Dual or Quad Xeon Motherboard
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Hi I am looking for a Minimum of a dual Xeon Motherboard, prefer a Quad for future upgrade. I have looked around for suppliers but all i can find is trade stockists .
Also i am looking for a decent workstation, before you could get a P3 dual motherboard is there a similar item for the P4 Chip???
Dual Xeon will for Render 3D Graphics and 3D Movies in ProE and 3DS Max, for presentation/marketing purposes. the workstation wil be for development.
Dont really want to shell out for a purpose built machine from Dell or similar as i already have the graphics card Harddrives monitors etc.
We already use a Quad Xeon 400Mhz with 1Gig Ram but its showing its age now.
Steve
Also i am looking for a decent workstation, before you could get a P3 dual motherboard is there a similar item for the P4 Chip???
Dual Xeon will for Render 3D Graphics and 3D Movies in ProE and 3DS Max, for presentation/marketing purposes. the workstation wil be for development.
Dont really want to shell out for a purpose built machine from Dell or similar as i already have the graphics card Harddrives monitors etc.
We already use a Quad Xeon 400Mhz with 1Gig Ram but its showing its age now.
Steve
stc_bennett said:I've tested a dual Xenon with Pro/E KO1 and Solidworks.
Dual Xeon will for Render 3D Graphics and 3D Movies in ProE and 3DS Max, for presentation/marketing purposes. the workstation wil be for development.
None of the modelling applications will work with both processors (ie. large assemblies), but the Solidworks renderer does.
The Pro/Photorender unfortunately only uses one CPU.
You may want to test Linux clusters, when you need lots of renderings (somebody proposed to buy 500 MS X-Boxes and cluster them with Linux
). We use HP-UX server farms for computationally intensive tasks like CAE and structural analysis and the dual Xeon workstations are intended to compute smaller tasks at the engineer's desktop.www.dabs.com do them
as does scan.co.uk
workstation wise, Xeon is the most common setup, either single or dual. From workstations of old used to mostly use server aimed chips because of their obvious stability and load advantages.
I'd recommend Supermicro kit, from what i've seen and heard they make some good sturdy kit with good features.
as does scan.co.uk
workstation wise, Xeon is the most common setup, either single or dual. From workstations of old used to mostly use server aimed chips because of their obvious stability and load advantages.
I'd recommend Supermicro kit, from what i've seen and heard they make some good sturdy kit with good features.
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