Could someone suggest hardware for 3dsmax and vray?

[pengo]

2 Dschaga

thanks for the reply

U are european as I can see by your user info so could u tell me how much in your country for a system like this?

Or do u know an internet shop with lowest prices respect those?

THANK U IN ADVANCE

[Fermi]

Hi Pengo,

I know them onsite, not online, but they've been in bussiness for a while, and IMO they are a serious PC Shop:

http://www.pcgreen.com

they are in Barcelona, spain.

cheers

Fermí

[n6]

pengo, good choice, but instead two hdd, take one with 250gb or a small internal 120gb and an additonal external hdd over firewire..it performs like an internal hdd.

1800euro seems to be very highpriced for your configuration. BTW.

there is 2 similar HD in this config because the P4C800-E motherboard support RAID (raid0, 1 and 0+1) .

[pengo]

to N6 and others

do u think it is too expensive?

The friend who did the configuration told me that the ram is the fastest on the market at the moment and the cpu is one of the last

do u think could be better a slower cpu and more ram like 2 GB for my pc usage? (architectural renderings)


is it true that vray and max consider p4 HT like a dual processors?
with this kind of cpu I eard that vray calculates two bakes like in dual processors system. Is it true?
If yes on wich operating system? XP or 2000 too?

I hope that this long thread doesn't offend anyone I mean should I be on off topic?

bye to all

[Syclone1]

To take full advantage of the HT you should go with XP pro. The ram is not the fastest but thoes are good chips and will work well for your config. On a personal note for the HD's I would go with the Western Digital drives as I personaly have found them to be verry reliable and running nothing but in my current systems SATA and IDE. Also if you dont mind a little more noise the WD Raptor 10,000rpm SATA drives rock for your OS drive

-dave

[n6]

chassis: CASE CHIEFTEC DX-01B-D-U BLACK USB 500
http://www.openjl.fr/affiche_produit.asp?num=1885

69.00 €


cd/dvd: LG 4082 DVD+/- RW 8X
http://www.ldlc.fr/fiche/PB00019290.html?origine=670003

69.95 €


videocard: GAINWARD FX 5700ULTRA 128MB DDR GS
http://www.grosbill.com/index.php3?s...l.com&id=12721

199.00 €


HDD: 2x SEAGATE 120GB BARRACUDA 7200.7 SATA
http://www.texinfo.fr/product_info.p...roducts_id=612

195.40 €


Intel Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz HT 800MHz
http://www.e-soph.com/pub/index.php?...2540&origin=10

259.00 €



CORSAIR XMS3200 TWINX 2*512MB PRO
http://www.grosbill.fr/index.php3?id=11381&site=mprix

289.00 €


P/M ASUS P4C800 DLX ATX DDR HT
http://www.multe-pass.com/boutique/f...cfm?ref=101150

163.60 €



TOTAL = 1 244.95 €



I m sorry all the shops are based in FRANCE but you can see that YES your config is a bit expensive

[pengo]

hey n6

hey n6

u are not a friend

u are an angel

THANK U very very much

[n6]

no problem

but as Sushidelic said, youd better buy a FX5800 or 5900 because thoose can be softmodded to Quadro card while the 5700 can't.

[Fermi]

One last thought,

With the savings n6 brought up, you may consider:

Change the ASUS P4C800 single processor mobo for an ASUS PC-DL dual xoen mobo, adding about 60,00 ~ 80,00 €

Change the One P4 3,2/800 by ONE Xeon 2,8/533 adding about 100,00 €

Memory will be a bit cheaper for the PC-DL

The idea is you have a single 2,8 Ghz today, adding another processor later upgrading to a DUAL in a few months with minimal effort.

Or simply add the second Xeon now for some 340,00 ~ 400,00 €

Should fit in the 1.800,00 € budget.

Cheers

[Dschaga]

hi pengo,
i think you should get all your items for under 1500euros if you buy it from one dealer.

About the dual xeon solution, which is a good alternative : there are socket604 and socket603 dual xeon mobo.
I think ONLY socket603 will work with only one cpu and as far as i remember the asus is a socket604 ..or was it turnaround?
On most pro boards you will need a very expensive psu, but i think the asus is happy with a normal atx psu.

[Syclone1]

The PSU's for the xeons are not much more than the reg ATX PSU's. I recently bought 2 PSU's 1 for an ATX and 1 for a xeon:

Antec True Power 550W for single AMD - $159.95cdn
Antec True Power 550W for Dual Xeon - $169.95cdn

The main difference between the two is an extra 4 wire power lead for the Xeon CPU's.

-dave

[Eaton]

Do u need to run sever software if u have a dual system?

[pengo]

thanks for the replies to all

I bought a p4 3.2 Ghz 2 GB Ram two SATA HDD in raid 0 for a total of about 225 GB a geforce with 256MB as graphic card and dvd drive

It seems fast as always not fast as I expect everytime I change pc but fast

bye and thanks again

[pGrim]

How much does the graphic card really matter?

[pengo]

WOW Pgrim what avatar

GREAT

WONDERFUL


About the card I think that its importance is realtive to the work u do

If u generally have a scene with complex models with high number of faces u need powerful graphic card if your scene is something about one object u don't need so powerful one

That's whatn I think about it

EXCUSE MY BAD ENGLISH

bye