Advise on dual athlon mp, dual head, 3-D rendering workstation needed

[sirhalstead]

Looking for recommendations for video card and cooler especially, any other advise welcome.
This machine will be used primarily for creating still Maya 4 scenes.
Will it work? We don't need USB, but are the RAM and power supply compatible with this motherboard?

KDS VS-195XP 19" Flat Square Tube Monitor 1600x1200 0.22mm dpi (H)
Resolution 1600 x 1200 @ 75Hz

Tyan Tiger S2466N Dual Skt-A ATX AMD-760MPX 6PCI Lan ATX

AMD MP Palomino 1600+ CPU, SOCKET A, 266MHz FSB, Retail Box (x2)

**Cooler Master HCC-002 CPU Cooler Socket A,7,370 (x2)
Pure Copper

Kingston 256MB DDR Dimm Memory 184pin 266MHZ FSB, No ECC (x4)

Hon Hai Full Tower ATX Case With P4 300W Power Supply
P4 POWER SUPPLY SUPPORTS ALL ATX MOTHERBOARD

**Matrox Millenium G550 32MB, Matrox G550 Chipset, DDR, AGP, OEM Pack
(Must be Dual Head)

Maxtor 6L080J4 80GB, ATA/133, 7200RPM, 8.5ms, 2048K Cache, IDE HDD
OEM package.

Highpoint Rocket ATA/133 1 Channel IDE Controller

Acer 20x10x40 CD_RW Drive IDE Internal, Bulk Pack
Seamless Link features to prevent the buffer under run

Creative SB Live 5.1 PCI, OEM Pack
With EMU 10K1 synthesizer to create crystal-clear audio files

Mitsumi Floppy, 1.44 MB Ivory White Color

Intel Chip 56K V.90 Fax Modem With Voice

Aopen MS691 Speaker,140W PMPO,Headphone Jack

AOPEN KB868 PS/2,107 key keyboard with spill resistant

Award Plus Manual VGA Switcher, 2 ways, HDB15F, 2X HDB15M

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Looking for recommendations for video card and cooler especially, any other advise welcome.
This machine will be used primarily for creating still Maya 4 scenes.
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We are looking at a price of about $1500 for this configuration but we can customize to our hearts desire so let us know what we want.

Thanks.

 

[Ebola]

I use dual glaciator II's. http://millennium-thermal.com

 

[robertm]

I would go with a larger Power Suppy 400 or more watts. Alot of poeple have problems with 300 watt PS in a single CPU setup.

I have and am very happy with my Enermax FS-981 Series File Server Case It has place in the top back and front bottem for 120mm fans. But I did have to add 1/2 inch holes under the front of the cover to allow airflow for the front 120mm fan. This and the two MCX370 swiftech HSF keeps my dual MP1800s at 40 and 41 C under load. I am going with water cooling so am sure a good copper HFS will do even better. Only resion I bring up case is it can have a large effect and the cooling. And I love mine.

I sized my fans so that I would get some positive pressure.

Now to get to your questions really about the video am not sure.

From the research I did when I was shopping for a dual CPU MB I think that MB need registered memory to work well and there was some issues with using all 4 sockets. But in any case I would buy just one large DDR DIMM as for most poeple the fewer moduls they have installed the better stabilty they have. But some of this is going from memory I would go to the Motherboard portion of this board and look around and I also would do more research at www.2cpu.com

 

[donny_paycheck]

A 400+ watt PSU, Glaciator IIs and a Nvidia Quadro 4 for graphics.

 

[diehrd]

Tyan S2466n-4m Make sure you get this model number..usb is fixed and oc features are in it ..


Ram get regestered 2x256 {It says non is ok but dont chance it }

Check Tyans site on that Matrox 550 May have issues

Power supply I seriously suggest the COMPUSA 500 watter
Great price 79.99 awsom output 40a on the 5v line.

Check promise controlers {Personal preference}

GL

 

[Ebola]

robertm, I have a gig of non-registered non-ecc ram (4x256) with no problems.

 

[deez]

Just a few considerations.

You will not want to overclock your rendering station b/c if it goes down then you may miss important deadlines so the retail heatsinks should do fine with proper case airflow.

The XP 1800+ just dropped in price to about $130 for the retail model

and I also think you will need a 400W or greater good quality PSU. If you get an Antec case like the SX1040 then you will have a sweet case and high quality PSU. Check them out here http://www.antec-inc.com/product/cases/perfhome.html