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wich way?advice needed...CPU and Graphics

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enexis

Junior Member
hi:
i m trying to figure out wich system i should pick....and i m gettin really confused.
its single purpose its for intensive work in apps like cad and max...i m having problems to choose between amd or intel...and i can t figure out wich graphic card should i go for... at the office i m on a XW6200 workstation single P4 3.0 1Gig with a nvidia quadroFX 1300...it s awesome!...but of course im on a tight budget...so wich system is the bang for the buck?wich configurations either on cpu s and graphics should i look for?

ok...
i know intel might be a step forward in cad and 3d apps...i m not realy concerned about the cad stuff....but the 3d is my major interest! and my point is (thanku DaveSimmons) if the extra buck is really worth it...
i m now leaning over AMD...i ve been reading a lot...i think i would try a A64 3200 or 3400 (winchester) with a pumped mobo, 1 or 2 Gig ram and probably a quadro....not sure dough...as i ve been told tha the $ might not be worth it...
i WAs thinkin on goin dual...but i gave up....i don t think its worth it and i rather save now an buil a render farm in a short time....(?)

another thing on my mind is the GPU concerning renderin task....im really confused here...i check out the gelato app from nvidia but i couldn t get it clearer ...is the graphic card used in rendering? can it be? how?


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#1
.AMD ATHLON 64 3000+ / 3200+ SKT 939
.MSI K8N NEO 2 PLATINUM NFORCE3 ULTRA
.NVIDIA QUADRO FX 500
.2x512 Mb CORSAIR RAM
.MAXTOR 80Gig 7200Rpm


#2
.INTEL PENTIUM4 3.2
.ASUS P5P800 / ASUS P5GD2 DELUXE
.NVIDIA QUADRO FX 500
.2x512 Mb CORSAIR RAM
.MAXTOR 80Gig 7200Rpm


#3
.1x AMD OPTERON 142 (?) / 2x AMD ATHLON 2800+
.MSI K8T MASTER2-FAR (2x PROC.)
.NVIDIA QUADRO FX 500
.2x512 Mb CORSAIR RAM
.MAXTOR 80Gig 7200Rpm

or
MSI nVIDIA GeForce 6600

any tips?
most appreciate!
 
at work I use a dual processor Xeon system and honestly it's wasted processing power as we use solidworks which doesn't support dual processors right now as far as I know. Our IT guy even admitted that most of the machines we have do use dual processors and most of the users would never notice the differance if he took one of the processors out. I don't know if that helps your or not, what I was really trying to express is before you dump a ton into a dual processor setup be sure that the software you intend to use will support dual processors.
 
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