New System on Order

[Cyber-Angel]

Well I've had it with my current system that's five or so years old

•   CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (Palomino: Package 462) 1665.4 MHz, FSB: 266.4 MHz

•   512MB Samsung DDR 133 MHz Non buffered Memory

•   ATI Radion 92000 Pro (Microsoft Family) GPU

•   75 GB Hard Drive

Windows XP (Home) 32 Bit

I am feed with this technological dinosaur so this weekend I ordered a dell workstation:

•   CPU: 2 X Intel Xeon X5482 (Harpertown) 3.20GHz

•   4GB 667MHZ EEC Quad-Channel DDR2 Fully Buffered Memory

•   Nivida Quadro FX 4600 GPU (768MB)

•   250GB SATA HDD

•   Windows Vista Business 64 Bit 

I think that this system should be a good rendering platform compared to the old as the hills system I currently have.

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel       

[old_blaggard]

Again, let me reiterate:

That must have cost a fortune!  I'll bet you're looking forward to the crazy render times you'll be able to get out of that.

[nvseal]

I recently got a new system too. Dell XPS 630i.

Core 2 - 3.16ghz
4 GB Ram
Vista Ultimate
Geforce 8800 GT 512mb
20" Widescreen Flat Panel
1 Tb Hard drive

I love it. 

[Cyber-Angel]

I must admit that I am looking forward to better rendering times that this new system will a ford and I'll be able to use populations in my images with out my system screaming. As pursuant to cost, I managed to get a discount form dell with the total system coming to $8,435.00 (Australian Dollars) or $8,106.03 (US Dollars) which isn't that bad.

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel     

[nvseal]

"$8,106.03"    :die:

I went from a single core 1.6 ghz laptop to my new one. The render times are considerably lower. Happiness.

[Tangled-Universe]

CPU: 2 X Intel Xeon X5482 (Harpertown) 3.20GHz

Are these quad-cores?
If so: I envy you

Over 8000 bucks, you must be insanely rich or just insane! lol
Congrats!

[RArcher]

Wow... Really hope that gives you the render speed you are looking for.  If I had $8000 to spend on a computer I'd be more likely to go with say four or five budget Core 2 Quads!

[lightning]

i could buy a car with that!!!