Hello everyone,
I'm an OSX user switching over to PCs. I've put together a spec. for a machine after days of research, it will be used primarily for 3D Maya and Photoshop work, any gaming is incidental but not the core use. My current spec. is :
Processor Two Opteron 248's
Motherboard Tyan k8we s2895
RAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 EEC
Graphics nVidia? Quadro FX1400 128MB Graphics Card
And of course PSU, Case, Hard drives etc.
That's all OK but the Motherboard seems really expensive as a proportion of the whole machine and I'm wondering if there's a lower spec. board that will still give me everything I really need? I've read the Motherboard sticky here but it only appears to cover socket 939 boards.
I'll need professional things like Ethernet, Firewire, but not too fussed about Sound of SLI which I think are more for gaming, I have a firewall in my router so do I need one on the Motherboard? Don't think I need SCSI but I'll want SATA II, don't think I'll use RAID as it's too insecure. Will potentially look at overclocking in the future and most important of all is a board that's flexible, future proof and stable.
I just don't know if that Tyan k8we is costing me lots of cash that I'm not going to utilise or if it's worth it in which case I'll just buy it. Very grateful for any opinions on this.
I'm an OSX user switching over to PCs. I've put together a spec. for a machine after days of research, it will be used primarily for 3D Maya and Photoshop work, any gaming is incidental but not the core use. My current spec. is :
Processor Two Opteron 248's
Motherboard Tyan k8we s2895
RAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 EEC
Graphics nVidia? Quadro FX1400 128MB Graphics Card
And of course PSU, Case, Hard drives etc.
That's all OK but the Motherboard seems really expensive as a proportion of the whole machine and I'm wondering if there's a lower spec. board that will still give me everything I really need? I've read the Motherboard sticky here but it only appears to cover socket 939 boards.
I'll need professional things like Ethernet, Firewire, but not too fussed about Sound of SLI which I think are more for gaming, I have a firewall in my router so do I need one on the Motherboard? Don't think I need SCSI but I'll want SATA II, don't think I'll use RAID as it's too insecure. Will potentially look at overclocking in the future and most important of all is a board that's flexible, future proof and stable.
I just don't know if that Tyan k8we is costing me lots of cash that I'm not going to utilise or if it's worth it in which case I'll just buy it. Very grateful for any opinions on this.
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