oo7wazzy Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 The article on different types of machines in the 3dats website where really helpful. Are these specs comparable to your midrange machine ? thanks for the help Seagate® Barracuda™ 7200.12 Series - 500GB Serial ATA II (SATA2) Plus - Serial ATA 300 (3Gbps) With 16MB Cache @ 7200RPM - NCQ LITEON® 24 Speed DVD Super All-Write SATA, 24x+R/-R, 8x +R/-R DL, 8x +RW, 6x -RW, 12x -RAM, 16x DVD, 48xCDR, 24x RW, Black Intel® Core™ i7 930 Processor - 2.80GHz Quad Core, Socket 1366, 8MB L3, 4.8GT/s QPI, 45nm, x64 Support, 3 Year Warranty GIGABYTE® X58A-UD3R: X58 & ICH10 Chipset - Socket LGA1366, QPI Interface up to 6.4GT/s - Supports:* Core i7 LGA1366 Processors Gigabyte® NVIDIA® GeForce GTX260, 896MB 448Bit GDDR3, CUDA, PCI-E 2.0, D-Sub, DVI, HDMI, DX10/OpenGL, Triple SLI, Vista Premium Gigabyte® X1 ATX Chassis - Black - Side Vented Panel - 4x 5.25" & 6x 3.5" Bays - Tool Free Design - 1x 120mm Fan - No PSU GIGABYTE® ODIN 585W 24-Pin Power Supply, 4 Molex & 5 SATA Power Connectors, Intel LGA775 Ready & Approved, Includes Power Cable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 That would work great. Make sure to put some ram in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roughwetgrass Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 That would work great. Make sure to put some ram in there. Yeah looks good, but be sure to put 8gb ddr3 or more in there...and a 64bit os of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 It's a 1366 board, so the ram should be in multiples of 3. Depending on the budget and requirements, could be 6gb, 9gb or 12gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylannewell Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 You should change the graphics card to a quadro fx if you're doing CAD/3D work. Even a cheap one will run better than an expensive GeForce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 That's not really true unless you have specialized needs. For running Max in Direct3D, you're not going to get a Quadro in the same price class as the 260 that will outperform it. Those low end Quadros are pretty weak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylannewell Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 you will on ebay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo7wazzy Posted April 14, 2010 Author Share Posted April 14, 2010 It's a 1366 board, so the ram should be in multiples of 3. Depending on the budget and requirements, could be 6gb, 9gb or 12gb. Thanks for the help.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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