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Hi guys,
we consider buying about 10 new workstation for our students. Being a university we tend to buy systems from dell or other bigger firms (we’ll get that a bit cheaper there) and don’t build it by ourselves ‚ ‘cos of guaranty, and service and such stuff. That means no overclocking, too. We have to stick with that system for the next 3 years and can’t even touch it to upgrade it. That’s the way it works here…
The budget is about 4000€ per machine. The prices in the US are much lower, so converting EUR in USD doesn’t work. It might be something about 4100 $ considering the US prices.
What choice seems to be a good solution?
- 2x Dual Core Xeon@5410(2,33Ghz), 4GB RAM
- 1x Quad Core Xeon@5355(2,66Ghz), 4GB RAM
- 2xQuad Core Xeon@5320(1,86Ghz), 4GB RAM
- Or maybe a MAC Pro: there you get 2x 2,66 Xeon with 8GB RAM for about the same price.
What are you considering best? What‘s about the graphics card? Vista 64Bit? Or stick with the good old XP 32Bit? Did some of you encountered any problems running a Mac Pro with Vista64? Is 8GB necessary? Consider the students usually do quite simple work. Rendertimes are definitely important, but more important is the overall workflow within max (or cinema4d, aftereffects, etc.).
I hope you have a few simple advices. Thanks a lot.
we consider buying about 10 new workstation for our students. Being a university we tend to buy systems from dell or other bigger firms (we’ll get that a bit cheaper there) and don’t build it by ourselves ‚ ‘cos of guaranty, and service and such stuff. That means no overclocking, too. We have to stick with that system for the next 3 years and can’t even touch it to upgrade it. That’s the way it works here…
The budget is about 4000€ per machine. The prices in the US are much lower, so converting EUR in USD doesn’t work. It might be something about 4100 $ considering the US prices.
What choice seems to be a good solution?
- 2x Dual Core Xeon@5410(2,33Ghz), 4GB RAM
- 1x Quad Core Xeon@5355(2,66Ghz), 4GB RAM
- 2xQuad Core Xeon@5320(1,86Ghz), 4GB RAM
- Or maybe a MAC Pro: there you get 2x 2,66 Xeon with 8GB RAM for about the same price.
What are you considering best? What‘s about the graphics card? Vista 64Bit? Or stick with the good old XP 32Bit? Did some of you encountered any problems running a Mac Pro with Vista64? Is 8GB necessary? Consider the students usually do quite simple work. Rendertimes are definitely important, but more important is the overall workflow within max (or cinema4d, aftereffects, etc.).
I hope you have a few simple advices. Thanks a lot.
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