What hardware you use?

[Stryker]

interesting to know because I want to buy new computer soon.

[freaker_ca]

I just built a new machine that I will be very happy with for quite a while
dual opteron 280 cpu
asus k8n-dl mobo
Radeon X800 XL 512MB video card (it's ok, like the 512mb thoguh)

[Stryker]

games works very fast I think?

[freaker_ca]

sure do. games load much faster now (hl2, bf2,swat). now i'm always the server with lan games. :) renders are fast too. 4 buckets. the opteron 280 is a dual core cpu. i couldn't be happier with my new machine. i forgot to mention earlier that i have 2 gigs ram.

[Stryker]

I want to buy geforce 6600gt and AMD +3000

[Kazus]

If you want to buy computer for 3d, Intel will work better than AMD

[freaker_ca]

Originally Posted by Kazus

If you want to buy computer for 3d, Intel will work better than AMD

that's what i thought, i also have a dual xeon rig. it just depends on which intel to amd cpu you compare. 1 dual core opteron is faster than a xeon of comparable mhz. from all the research i've done which includes speaking with amd and intel as well as a 3ds max dealer, the amd dual core's beat intel xeon. for gaming it's amd hands down. i made the switch to amd in december but it took me months of research to leave intel. that's my 2 cents worth anyway.

[Kazus]

I was talking about Athlon family processors.

[Hires]

Better choise is dual core and x86/64, AMD and Intel provide a various types of this production and now a day it's costs normal money + adressing up to 8Gb of memoty :)

[fco3d]

I have a pentium III x2 processors with 1,5 RAM it works fine with 3d MAX and Photoshop the software that I use most. I'm thinking in upgrade my Pc,(I'm talking about a pentium D 3Ghz with 1G DDR2 Ram.
Video and sound doesn't matter, I have what I need already.) but at the same time a friend is selling me and AMD Altlon Xp(1,3Ghz 800 RAM) 2 processors. My first interst is in render speed, I never try network render, it will be a big difference if I try network render with 2 PC or I just do a good upgrade to my workstation???????



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[Kage]

I wouldn't bother with getting a 6600GT now.

Get a 7600GT and you'll be laughing :D Thats alot better, trust me, and will last longer.

I'm running on a 3500+ (stock), BFG 6800GS OC (The 7600GT is actually cheaper in some places, yet performs better depending on the game/resoloutions (though never worse)!),

1GB Geil RAM, ABIT AV8 3rd eye motherboard, 120 GB drive, Sound Blaster Live sound card (connected to a Creative Inspire 2.1 set), 500Watt PSU, Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 PRO CPU cooler.

Looking to get a X-FI sound card, and a set of Logitech 5.1 Z500's speakers :p (When I have money)

fco3d, network rendering would speed things up alot. Upgrading a workstation can only do so much...
Get a dual core though, and who knows :D

[lordy]

I have 2200+ Athlon XP, G-Force FX 5500 128, 512 DDR, Maxtor 40 GB. I am not even close to be satisfied, I would like to upgrade but my pocket doesen't let me. :( So I just dream on... :cry:

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hi stryker

i suggest you :
intel p4 extreme edition hyper threading (dual core )
mb gigabyte intelchipset 955 x dual core
vga (HIS ATI radeon x1900 xtx CROSS FIRE)
hd maxtor sata 1 or sata 2
ram 2 gb dual channel ddr 2
liquid cooling system for processor

yeah , its a superior pc,but it may cost much money i know

for me i have :

- intel p4 2.8 ghz cash 1 mb with processor cooler (gigabyte turbo rocket cooler up to 4500 rpm)
- mb gigabyte intel chipset 856pe ga 8ipe1000 rev 3.x
- 1 gb ram dual channel (4 x 256 mb)
- vga ATI radeon 9600 xt 256 mb (gpu 526 mhz)

[martys]

Look out for setups with Core 2 Duo processors, they are for our kind of work awesome at very fair price.

Mainboard 965 chipset
Core 2 Duo (4 MB Cache) even slowest one you will love
RAM - more you can
64bit Windows XP (forget vista for few years)
Graphics card, for me 7800 GT is faster i can use.

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i agree with martys
the financial cost really squwwzws our desires with a strong work station(sorry i always dream to have my own work station-or a pc like that i talked about above) ;)))))