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3 Jan 2003, 01:46
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£9k PC Specs
One's for leaving on all day and night for most of the week while running as a workstation whenever as I feel like (raid), the 2nd for 3D work and the box for routing and stuff.
PC 1:
AMD Palomino 1533@1735
Alpha PAL8045 + 80mm YS-Tech Fan
Abit KX7333 w/ Crystal Orb Cooled Northbridge
1024MB (2x512Mb Modules) Samsung PC2700@150Mhz (2-2-2 + Ultra Command Decode But 2T Command Rate)
3Ware Escalade 6410 Storage Switch (BIOS: BE6X 1.07.00.05)
Array 0: 2x80Gb WD Caviar SE w/8mb Cache (64K Stripe)
Array 2: 2x120Gb WD Caviar SE w/ 8mb Cache (512K Stripe)
PNY GF4 Ti4600@325/675 128Mb
Sony CPD-G220 at a Desktop Res of 1152x864 32bit @ 100Hz
3Com 3CR990SVR97 ARM9 Cored Server NIC w/ 256k Unified Cache
3Com 3C905TX Parallel Tasking Desktop NIC
Asus 50x CD Drive
Pioneer 105s DVD Drive (RPC I)
Lite-on 32x LTR32123S CD Burner (Firmware LTR40125S)
Windows 2000 Professional SP3
PC 2
AMD Palomino 1466
GlobalWin SAK-38 + Delta BlackLabel 7000rpm 60mm Fan
IWill KK266-PlusR/BR> 768MB (3x256Mb Modules) Corsair PC150@133Mhz (2-2-2)
60Gb Seagate HD
10Gb Fujitsu HD
Else GF2 Ultra@300/500 64Mb
Generic 17" Monitor at a Desktop Res of 1024x768 32bit @ 85Hz
DLink DFE-530TX VIA Rhine Desktop NIC
Mitsumi 24x CD-Rom
Windows 2000 Professional SP3
Box
Dual Intel Pentium II 350
Supermicro P6DBS w/ onboard Adaptec UW SCSI
640Mb PC100 SDRAM
10Gb Maxtor HD
Creative GeForce DDR 32Mb
Realtek 8139c Desktop NIC w/ 2(2k) FIFO Buffers
Aopen 32x CD Drive
Yamaha 4x2x6 SCSI CD Burner
Redhat Linux 8.0
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3 Jan 2003, 01:50
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3 Jan 2003, 01:59
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Originally posted by Nodrog
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got any white hairs yet Nod?
Flavius - these are 2nd pc specs - a friend is offering to sell 'em to me so I'd change the ram between the 2 systems (I can do so thanks to the mobo's)
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3 Jan 2003, 02:00
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Why 3? surely one is enough.
Personally i'd blow the lot on one watercooled silent pc oc'd to a ridiculous level.
Also why on earth have you specced the pc 'for 3d work' with a crap monitor, cpu and gfx?!? 3ds max on 1024x768 doesnt actually fit the full tab panel width (so if your using that its going to be a bit pointless). and when your doing bulk animations i'd expect at least a dual cpu setup to get a decent render performance.
Remember you can only use one at any one time.
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3 Jan 2003, 02:01
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Quote:
Originally posted by Androme2
Flavius - these are 2nd pc specs - a friend is offering to sell 'em to me so I'd change the ram between the 2 systems (I can do so thanks to the mobo's)
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Defiantley not worth £9k.
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3 Jan 2003, 02:02
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not heavy 3d work - well yet anyway
I just got myself a LW license after I sold a few old designs hanging around and as far as I've tested it works ok on it
I could use my first workstation instead but I'm keeping things seperate atm (when I get 'em)
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3 Jan 2003, 02:04
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Quote:
Originally posted by Androme2
I could use my first workstation instead but I'm keeping things seperate atm (when I get 'em)
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Why?
My current pc beats them all for 3d work and its a heap!
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3 Jan 2003, 02:06
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For 3d work, the most important part is the monitor. If i had £9k i'd spend at least £2k on that alone.
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3 Jan 2003, 02:12
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Well if you can find me a decent jobby deal for less than £9k featuring 2 pc's - 1 machine with RAID, thermaltake cooling system or something, network cards, cd writing hardware etc. and a 2nd box for less then sure I'll take it
Oh - I just got a link about a Sony monitor - Multiscan F520 - seems stable and good. £770
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3 Jan 2003, 02:14
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honestly though, why 3?
So what if it has a tt cooling system? The processors are both slower than mine and I got it for about £60.
Monitor is nice tho.
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3 Jan 2003, 12:29
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If youre wanting to do serious graphics work, you should buy an Apple Mac instead.
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3 Jan 2003, 12:32
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with 9k id buy 1 big pc thats scarily fast and has more space both in terms of memory and hdd than you can shake a stick at.
pls explan why u need 3 and not 1?
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3 Jan 2003, 12:40
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With 9k I'd buy a £1.5k laptop and another £500 on some sort of satellite ISP thing and spend the rest on getting my lardy white ass to Australia so I could sit and do all my work on Bondai beach.
Now THAT'S a good use of £9,000, buying 3 PC's ISN'T
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3 Jan 2003, 12:43
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Quote:
Originally posted by Androme2
Well if you can find me a decent jobby deal for less than £9k featuring 2 pc's - 1 machine with RAID, thermaltake cooling system or something, network cards, cd writing hardware etc. and a 2nd box for less then sure I'll take it
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Christsakes man, go cost the parts on dabs or something.
You could build 4 or 5 substantially better PCs with monitors for £9k if you do it yourself. £1800 per PC (assuming 5) is a very generous budget for a self build operation.
As for not wanting to do it yourself - I hear 2 excuses from people for why they don't want to. They don't know how to - which is crap, because everything comes with instructions and even if it didn't its pretty obvious, and they don't have the time - which is also crap as you can put a PC together in about 30 minutes if you're in a rush. Most of the time is spent installing the software - something you'll have to do anyway.
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3 Jan 2003, 14:31
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dabs is sometimes quite expencive iirc
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3 Jan 2003, 14:38
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My PC beats the hell out of any of those machines and cost £900 - where on Earth are you buying them from? Mars?
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3 Jan 2003, 14:39
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Quote:
Originally posted by BesigedB
dabs is sometimes quite expencive iirc
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Then look around, scan or ebuyer or whatever, but it sure as hell won't cost that much.
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3 Jan 2003, 14:58
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Originally posted by Supernova9
Then look around, scan or ebuyer or whatever, but it sure as hell won't cost that much.
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hehe, could see who can get all the stated parts for the cheapest (including links) in a competition-type thing.
...or not.
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3 Jan 2003, 15:00
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With 9K I's buy something that has either Sun or Sisco on it.
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3 Jan 2003, 15:21
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personally id go for option 2.
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3 Jan 2003, 15:23
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oh cray do an "X1" for 2.5million U$D :-)
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3 Jan 2003, 15:23
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Cisco
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3 Jan 2003, 15:23
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oh cray do an "X1" for 2.5million U$D :-)
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3 Jan 2003, 15:26
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What have I told you about doubleposting JJ?
Remember - we press the "Submit Reply" button and then we.....
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3 Jan 2003, 17:25
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For all you people asking 'why do you need 3 pcs' i think you should burn in hell, as i desperatly need a 3rd pc :/ I have an openbsd gateway and theres my dualboot linux/windows pc, but id like a 3rd windows pc to sit well away from all the others so i can leave it on downloading stuff and not worry about the fact i need to reboot to switch os!
And you could buy 3 of the best wintel pcs available for £9k though they probably wouldnt come with a spangly monitor good enough for proper 3D work.
What designs did you sell btw?
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3 Jan 2003, 18:19
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Quote:
Originally posted by Apothos
hehe, could see who can get all the stated parts for the cheapest (including links) in a competition-type thing.
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www.pcindex.co.uk
i 'win'
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