Specs for a Graphics Workstation?

[PieDerro]

Can someone please give me specs for a solid PC-based graphics workstation to do imaging with Adobe and Corel products. The particular parts I need to know are:

CPU type and speed
Memory (amount)
Motherboard
Graphics Card
Hard Disk

Cheers!

 

[coolred]

Kinda depends on your budget.

 

[addragyn]

PS7Bench scores from the Ars ps7bench anyone? thread. Props to Mr. Miagi for compiling the list.


2x 2000 (246) Opteron (Tiger K8W) 565
2x 2000 G5 OSX 10.2.7 555 (energy settings highest perf)
2X 2000 G5 OSX Panther 554
2x 2000 G5 (BEIGE) 545
2x 1600 (242) Opteron (MSI/K8T M2)531
2x 2000 G5 OSX 10.2.7 525
2x 2000 G5 OSX 10.2.7 497 (energy settings auto bus slewing)
2x 3060 Xeon (no L3) 490 HT
2x 3060 Xeon (OC'd 2400) 488
2x 2930 Xeon (OC'd 2400) 471
3200 P4 (800MHz) 427
3200 P4 EE (2MB L3) 424
2200 Athlon 64 FX-51 416
3000 P4 (800MHz) 405
3200 P4 Laptop 800 mhz fsb 404 HT
2400 Athlon-FX 51 OC'd to 2.4 395
3200+ Athon64 HQ/DDR400 512x2 387
3495 P4 (OC'd 3.06) 386
3060 P4 XP Pro (533 FSB) 358 HT
2x 2200 Xeon PC 800 RDRAM CPQ Evo 357 HT
3200+ Athlon64 DDR 400 356
3000+ Athlon64 DDR 400 349
2x 1500 G4 (OC'd 1420) 348
2x 1333 G4 DDR OS9.2 (oc'd 1.25) 346
1800 G5 OSX 10.2.7w/G5plugin 344 (energy settings highest perf)
2x 1420 G4 OSX 10.2.4 338
2x 2400+Athlon MP 338
2x 1250 G4 OS 9.2.2j 337
2400+ XP-mobile (OC'd @2.3GHz) 337
3200+Athlon XP 332
1800 Opteron(dual-chnlDDR 333) 332
2x 1333 G4 DDR OSX10.2.2(oc 1.25) 326
1600 G5 OSX 10.2.7 321(energy settings highest perf)
1800 OPteron(singl-chnlDDR333) 320
3000+Athlon XP 318
2x 1250 G4 OSX 10.2.5 318
2x 1250 G4 DDR OSX 10.2.1 316
1x 2500+ barton OC'd 760mpx mobo 313
2x 1800 Athlon MP 312
2800+Athlon XP Barton 298
2x 2000 P4 Xeon 286
2x 1200 G4Powerlogix(867MHzG4/QS) 285 upgraded
2x 1533 Athlon MP 285
2x 1533 Athlon MP 283
2600 AMD 333FSB 1gb PC2700 281
2530 P4 mobile (OC'd 1400) 282
2700 P4B (OC 2400, 600 MHz FSB)280
2x 1466 Athlon XP 279
1600 G5 OSX 10.2.7w/G5 Plugin 276 *MacNNscores (energy settings on auto)
2666 P4 (DDR 333) 269
2x 1000 G4 DDR 10.2 267
2400+Athlon XP 262
2x 1000 G4 OS9 260
2x 1000 G4 OSX 10.1.5 254
2400+Athlon 252
2400 P4B (800MHz) 251
2400b (sis 648 DDR400) 251
1600 Centrino IBM T40 250
2400 P4 (533MHz bus) 249
2400 P4 B 241
1330 17" PowerBook OSX 10.2.8 240
1250 15" Powerbook OSX 10.3.3 240
2340 P4 (overclock) 239
1600 Centrino Dell D800 236
2400 P4 234
2x 867 G4 OS9 1.5GB RAM 228
1800+Athlon XP (1533 MHz) 226
350 G4 Giga Designs G4 1.4GHz 222
1577 oc'd Athlon XP (Lestat) 221
2x 1000 G4 OSX 10.2.2 (upgraded) 218 ?!(dual 533 logic board)
1548 Athlon XP 214
1670 Athlon XP (2000+) 213
1667 Athlon XP 211
1400 Athlon XP 1600+ xp pro 200
1x 1533 Athlon MP 197
1300 Centrino Sony VAIO Z1A 196
1000 G4 17" Powrbk OSX 10.2.6 196
2000 P4 Xeon 194
1400 Athlon XP 1600+'98SE 191
1000 G4 OSX TiPbk 10.2.2 185
2x 533 G4 OSX 10.1.5 175
2x 533 G4 OS 9.2.2 174
1800 P4 173
1200 AthlonMP 168
1508 Celeron (overclock) 167
1400 PIII Tualatin 160 **?
2x 550 G4 OSX 10.2.3 (OC Cube) 160 **?
2x 500 G4 OSX 152
2x 450 G4 OS9 151
1333 Athlon TBird 147
2x 450 G4 OSX 10.1.5 143
800 G4 Pbook OSX 1MB L3 135
733 G4 (miro7) 134
667 G4 PBk OS9 noL3 127
667 G4 PBk OSX 10.2.3 no L3 125
466 G4 OS9 123
667 G4 OSX TiPBk 10.1.5 noL3 121
866 PIII 114
466 G4 OSX 133 MHz bus 112
550 G4 Powrbk OS9* 104
500 G4 Pbook (OC'd 400) 103
1x 450 G4 OSX 100 MHz bus 101
1000 Athlon TBird (PS6.01) 100
874 Celeron (OC'd 700) 98-
550 G4 Powrbk OSX* 95
933 Transmeta Crusoe Sony 78
700 G3 iBook 74
600 G3 iBook OS 9.2.2j 70
233 PII 30

 

[biostud]

Graphic card: Matrox Parhelia
review

CONCLUSION

So, there you have it. My main motivation for doing this article was to show you a side of this product that may not have hit home with some of the earlier reviews. I never went out and bought this card thinking I would end up doing a review, but I felt compelled to do it after seeing all the cool things this card is capable of doing.

First of all, let's talk about the positives:

* Best 2D image quality.
* Unparalleled multi-head implementation.
* High quality antialiasing technology.
* Outstanding DVD playback.
* Surround Gaming technology transforms gaming experience.
* Performance, though not the fastest, is extremely good.
* Driver quality is outstanding.
* Best driver user interface to date.
* Excellent commitment by Matrox engineers to fix driver issues and garner Surround Gaming support.
* TV-out is excellent.
* I have never seen a better support operation than that of Matrox. I have personally filed bug reports on their website and every one of them was answered by a support representative.

 

[mryellow2]

I think you need to give us a price range to work with. Generally I think you'd be best off getting a Dell. I'm assuming that by Adobe/Corel you mean the usual suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, Pagemaker, Indesign etc. For reference I'm using a 1 year old Dell with a 1.7ghz Xeon cpu, 1.5gigs of ram, a 40gig hdd and an ATI firegl x1. All fairly old technology but it still holds up fairly well with all of the different applications (which include all the adobe products). The most expensive item in my setup is the new 23inch widescreen sony lcd ($2K+).


I'd like to give you prices but I didn't order any of the pieces. This is my work pc just fyi.

 

[PieDerro]

Thanks for the CPU specs!

Budget is around $US1900