Rig is used for professional multitasked gaming graphics developement so HT or dualcore is required. Heavy use of Photoshop, Illustrator and 3DMax all at the same time. SATA drives are fine as we're ditching SCSI to save costs.
Need help on picking video card as we've been using Quadro AGP Pro cards but not sure if consumer gaming cards will hold up to the tasks of realtime OpenGL shading and texturing in a multi-windowed environment without glitching out. Previously consumer cards would cause many artifacts and sometimes not render at all and also not support some functions like hardware overlay planes. I know that these cheap $300 cards can render Doom 3 at 100 fps or whatever in high resolution but what about professional 3d applications? Card should be able to handle current games like BF2 under networked conditions without dropping to it's knees but we also don't need the absolute top of the line or SLI. $300 or so on the viddy would be our sweet spot but open to any suggestions. Is PCI-E the way to go?
Also need help picking a full ATX motherboard with Firewire built in. Mobo chipset is very important as I understand some disk I/O functions are slower on non-Intel chipsets and that's actually where it may make or break the rig for this purpose.
There's no overclocking so just a solid Antec mid-tower with a stock PSU would be more than sufficient.
Other basic requirements are:
NEC DVDRW
2GB DDR value but solid memory (2x1GB modules)
250GB Seagate SATA
We have everything else like LCD's and input devices as well as OS.
Also some mobos support installation on SATA without the use of drivers on floppy. I would really like to avoid floppies so a board that doesn't require F6 would be killer.
Thanks.
p.s. should I just stick with a Northwood/AGP8x/normal PCI/Intel chipset rig?
Need help on picking video card as we've been using Quadro AGP Pro cards but not sure if consumer gaming cards will hold up to the tasks of realtime OpenGL shading and texturing in a multi-windowed environment without glitching out. Previously consumer cards would cause many artifacts and sometimes not render at all and also not support some functions like hardware overlay planes. I know that these cheap $300 cards can render Doom 3 at 100 fps or whatever in high resolution but what about professional 3d applications? Card should be able to handle current games like BF2 under networked conditions without dropping to it's knees but we also don't need the absolute top of the line or SLI. $300 or so on the viddy would be our sweet spot but open to any suggestions. Is PCI-E the way to go?
Also need help picking a full ATX motherboard with Firewire built in. Mobo chipset is very important as I understand some disk I/O functions are slower on non-Intel chipsets and that's actually where it may make or break the rig for this purpose.
There's no overclocking so just a solid Antec mid-tower with a stock PSU would be more than sufficient.
Other basic requirements are:
NEC DVDRW
2GB DDR value but solid memory (2x1GB modules)
250GB Seagate SATA
We have everything else like LCD's and input devices as well as OS.
Also some mobos support installation on SATA without the use of drivers on floppy. I would really like to avoid floppies so a board that doesn't require F6 would be killer.
Thanks.
p.s. should I just stick with a Northwood/AGP8x/normal PCI/Intel chipset rig?
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