mzex Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 In my firm we will buy new HP workstations with two quad xeon 5310. Will be 4 Gb of ddr-2 enough for those 8 cores in the machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 What are the machines for? What are the memory-intensive apps that will be running on them? If this is for the machines you were talking about in another post for running Archicad, don't buy anything this expensive - buy Core2 Duo boxes (the E6400 is a good price point) with Geforce 7xxx video cards and 2GB RAM. OTOH, if this is a monster rendering box and you're doing a lot of that kind of thing, I'd consider going to 8GB on the 8 core box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Unfortunately, you cannot use ddr-2 memory with the woodcrest xeons. You have to use fb-dimm memory which is more $$$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mzex Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 I will use it mainly for ArchiCAD, but my boss says money is no problem. He wants to have machines that will be working for the next year or two without any problems.And since I have been learning Vray I am willing to go for 2 quad xeons. It is annoying to render on athlon xp 1800+, but I will not be too greedy so will satisfy with 4Gb of RAM, if thing will work properly with that much memory. Anyway I have cut the price of the first configuration he was offered for about 2500 euros. Thanks for advices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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