Will this Dual Opteron Rig Work (Advice needed)

[Boy Hits Car]

I need a dual Opteron system ASAP for my office and need to keep it under $3000.

It will be used for 3D Max 7 and Quicktime video rendering.

So far I've decided on:

2x Opteron 246 CPU - $674 total
4x 512kb Corsair LP CM72SD512 for 2Gig total - 4x $73 ~ $292 - REGISTERED
Antec 550W True550-EPS12V PSU - $105
Thunder K8W (S2885) Motherboard - $419
Enlight Full Tower 8902 - $135
3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 100 256Meg DDR3 8x-AGP - $539
CD/DVD Combo - $50
Windows XP Pro - $156

Total: $2280. That leaves around $500 for Hard Drives.

I need help on hard drives. I need a lot of storage and have little experience with RAID Configs. Could you guys suggest a RAID config with at least 400GB total storage. Do I need a RAID controller and what kind of RAID (0,1,5, etc). Any other advice on the system would be great.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Use the onboard RAID controller/ Make suree that your ram is registered ECC.

 

[Boy Hits Car]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Use the onboard RAID controller/ Make suree that your ram is registered ECC.

Just checked, it is registered. Thanks.

 

[Geomagick]

You could easily make use of the SATA RAID controller that's on board but this will only offer RAID 0,1,and 0+1.

If you were to use the onboard RAID a couple of large drives would work fine in RAID 0, double to 4 drives if using RAID 0+1.

Then select drives which offer the storage you need.

 

[Boy Hits Car]

Anybody know if the Thunder K8W (S2885) Motherboard will support the dual core AMDs for future upgrading purposes?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Boy Hits Car
Anybody know if the Thunder K8W (S2885) Motherboard will support the dual core AMDs for future upgrading purposes?

Yes it will.

 

[Geomagick]

Originally posted by: Boy Hits Car
Anybody know if the Thunder K8W (S2885) Motherboard will support the dual core AMDs for future upgrading purposes?

This page should be updated when they are

 

[Boy Hits Car]

Bump, is it good to go?