New work station advice please.

[Eaton]

Sorry I know there r a couple of threads on this subject.
I also looked at the bench mark thread and the vray_cpu_benchmark.xls
I am a bit confused as to if this is a good workstation, is 2.4 ghz fast enough and is 4 gig of ram enough theses days?

Specs our IT guy put together:

Intel Quad Core 2.4ght
Nvidia Geforce 8800GT
Inlet Dragontail Peak Motherboard
Kinston DDR2 667 2gb Memory X2

Thanks for looking
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[rmejia]

is 4 gig of ram enough theses days?

It really depends on the size of your scene. If you have an exterior scene with trees, cars, people, buildings, etc... 4gigs might not be enough. I think a quad 2.4ghz is fine, mostly because the price on those Q6600 chips is very good Some people have overclocked it to over 3.4ghz, but I have never tried that so...

[werticus]

just buy 8 gig of ram, the price is so cheap its not important.

you cant buy more for that cpu though have to get a xeon or opteron to deal with more.

also define fast enough? how many of them are you getting?

[dlparisi]

just buy 8 gig of ram, the price is so cheap its not important.

Be sure to get a 64 bit windows and Max version as well, otherwise it will go unused.

[Subburb]

Q6600 rev G0 here, running @3.3 Ghz. reallly fast... and very simple to OC with gigabyte ds3R mobo.
all running under vista64 without problem.
have a look to nvidia 9600 series.. good price, good performances.

[Eaton]

Thanks for the replies/advice.
I think I will go ahead with it. I am going to ask for a quote for 8 gigs of ram and xeon or opteron cpu's, will probably be 2 much $$$$
I am only getting one of these But we r getting some render nodes, intel dual core 2.4 ghz 2 gigs ram Should make life a bit easier

Thanks
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