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[wangprefix]

thanks guys for the helpful tips and lyssword yeh you r right its the 2.66 that i am talking about got it mistyped thanks for the correction

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: sgrinavi

Originally posted by: wangprefix

Well, thanks for the tips all u guys.... appreciate your good nature in helping us helpless souls.... welll may be i put the question wrong... lets see... welll in animation i am using the maya software which includes 3 dx max, liquid fusion and Maya...

ok plz help me out here further :-

am buying

processor - Quad COre 2.63 (intel)
mobo - P45 diamond
DDr3 ram - Transcend 2 gb ddr3 (what do you think Ocz parts) coz Ocz is less than transcend
GPu - Ati radeon Hd 3850 or saphire HD 4650

These are well within my range.... if u have other suggestions like same price but better performance or less price same performance product then plz do help by the earliest................ thanks again u guys and lol....... love to hear as early as possible would further appreciate your trouble... peace

I do animation and graphics too...

Skip the DDR3, get 8GB of DDR2 for the same price.

Get the 3850 and soft mod it to a v7700

dig dig dig....

I like this answer....maybe get the 3870 and soft mod that one...

quad core is a must as those apps will pound a dual core....

Also look at getting multiple Harddrives and setting up a Raid 0

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
If you can get the 8800GTS 640mb and softmod it, I think it would destroy the AMD 3850 card hands down.

Nvidia has always had better workstation drivers than AMD/ATI, plus the G80 is a way more powerful GPU than the 3850.

Hey is the 8800GTS softmoddable?

How about a 8600GT?

 

[Denithor]

Originally posted by: Duvie
Hey is the 8800GTS softmoddable?

Yes. At least, the original G80 640MB model is, I don't know about the G92 version.

Originally posted by: Denithor
Or an 8800GTS 640MB and softmod it to a Quadro FX 4600.

Wang, a note about memory: DDR2 versus DDR3 - there's no difference on the C2Q architecture. Memory speed has very little impact on overall system performance. Quantity, on the other hand -- if you run out of available memory, your system will grind to a near halt. So go for more of the cheaper/lower speed memory to make sure you have enough to keep everything running smoothly.

EDIT: Think of water flowing through a pipe. You can move a lot more water through a wide pipe than through a narrow one. The more memory you have in your system, the wider your pipe gets.

 

[Martimus]

Originally posted by: lyssword
I'm sorry to break your fantasy, but a quad core with 2.63ghz (stock) doesn't exist. And that's not even specific enough. If it's 2.66ghz you mean, then there are 3 processors: Q6700, Q9450, Q9400

Or an i7 920, which is not socket compatible. Make sure you don't get that with a S775 MB, Wang.

 

[sgrinavi]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
If you can get the 8800GTS 640mb and softmod it, I think it would destroy the AMD 3850 card hands down.

Nvidia has always had better workstation drivers than AMD/ATI, plus the G80 is a way more powerful GPU than the 3850.

I dunno about all that. I have a 8800 GTS / 640 running as a FX4600 in the office. It does not smoke my SoftFire v7700 by any stretch of the imagination.

EDIT: Besides, the 8800 GTS softmod only works in 3dsMAX per Unwinder (the author of RivaTuner) where as the softfireGL mod works in everything.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: sgrinavi

Originally posted by: SickBeast
If you can get the 8800GTS 640mb and softmod it, I think it would destroy the AMD 3850 card hands down.

Nvidia has always had better workstation drivers than AMD/ATI, plus the G80 is a way more powerful GPU than the 3850.

I dunno about all that. I have a 8800 GTS / 640 running as a FX4600 in the office. It does not smoke my SoftFire v7700 by any stretch of the imagination.

EDIT: Besides, the 8800 GTS softmod only works in 3dsMAX per Unwinder (the author of RivaTuner) where as the softfireGL mod works in everything.

That surprises me seeing as the 8800GTS is technically a far superior GPU, and NV tends to make better workstation drivers.

If that's the case though, the AMD card is better hands down.

I remember drawing a commuter rail station in 3D with quite a high level of detail on an ATI 9700Pro that I modded into a FireGL. You really don't need all that much GPU power to do a small to mid sized architectural project. I found my CPU more of a limitation, along with the amount of memory I had. I would say go straight to 16gb of ram if you can; it's cheap and it will definitely help if you're rendering 4 images simultaneously on the quad core.

 

[sgrinavi]

Originally posted by: SickBeast


That surprises me seeing as the 8800GTS is technically a far superior GPU, and NV tends to make better workstation drivers.

If that's the case though, the AMD card is better hands down.

I remember drawing a commuter rail station in 3D with quite a high level of detail on an ATI 9700Pro that I modded into a FireGL. You really don't need all that much GPU power to do a small to mid sized architectural project. I found my CPU more of a limitation, along with the amount of memory I had. I would say go straight to 16gb of ram if you can; it's cheap and it will definitely help if you're rendering 4 images simultaneously on the quad core.

Just to be sure I ran Specapc for 3ds max 9 on my softmod fx4600 (8800GTS/640)- it took over 2000 seconds to complete - same test took around 600 on my Softfire V7700 (HD3870)

More benchmarks posted in the video card forum