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Posted by nappy on 11/04/07 17:54
I just built 25 of these for around $700 each. They rip. We pulled one out
from the render farm and made it a workstation
Asusw P5K-VM motherboards.
Q6600 Intel Quad Core 2.4GHZ
2G DDR2-800
160G Sata Drive
InWin MicroATX Case
Add the low profile GeForce of your choice and a 500G Drive.
I have a few of the Dual Quad Core Intel Mac Pro Machines (8 Xeons @ 3GHZ)
in our system and the little Asus units render at a little less than 2/3 as
fast as the Intel Macs. Rather than 1/2 as I expected. So a pair of them at
$1400 turned out to be a much better buy than the Macs.
Macs are for sale BTW! If ya want one.
"Martin Heffels" <goofie@flikken.net> wrote in message
news:hmrqi3pbb6ti083t7hebbl0ue93777e7qi@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:40:15 -0700, "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net>
> wrote:
>
>><bendespain@gmail.com> wrote ...
>>>
>>> Here's a little background on my system.
>>>
>>> OS: Vista Ultimate
>>> Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+
>>> RAM: 2Gigs in Dual Mode
>>> HD: 300 Gig 7200 SATA
>>> Video: Nvidia GeForce 8600GT (256 GDDR3)
>>
>>You have just the one hard drive?
>>You have the video AND the operating system and programs
>>etc, etc. all on the same hard drive? (Partitioning doesn't count)
>
> I have a fairly similar system, however I have a dedicated RAID-0 for my
> video. I can easily playback HDV on my Avid in "medium". Also if I play
> back a raw M2t-file with Media Player Classic, this goes without a hitch.
> So, it is possible on your system, but only very limited.
>
>>Assuming you have reasonably optimized the system by
>>not running lots of junk in the background. Note that
>>lots of the eye-candy features of Vista count as useless
>>junk that just chew up precious CPU cycles with no real
>>benefit.
>
> Did you install the Vista hotfixes for Nvidia cards? (released in
> September).
>
>>Assuming you also know that the Intel Core 2 Duo and
>>Quad CPUs beat the sox off anything from AMD.
>
> For now ;-) The new announced AMD's are supposed to change this, again.
> However, upgrading to, say a Core 2 Duo 6650, will certainly improve
> performance a bit :-)
>
> cheers
>
> -martin-
> --
> Official website "Jonah's Quid" http://www.jonahsquids.co.uk
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