Recommend workstation mobo

[rip]

I'm building a system for an Autocad 'Revit' customer. My research so far indicates processor and ram as priorities. I'm looking at AMD 6400 w/ 4 gigs ram and an ATI FireGL vid card w/ WinXP Pro 64bit.
So, could you recommend a midrange (not highest or lowest $) mobo that excels in stability and reliability. Thanks in advance,
Dana

 

[Modelworks]

If it were me I would build it with a quad core Intel, like Q6600.

The more cores when working with 3d , the better.

4 or 8GB of ram and one of the Abit or Gigabyte P35 based boards would be fine.
Most work fits well in 4GB.

Video card Nvidia Quadro or ATI FireGL.


I used to recommend using gaming cards, but stopped because I ran into a situation where Autodesk was refusing suppport because I didn't use a quadro card on the machine in question. They were fine with it in years past, but apparrently not anymore.

Autodesk is splitting 3dsmax into two different applications soon and doing away with autodesk viz and trying to integrate the architectural version of 3dsmax more with revit.
With how 3dsmax already performs on mulitple cores, the above specs should be great for a couple years at least.