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Money no Issue (keep it under 3grand)

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MatthewMaes

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ok, if money isnt an issue, build me a fast adn stable computer that will run like 10 minute animations and greater. i was thinking of a 2.8 or so with the 533 mhz FSB. with a quadro4 video card. give me suggestions as this is for a coworker, and he doesnt know crap about computers. like what mobo i want, and ram and such.
 
asus a7n8x nforce 2
athlon 2800
512 muchkin 2:2:2 pc2700
80 gig WD 8 meg cache
antec case with true 400 watt psu
floppy
lite on CDRW
ati radeon 9700 pro
taisol heatsink from newegg.com (the 20 dollar one)
a few 80 mm case fans
 
I'm not completly sure the Radeon 9700 pro will beat the Quadro series..

If you want one hella videocard, for animation stuff, I remember aces hardware or digit life had some good 3dmax comparisons. What type of programs will you be using?
 
im not sure about the programs, but he just told me that he will be running some stuff that does major animation stuff, and he might be using it to create music and have like a 128 channel mixing board on the computer.
 
If money is no issue build an SMP rig. I can't remember if there are Quad Processor Xeon board, but if there are, do that.

If not, dual Athlon MP's usually preform better than dual Xeons. I haven't been keeping up on the whole SMP world, this may be incorrect with the aid of HyperThreading...
 
If you are going with a single CPU system, then probably a 3.06GHz P4 with Hyperthreading is going to be your best bet.

However, dual CPUs seem like the way to go. Dual Athlon MPs are a lot more cost effective and perform well. The 760MPX is the chipset of choice.
 
1GB-2GB RAM, definitely. 1 gig minimum. Hard drive space, should be 120 gigs at least, because 10 minute animation with AA/tiff format/Motion blur/ everything on will go from tiny to humungous quickly
 
Find a RAID5 IDE controller, and use 3 200GB hard drives in that configuration. That'll give plenty of space, with redundancy. Or use RAID 0 + 1, but that'll need 4 drives.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Find a RAID5 IDE controller, and use 3 200GB hard drives in that configuration. That'll give plenty of space, with redundancy. Or use RAID 0 + 1, but that'll need 4 drives.
Click to expand...

mmmmm.....

yeah, what he said 😀

RAID 5, IMO, is much more effecient (although, I've never had the pleasure of using it..) than RAID 0+1...*drool*
 
Money no issue?

Dual Xeon 3.06Ghz, they are coming out this month; or are supposed to be
Intel 7505 based motherboard
4GB PC2700 DDR SDRAM
Sony IDE DVD -/+R/RW
SCSI RAID Card
15k SCSI 36GB HDD
15k SCSI 73GB HDD
15k SCSI 73GB HDD
200GB Firewire HDD(for backing up)
Nvidia Quadro4 980GL or 3DLabs VP 970, they both have similar preformence, ones better at certain tasks, the other better at others
M-Audio Delta Sound Card, pick one
Dual 22" CRT Monitors


Or you could do RAID 5 with 5 250GB IDE drives for a TB of storage. But I dont really think you would need that much. So why not RAID 5 with 3 73GB SCSI drives, thats if money isnt an issue. 200GB is plenty of space.


Overkill? Maybe but you said money is not an issue.
 
Well, if money is no issue, I would jump for the 3.06GHz chip. I think the HyperThreading would do wonders for applications that use parallel threads. A lot of the high-end graphic studios multithread pretty well and it would benefit you greatly 🙂

Eric
 
hah, that's what I get for hitting the reply button and then wandering away for a few minutes.... start sounding like an echo.. *chuckles*

Eric
 
Found a link for an IDE RAID 5 controller; it needs a 64-bit PCI slot. A server board would be more likely to have that. I've used a board from Supermicro already - it didn't offer much in the way of overclocking, but it was stable, and a decent performer. They only work with Intel stuff; they've got single and dual Xeon boards; there are some that support quad procs too, but those are for Slot 2 procs. That should be speedy enough.🙂
 
Intel P4 2.8Ghz(533Mhz) $375
MSI GNB Max (MS-6565) Motherboard or the AOpen AX4R board $225
2GB DDR SDRAM $750
Western Digital SE 40GB HDD $50
Western Digital SE 100GB HDD $100
Western Digital SE 100GB HDD $100
Western Digital 200GB Firewire or USB2 HDD $300
3DLabs Wildcat VP 970 or Nvidia Quadro4 980XGL $1000
Sound Card $100

The 40GB HDD would be the main drive the 2 100GB drives would be in a RAID 0 config, both motherboard mentioned come with built in USB2, LAN, and RAID. The firewire drive would be optional, for backing up. It comes to $3000, but would still need WinXP Pro, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and a monitor.
 
Are you going to RUN animations, or RENDER animations? A 486 can run animations 🙂 But if rendering... how about a dual Athlons MP for that? Along with 2 GB RAM.
 
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