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- Feb 3, 2005
I have been given the task of building a high powered workstation for a friend who does a lot of work with 3D Max, Maya, etc. At the moment he working with a Athlon 4800+ (939) and 4GB RAM. It was enough when I built it 3 years ago, (even bet the overpriced Boxxtech machines at his workplace at the time ) but now he’s struggling for memory because he's working with such a high polygon count.
So I'm just looking for some opinions on what to build. He's looking for a lot of processing power and at least 8GB RAM. So at the moment I'm thinking of a new quad opteron and a dual socket motherboard (will allow for a 2nd cpu in the future or now if the budget allows). So are the new Opterons a good choice or are the Xeons a better option? Also, any recommendations on a motherboard that has 2 PCI-Express slots as he needs 3+ DVI connectors, 2 widescreen LCD's and one of those lovely Wacom tablet displays.
So I'm just looking for some opinions on what to build. He's looking for a lot of processing power and at least 8GB RAM. So at the moment I'm thinking of a new quad opteron and a dual socket motherboard (will allow for a 2nd cpu in the future or now if the budget allows). So are the new Opterons a good choice or are the Xeons a better option? Also, any recommendations on a motherboard that has 2 PCI-Express slots as he needs 3+ DVI connectors, 2 widescreen LCD's and one of those lovely Wacom tablet displays.