workstation_question

[Palee]

Hi,

We are planing to upgrade a workstation.
The plan is a dual 2.8-3 Ghz Xeon.

First question:

What kind of motherboard do you advise for these cpu's?

Second:

What kind of graphic card do you advise for 3D and 2D composite?
(Now a Matrox Parhelia Triplehead 256 mb is the best I find within a given budget...) Any pro or contra?

Thanks!

Palee

[Syclone1]

Palee,

Check out the hardware forum at either www.charchitect.com or www.3dluvr.com there is a wealth of information posted there that will help you out alot.

-dave

[guardian256]

go to http://www.boxxtech.com

best machines you can get. email the sales people and they'll do you a deal.

[Palee]

Thank you guys, I will check the sites!

guardian256: We thought about Boxxtech, but here in Hungary the BOXX is sooooo expensive.... :/

(Low budget, only for TV...)

Best regards,
Palee

[3dform]

I have a dual 2.66 GHz Xeon with Ati fireGL x1 from Dell with WinXP.

- its fast and stabil, overall a nice machine...
- on rendering it get's a little lound (like a jet-plane)
- The X1 is really wastet on Max. Max performance is so low that my old Ati 8500 is nearly working same speed. Anyhow other application run very fast... My tip: Buy an Ati9700 and enable the AntiAlias mode with OpenGL, very cool!
- The HT feature is also waste. Vray crash all time and max get instabil. I disabled it, which is sad.
- If you want to save money by a P4 system as workstation and get a dual AMD for rendering.

For compositing: Go for Pinnacle Studio with a Ati8500 special for realtime effects

regards,

robert