New Xeon systems

[arobbert]

Has anyone tried one of the new Xeon systems with 800mgz bus and PCI express graphics yet. If so I’m wondering how you like it and also how it performs with Vray, especially VIZ 4.

[DP]

will tell you in a week or so...

[arobbert]

DP, I assume you are getting a new system. Would you mind sharing your specs?

[RErender]

I just built a new one, sofar no problems and it seems pretty quick.

2x 3.0 GHZ 800fsb
Super Micro x6dal-g
2 GB Registered ECC (non-branded infineon)
PCX 5300

It is about 10%-15% faster than my Dual 2.8 533fsb

[jacksc02]

I just got a new machine

dual xeon 3.2 1mb cache
4gb ram
nvidia fx3000 256mb video card

Its a very nice machine indeed

Chris Jackson
cj@arcad.co.nz

[DP]

dual 2.8hz 1mb cache xeon...just a renderslave.

we'll be able to compare it with our 512k cached xeons...

[Da_elf]

how can you have 4GB ram? thought XP only took to 3GB ram

[jacksc02]

it does only take up to 3gb but i have had it up to 3.3gb.

Particle flow works really nicely with lots of ram!

Chris Jackson

[Mirko]

@jacksc02

@jacksc02:

I also got a new PC at work. It is a Dual Xeon 3.06 with 3GB RAM. We ordered the PNY Quadro FX3000 grafic card. Is that the same card you have?

Unfortunately we could not squeeze any pixel out of her. The screen stayed black after switching the system on. Even the grafic card's fan did not work at all. So we tried a bios update, but nothing helped. We have sent the card back to our dealer. He tested the card too and it worked fine. Now the FX 3000 is on its way back to our company. It might be an power supply problem. We are using a Tagan 480W "Power-box" (I do not know the english word - but I think you know what I mean).
Did you have any problems with your grafic card? Or anyone else?

Regards,
Mirko

[Da_elf]

if its a server mobo you might need one of those power supplies with 3 different power connections to the mother board.

[Mirko]

@Da_Elfe: Thanks for the tip. But I think we have fixed it now. It has been the 3GB RAM components. They do not work together properly when the fx 3000 is plugged into the system.
Now I have to work with 2GB of ram, nut it works fine

Regards,
Mirko