Getting a new machine at work...

[jinsley]

IT Guy is putting together some specs for a new machine at work...

 

It will mainly be for photoshop and modeling my scenes while my dual core box is rendering...

 

 

• i7 - 930 quad cores 2.8

  
  

• 6GB Corsair

  
  

• SSD (Intel or OCZ)

  
  

• video (ATI 5750 or nVidia GT240 passive cooling)

  
  

• Win7 Pro, Office 2007 Basic

  
  

What do you guys think?

[ihabkal]

Hi James,

Get the 3.06 GHz - i7-950, it costs a tiny bit more and is newer and faster. Also if you can more ram. Ram seems to get filled no matter how much you have.

[Sketchrender]

Funny, I know guys like to build their own machines and all.

But under an office situation and all the computers being probably covered by one policy, when i worked for a big company we went with Dell for reliabilty and warranty.

if you build your own ......your on your own..

 

Might be worth a thought .

 

Phil

[jinsley]

We don't build our own, we have a local company who takes care of us a few blocks away.

 

Thx for the replies guys, I don't know what will happen in the end. In the past, the machines the company buys have specs like they are intended for drafting... then to upgrade them to a "3D" machine the company buys a better video card...

 

It isn't until recently that they have been taking a closer look at the needs of the graphics department...

 

here is what I have currently asked for:

 

i7 - 950

500 GB caviar black hard drives ( I had to opt out of SSD in order to get them to think about the better vid card and processor)

12gb of ram

GTX 460

[F J]

IT Guy is putting together some specs for a new machine at work...

 

It will mainly be for photoshop and modeling my scenes while my dual core box is rendering...

hmm, shouldnt it be the other way around?

have the dual-core for photoshop+modeling n let the quad-core do the rendering?

[jinsley]

Sorry, I meant dual processor...

[F J]

hehe..

 

i agree with the i7-950.. its a lil beast that one n probably the current best bang4buck..

 

as for the SSD:

nooooooooooooo! there's no way i'd leave the SSD out for a GPU! (unless of course u'r doing some serious stuff with GPU rendering)..

 

anyways, what i wanted to say was that the Intel SSD G3 (3rd Generation) is said to come out still this year (if not January)..

with a new manufacture process (G2 34nm -> G3 25nm) which could mean higher capacity for the same price..

also closing the G2's gap between read/write, plus with increased overall performance (IOPS)..

n look at how much they've managed to increase the drive's lifespan (G2 7.5TB-15TB -> G3 30TB-60TB) wow!

 

also many ppl just dont care for waiting cuz the OCZ Vertex 2 120GB just recently got a considerable price knock, besides performing amazingly, so they'r going for those like hot-cakes..

Edited December 3, 2010 by F J

[jinsley]

I totally agree with you and I will really miss the SSD... but unfortunately, the machine specs are being driven more by price than performance or quality. I do some rendering with the GPU and I work with some really heavy scenes infront of clients, partners, etc... so having a better Vid card makes a difference to me.

 

I'm going to check out that OCZ ssd... I don't know what will happen, I already got warned once that my specs are $100 over the initial machine specs...

[greatcurve]

I just built a machine with the 950, an ATI firegl V8650, 6g mushkin blackline ddr3, and an intel sad. Photoshop runs just fine on 6 gigs and opens in 2 secs with the ssd. If I were in your situation, I would drop back to 6 gigs from 12 and try to work that ssd back in. My two cents.