Posted by nappy on 11/04/07 19:15

"Matt" <mttmrrsn_blablabla@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "nappy" <n@n.n> wrote in message
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>>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
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>> Asusw P5K-VM motherboards.
>> Q6600 Intel Quad Core 2.4GHZ
>> 2G DDR2-800
>> 160G Sata Drive
>> InWin MicroATX Case
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>> Add the low profile GeForce of your choice and a 500G Drive.
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>> 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.
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>> Macs are for sale BTW! If ya want one.
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> Is there any advantage in using the Western Digital 10,00RPM drives or are
> SATA 300 drives in RAID 0 enough?

Just guessing here but I would think the RAID would be fine. When I setup
our raid I set it up for just under 400M/Sec. So it works for everything.


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