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Re: Workstation video card

Just a little personal workstation experience. I run a Dell 530 Low End workstation for PRO/E with the following:

Dual 1.5 GHz Intel Xeon Processors (Not necessary PRO/E is designed for single processor machines)
1.5 GB RAM (Worth it, see below)
NVidea Quadro2 Pro Video card (3rd card is the charm, I already burned up 2)

This is a three year old machine on which I manipulate 3-d models of power plants with few issues. When I got it I had 756 MB of RAM and had trouble. Since I got the upgrade I've had no trouble. The additional processor speed on newer machines doesn't make a big difference in their performance like the RAM. The NVidea is impressive but when I fail that about once a year it makes me leary of them. As it is the IT department always wonders what I will call them with next .

As it is I can run the student version of the software at home on my PC (1.8 GHz P4, 500 MB RAM) and the limiting factor for model size is RAM.

BTW I also do the occasional photorealistic render from CAD on my workstation as well.
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Re: Workstation video card

We are not still entirely sure if this is what we are going to do, but here is what we are thinking right now:

Pentium 4 3.0E LGA 775
Gigabyte Mobo, 865P chipset
1GB (2x512) Corsair Value select RAM
Sapphire Radeon 9600XT
120GB SATA HDD
CDRW drive
17" LCD monitor
Case with 400W PSU

Total: Approx. $1000 from newegg.com
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Re: Workstation video card

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Pentium 4 3.0E LGA 775
Gigabyte Mobo, 865P chipset
1GB (2x512) Corsair Value select RAM
Sapphire Radeon 9600XT
120GB SATA HDD
CDRW drive
17" LCD monitor
Case with 400W PSU
I'd personally go with a Socket 478 CPU, namely the Pentium 4 2.4C or the 2.8C. A good Socket 478 board will be cheaper than an LGA 775 board and thus would allow you to move up to the i875 chipset series. Also the Pentium 4 C series (Northwood core, 512KB L2 Cache) have a lower operating temperature range, which will allow for less exotic cooling systems. Other than that, a great system for pretty much anything. It will perform workstation-class tasks with easy.

The last workstation-class system I used was a Pentium 4 2.0GHz (Socket 423), 256MB of dual-channel PC1066 RDRAM, and a Quadro4 750XGL. That i850-based system was the most stable computer I ever used, but it is not tremendously powerful by today's standards.

Unless you are doing very serious rendering/CAD/CAM/CAE, a terribly (excessively) powerful computer will be useless and will just consume lots of power. I used Inventor for three years on a Pentium 166MHz, 64MB RAM, and a 2MB ATI mach64 (i could get 15fps in wireframe mode!). I never could use 3ds max on it however...
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Re: Workstation video card

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ok, got it, quadro/fireGL videocard is overkill...

so basically its mostly processor power. weird. I am used to apps where its all about the video card. THis comp is being designed primarily for the 3ds Max, with possible CAD also. Would it be better to go AMD Athlon 64? I know that these are best for gaming and other 3d apps, but better for animation also? And if we could manage it, we could do maybe up to 4gb RAM and a sweet video card, possibly an nvidia Geforce 6800GT.

Possible system specs, not including drives, etc.

Pentium4 3.0+
4GB RAM (PC3200)
Nvidia 6800GT?

or

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ or better
4GB RAM (PC3200)
Nvidia 6800GT?

or whatever video card would work well. We do want this system to last quite a while.
If you get a P4 board with PCI-E, I'd go with the 6600GT.
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