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
:o
Again, let me reiterate: :o
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.
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. ;D
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
"$8,106.03" :o :die:
I went from a single core 1.6 ghz laptop to my new one. The render times are considerably lower. Happiness.
CPU: 2 X Intel Xeon X5482 (Harpertown) 3.20GHz
Are these quad-cores?
If so: I envy you ;D
Over 8000 bucks, you must be insanely rich or just insane! ;D lol
Congrats!
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!
i could buy a car with that!!!