advice on computer graphics workstation (1 Viewer)

[felix_suwarno]

i am in san diego for siggraph 2003 and might not be able to check this thread in a few days...siggraph ends today.

i need to build workstations for my company, for maya 5 unlimited.

what processors? opteron or xeon? i want double proc.
what would be the matching mobo for either ones?
quadro fx or firegl x2? both seems to be solid performers, i have seen them in action...but couldnt decide. couldnt find benchmarks for quadro fx3000 versus firegl x2-256...they are too new.

money is no object for these three components.

thanks in advance.

 

[Darren Lewis]

If money is no object, I'd say go for dual Xeons. Supermicro seem to make some good dual Xeon motherboards. Have a look at www.2cpu.com for some more advice.

Darren.

 

[JamesHl]

More and more software devs are putting out updates for their software that allows use of 64 bits for rendering and other things, I would go with the Opteron. New ones are coming out soon, though, I would wait for those. But it seems like the way of the future.

 

[DonRoeber]

Have you considered the Dual 2GHz G5 PowerMacs? They'll run Maya 5 Complete.