Opinions from members about these AMD and ATI parts.

[Cyberstyle]

I'm looking at updating my home PC and buying a new one on a budget.

Can anyone comment or give me an opinion on what the following are like.?

 

AMD Phenom™ II X6 1090T Processor (3.2GHz,9MB,6C)

1GB ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Graphics

 

 

In the past I've always used Intel and Nvidia gear but to save on costs and also what is configurable through Dell, I'm stuck with the above AMD and ATI.

 

I have no idea how either perform with 3DS Max. I'm not looking for any hardcore machine for home as I have full access to my system at work but want something that will cope reasonably well.

 

Thanks.

[AJLynn]

Those are powerful parts. The 1090T renders faster than comparably prices i7's (caveat: this will no longer be true after Intel gets their stuff together and fixes the bug on the Sandy Bridge motherboards, which will take a couple of weeks, but until they do I can't recommend a Sandy Bridge system). The 5870 is not as fast as nVidia's newest high-end GPUs but it's quite good and doesn't use too much power, and you can get a good price on it these days.

[Cyberstyle]

Thanks for the comments Andrew. From what you've said it sounds adequate for what I need.

I'm trying to keep under $3k and with Dell Australia the options are very limited.

 

Keeping to a budget the system I can get is;

 

Studio XPS 7100

Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64bit (English)

AMD Phenom™ II X6 1090T Processor (3.2GHz,9MB,6C)

1GB ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Graphics

16GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM (4X4GB)

2TB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 1TB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM HDDs)

+ the usual addons etc...

A step up from that and I would have to go for a Precision and that gets very expensive, very fast.

 

Thanks for the feeback

Cheers. Paul

[Slinger]

You may consider changing up the drives a bit. dual 1TB drives in raid...your system crashes and you are SOL. Maybe you can get a sdd for OS and one 1TB drive for storage. Also, can you get only 12gigs of ram and put the cost in a faster CPU, or is that the fastest you can get?

Just a thought.

[Cyberstyle]

Slinger,

 

The HDD are not a definite choice yet. I can also choose 2x 1TB (C & D drives) for the same price. You are right about the Raid config being a potential disaster if a drive fails - Good thinking. I forgot about that (It's happened to me once before on my old work pc).

 

With the CPU it's the best I can spec to that machine, so I can still keep my 16gb RAM.

 

 

Cheers. Paul

Edited February 16, 2011 by Cyberstyle