my potential new system, please help.

[DAN212222]

hi guys hope every one is fine and dandy

 

im looking at getting a new system, and have no idea what im looking for,

 

ive found this system what do you think....

 

Processor

 

Intel® Xeon® 5060 Dual-Core Processor (3.20 GHz, 2x2 MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz FSB)

 

Memory

 

2048MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM

 

 

Harddrive

 

160 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7,200rpm)

 

Monitor

 

Dell 1907FP 19" UltraSharpT Flat Panel Monitor

 

Graphic Card

 

256 MB ATI® FireGLT V7200

 

 

for 1349 quid.... british pound....

 

 

Cheers guys for any pointers you can offer.

dan

[tecton3d]

that would be a good system but it would be worth waiting for Intel's new Xeon processor called the Woodcrest (51xx designation). They have been beating AMD's dualcore Opterons in nearly all benchmarks and would make great 3d workstation CPU's. If you don't want to wait for Woodcrest, then go with a Dual dualcore Opteron 2xx series system. It would be much faster than your spec'd xeon machine.

 

Nvidia is generally preferred to ATI ... esp the NvQuadros for 3d studio

 

2gb of ram isn't a whole lot but that can be upgraded easily as you need.

 

cheers

[AJLynn]

OTOH, if you work for a company that buys Dells exclusively that's a good deal for you, the CPU isn't as fast as what you can get soon but it's not that far behind and the v7200 is pretty kickass. You'll want the 20" monitor, it's got a lot more pixels. I don't really know the British market, so I'm assuming you've already shopped around and the price is competitive.