Need everyone's feed back on proposed parts I'm buying.
- This will be a machine for work only in 3dsMax & Video Editing. In 3dsmax it will mainly be small animations or small projects. Do not anticipate large architectural designs.
- Budget is around $2k, prefer to stay under.
- All parts will be bought in US. Prefer Intel Quads and WD HD (only preference I'm sure about
).
- No overclocking, want it as stable as possible.
- Want to start building in the next week or so.
- Read other threads about having render farms and how the ATI 3870 would be a decent video card for 3dsMax.
Main question is can I use a dual quad systems as both a 3dsMax modeler and as a render farm? I saw in a lot of threads people having separate boxes as render farms, but don't know if I could afford to have two separate machines.
Another thing is the Ram, Motherboard and Powersupply good enough for this build and are there ways to save some cash? Should I get Win XP 64? or Vista 64? Really appreciate the help!
So far (all prices from NewEgg.com):
499.99 - ASUS Z7S WS SSI CEB Server Motherboard
299.98 - 2x A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM Dual Channel Kit Server Memory (8Gigs total)
59.98 - 2x Pioneer 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model DVR-115DBK
109.99 - Antec Performance One P180 Silver Computer Case
149.99 - PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad (Black) 750W Power Supply
159.99 - SAPPHIRE Toxic Radeon HD 3870 100225TXSR Video Card
549.98 - 2x Intel Xeon E5410 2.33GHz LGA 771 80W Processor
133.98 - 2x Western Digital Caviar SE 320GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
$1933 Total.
- This will be a machine for work only in 3dsMax & Video Editing. In 3dsmax it will mainly be small animations or small projects. Do not anticipate large architectural designs.
- Budget is around $2k, prefer to stay under.
- All parts will be bought in US. Prefer Intel Quads and WD HD (only preference I'm sure about
).- No overclocking, want it as stable as possible.
- Want to start building in the next week or so.
- Read other threads about having render farms and how the ATI 3870 would be a decent video card for 3dsMax.
Main question is can I use a dual quad systems as both a 3dsMax modeler and as a render farm? I saw in a lot of threads people having separate boxes as render farms, but don't know if I could afford to have two separate machines.
Another thing is the Ram, Motherboard and Powersupply good enough for this build and are there ways to save some cash? Should I get Win XP 64? or Vista 64? Really appreciate the help!
So far (all prices from NewEgg.com):
499.99 - ASUS Z7S WS SSI CEB Server Motherboard
299.98 - 2x A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM Dual Channel Kit Server Memory (8Gigs total)
59.98 - 2x Pioneer 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model DVR-115DBK
109.99 - Antec Performance One P180 Silver Computer Case
149.99 - PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad (Black) 750W Power Supply
159.99 - SAPPHIRE Toxic Radeon HD 3870 100225TXSR Video Card
549.98 - 2x Intel Xeon E5410 2.33GHz LGA 771 80W Processor
133.98 - 2x Western Digital Caviar SE 320GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
$1933 Total.
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