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Cameron

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I'm planning a system! - a number crunching 3D CAD system that will be tested and stressed by the operator who has totally unrealistic demands.

As ever money is short so I would like to spend it in the right places.

The idea
- to assemble a twin processor board using two older/slower/cheaper processors. + to use two harddrives - one for the operating system and one for the virtual memory/working data (possably even another for the working directory) - stuff in a good graphics card and a ton of memory then Bang in the oven for about 30 mins


Questions? -
- Is this a waste of time or would I be better with the fastest single processor I can afford?
- If I buy only one fast HDD where should it be used - OS / Virtual memory / C:/ ?
- Any recommendations on what I should use.


Best regards

Cameron
 
As little a possible! - to replace a wine damaged Laptop

At £500 the wife will not have to know!

At £1000 I'll have to do some fast talking

At £1500 I'll have to listen to some serious nagging

At £2k well! some experience are left un-experienced!

Its not how much its how I spend it?

I want a £14k 3 litre Honda not a £120k Bentley continental GT

Cameron
 
go for the top top motherboard look out for asuz or abit!

thats my bit of advice!
 
I use a Dell xeon (2, 2.1 GHz processors) at work for CAD and SQL server stuff, i think its a s"££$it PC

I would defiantly get an Intel set up though for what you need, AMD are more suited to Media and games as a rule of thumb
 
I would think that a dual core system using either an Athlon64 X2 or one of the Intel Pentium D processors would give better bang-for-buck. If you go dual CPUs you are talking about an expensive motherboard and two reasonably pricey CPUs: either Xeons or Opterons (unless there is still an Athlon MP?). With the dual core solution, though, a compatible motherboard will be price comparative with other quality single CPU boards and you only have one CPU socket to fill, too. And power consumption and system cooling will be simplified, especially in an AMD set-up. Save the cash and pile on the RAM and possibly a faster disk sub-system.
 
how did i miss this :confused:

you want either an AMD FX series or dual core CPU, with a couple of western digital raptors and a storage HD, a good quality motherboard, atleast 2GB of RAM, and a matrox graphics card which are ufortunately AGP so a dual core CPU is not possible

something like this

A8V Deluxe
AMD FX-55
2 GB corsair value
2X 36.7 GB raptors
200GB Western Digital
Matrox Parhelia 8x TripleHead
480W tagan PSU

plus case and other bits you'll be looking at about £1500
 
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