Another Workstation !

[Nic H]

Hi there. I am putting together a new system for my personal 3D work, mostly architectural visualization (stills mainly). It is going to be my main home workstation and will be used for rendering overnight. I have read pretty much all the posts regarding workstation configurations and I think what iv got here should be all right, but when spending a lot of money I want to get it right!

I use mainly 3Dmax, V-ray, ArchiCAD, and Photoshop.

I have a limited budget of around $5000.00 AUD including monitor (a Dell 24” I v specced at the moment) XP operating system and keyboard/ mouse plus assembly.

I have gone for the fastest single dual core processor I can afford, a midlevel graphics card (running directx9) as I don’t really feel for the work Id do I would benefit greatly from a Quadro. 2 GB of DDR2 RAM and two hard drives (a 150GB WD raptor for system, 300 GB storage)

Could some of you guys have a look-see over the components below and see what you think and where I might be able to improve the performance/price ratio? Would I be better off with an Opteron 280 over an X2 5000? Also WINXP 32 or 64? Comments? Experiences?

Thanks!

CPU

AMD - ADA5000CUBOX AMD ATHLON 64 X2 Dual-Core 5000+ (2.6GHz/2x512KB/AM2)

Or for a very similar price…….

AMD ATHLON 64 X2 Dual-Core 4800+ (2.4GHz/2x1MB/AM2)

 

MotherboardASUS - M2N32-SLI Deluxe

Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Nforce 590 SLI, 4xDDR2 800/667/533, 2x PCIe 16x, IDE, SATAII, Firewire, 8ch Audio, Dual GBLAN, 2x PCI, 10x USB2, Wifi

 

Memory - 2 G DDR2

Corsair Micro - TWIN2X2048-5400C4

CORSAIR XTREME MEMORY SPEED 2048mb kit (2x1024mb) PC5400 (675mhz) DDR2 RAM CAS4 Warranty: Lifetime

 

Video Card – 7900 GTASUS - EN7900GT-2DHT-256 Asus EN7900GT-2DHT-256 Geforce 7900GT, 256MB, PCI Express, HDTV, Dual Link DVI

 

Hard Disk 1 (system drive) – 150 G

Western Digital WD1500ADFD Raptor, 150GB, SATA 150, 16mb Cache 10,000RPM

 

Hard Disk 2 (storage drive)- 250 G

Maxtor - 6V250F0 Maxtor 6V250F0 Diamond Max 10 250GB, SATAII/300, 7200rpm, 16Mb CACHE, NCQ Warranty: 3 year

 

Optical Drive- 1 DVD

BenQ - DW1650-Black

Benq DW1650-Black INT.DVD DUAL, DVD+(16x8x16x), DVD-(16x6x16x), DOUBLE LAYER,

Optical Drive- 2 CD

LG - GCE-8527B-Black

LG GCE-8527B-Black 52X 32X 52X CD-R/RW OEM

Mouse & Keyboard

Microsoft - S82-00031 Microsoft Basic Black Optical Value 2.0 Keyboard and Mouse combo OEM pack

 

Case + PSU

Antec - Titan 550

Antec Titan 550 ATX Server Case 550W TruePower PSU, 10 drive bays 6x3.5" internal & 4 x 5.25" external, Front USB/IEEE1394 & Audio

 

Operating System

WINXP PRO OEM 32 or 64??

Monitor

Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24”

[Nic H]

no thoughgts? at all?

[AJLynn]

I think it's just that we get so many of these now, the ability to influence somebody's cpu speed halfway around the world isn't as exciting as it used to be

 

It looks like you've read these threads before and you already know what you're doing, so my advice is to just buy something. Only comment would be that the pre-release CPU is probably not a great idea if you're not 100% sure it will ship soon.

[Nic H]

True, its just another workstation. Except for the person paying! Im fairly confident with it so I might as well press pay. Thanks

[tecton3d]

looks like a good system to me

 

Or for a very similar price…….

doh ~ get the faster one then : )

 

cheers!