I don't know what prices would be like for you in the UK, but in the states, you can build a vertiable war machine of core PC hardware for that kind of cash. Going through my favorite online seller, I built: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe nForce4 4x1gb Corsair TwinX2048 EVGA GeForce 7900 GTX superclocked…
if you were putting together a new pc specifically for 3d work, what components would you order.I am thinking mainly cpu and video card here. I will probably go for a dual core cpu , 'amd' not 'intel'
[ QUOTE ] I will probably go for a dual core cpu , 'amd' not 'intel' [/ QUOTE ] The intel conroe is looking good (http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5692) cheers.
Yeah SCSI is definitely where it's at as far as reliability. Most SCSI drives have a 5-year warranty but they will normally last much longer than that. Fibrechannel is a great bus for large arrays but it just comes down to how fast the seek times and sustained transfers are. A single drive is a good $300-$800 so that's…
If your goal is to get a massive e-cock from your texture memory just make sure you get a card thats actually fast enough to allocate that much memory, i've seen 512mb 6800s perform the same as 128 mb 6600gts... I wouldnt outright go for SLI off the bat, thats more of an upgrade thing. Wait for a game to be released that…