begin using...
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    IDE or SATA RAID upgrade?

    Thanks Gaidin for the link to the guide to RAID, it answered a lot of questions. I also looked into the specs for the Western Digital 74GB Raptor drive and I'm very impressed with the 4.5ms seek and 150MB/s transfer rate. Is it possible to have 2 of these Raptor drives in a RAID 0...
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    IDE or SATA RAID upgrade?

    I'd like to get some more speed out of my computer and I'm thinking that upgrading to RAID might give me this speed on my Graphic Design workstation. My question is, what is the best way (and cost eeffectivly) to make this upgrade given the IDE HD's I currently have? Do I need to upgrade my...