Dream Machine @ Rs. 1,50,000

[InclininWirefree]

Folks...

If you had Rs. 1,50,000 to splurge on a super rig to be used essentially for video encoding, image editing & 3D rendering work, what would its specs be in terms of:

- Motherboard
- Graphics card
- HDD
- RAM
- CPU
- Sound card

The only condition is that the machine be running dual-processors(Xeons or Opterons)...

Please advise...

Cheers!

[mail2and]

video encoding, image editing, 3d rendering... ur entering into the territory of good ol' mac....

howz a dual core powermac g5...

Dual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5
1.35GHz frontside
bus/processor
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
250GB Serial ATA
16x SuperDrive (double-layer)
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9650
256MB DDR video memory


This beauty'll cost u 3k$... in india i guess it'll be arnd 1,75,000...

imagine a dual core 2.7 ghz 64 bit g5

kicks some fx-55 a$$

[Nemesis]

Hehe no Andy. That thing will cost over 2 lakh here. I remember the 2.5GHz dual core was 237,000 so this would be more.

[pradeep_chauhan]

Get a dual opteon 250 with a tyan mobo and 2 GB of ram thats good enough Graphics card i think a 6800Gt should do the trick and yes couple of sata 200G disks

[144]

Power Mac with Apple 30" flat.

• Dual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5
• 8GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 8x1GB
• 2x400GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL w/256MB GDDR3 SDRAM
• Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel)
• Bluetooth Module + AirPort Extreme Card
• 56k V.92 internal modem
• 16x SuperDrive double-layer (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• PCI-X Gigabit Ethernet Card
• Fibre Channel PCI-X Card (w/SFP-SFP cable)
• Bluetooth Module + Apple Wireless Keyboard & Mouse - U.S. English
• Mac OS X - U.S. English

This baby will cost you 4.5 lakhs.

[bharathbala2003]

@ 144 please stick to post according to his budget.. he has said 1,50,000

anyways go for a dual opteons with 2gb ram and a 6800GT(PCI) card..as pradeep suggested must be more than enuff..

[InclininWirefree]

boyz...

dual opteron 250's themselves cost 37K each...add to that an asus k8n-dl, a 6800gt/X800XT, a 17" lcd...and i am hovering arnd the 200K mark!...a no, no 4sure

so...this is the setup i have chosen:

- dual opterons 246 (i am told 4 fps on half life2 is all you pick up on a 250)
- asus k8n-dl (i am choosing asus over tyan s2895 simply coz of better customer support (apparent) in india...your sugggestions appreciated here)
- 6800gt or x800xt? (any1 aware if the problem that nVidia was facing with the onboard video processor on the 6800s has been resolved? any1 here using 1 of those babies?)
- does seagate offer SATA 10000 rpm HDD in India?
- Corsair TWINXP1024-3200XL RAM (not sure whether OCZ has a shop in india...their pc3200 platinum rev 2 at 2-2-2 seems a fav on the net)

what sayz U?

[pradeep_chauhan]

baby

Cool the 10K disks are not available in india at least not from seagate (raptor are available from maxtor) rest all is ok

[mail2and]

if ur going for a 17" lcd, go for Samsung Syncmaster 710N... i own this thing and its a li'l beauty

600:1 Contrast Ratio
12 ms response time
16.7 million colours
17" viewable area
0.264 mm pixel pitch
1280x1024@75- Max resolution
vga input


Also Samsung has very less or no dead pixels in their LCDs.. and IMO these are the best quality LCDs around.

This thing'll cost u around 19-20k

[chinmay]

wtf guyz...why waist 1,50000 on a mac 4 which u dont even get proper softwares...make a high end pc instead....

[sandeeprao]

how about going in for an sli comp with 2 6800 gt,
and InclininWirefree if u stay in chennai u could check out zebronics an nvidia certified gaming parlour,, he sells sli comps..the cheapest one is about 80000

[pradeep_chauhan]

He requires some good processing power also for image rendering so a simple sli will not be good enough. A dual CPU is the way to go.

[shaunak]

i am a bit out of touch with tech news but here goes: correct me guys


cabinet: antec plusveiw 1000 :

pwr supply: antec true550:

mobo : intel 925 mobo:
processor imm sticking to one other wise ill blow the budget: p4 3.4 ee

memory cosiar cm2x256 4300 ddr2 522 mhz } 4 of'em

gfx card: pci express crd: auses ax600xt/td

sound card: creative audigy 2

hdd: western digital 250gb sata } two of em too

optical drive: i decided to have parallel writting so:
1) samsung RW dvd reader and cd writter
2) liton dual layer dvd writer

monitor: i would have choosen sony's 21 inch tft but it itself costs 1,50,000
thus: samsung 17inch tft
mouse: rechargeble wireless optical mouse from i ball
or logitechs rechargeble optical wireless.

keyboard microsoft pro series

speaker creative 7.1 set

[InclininWirefree]

how abt a crisp sound card...we haven't discussed that at all...

I need one that can fly all the way to helping me render CD quality music out of a Reason/Sound Forge/Cubase setup...

alse are 7.1 systems to go for?

any/all thoughs appreciated!

[InclininWirefree]

one more thing...

there seems to be a LOT of noise in forums based elsewhere abt dual-cores...gud articles ref below:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=2389

when do u see it happenin in india?

[Nemesis]

Get a Creative Audigy 2 ZS or Audigy 4 for audio. 7.1 systems are fine but not really useful. I would instead get a good 5.1 for that kind of money. Get one that features Dolby decoding and you will be all set. Use optical [TOSLINK] cables and you will get great output.

[InclininWirefree]

Guys,

Epiphanies, epiphanies, epiphanies...

Tyan & Asus boards w/ dual-Ops take Registered RAM only...wats the key differnce?...Wud i still get the 2-2-2-5 or 1-2-2-0?

wud appreciate a prompt response...cheers!

[InclininWirefree]

Originally Posted by Nemesis

Get a Creative Audigy 2 ZS or Audigy 4 for audio. 7.1 systems are fine but not really useful. I would instead get a good 5.1 for that kind of money. Get one that features Dolby decoding and you will be all set. Use optical [TOSLINK] cables and you will get great output.

dude...frm wat i gather, n correct me whre i m wrong, the audigy 2zs/4, dolby decoding and optical cables would all b geared 2wards a hallucinatory listenin' eXperience...however, my needs r geared more 2wards sound production...the actual rendering of a .wav file from a s/w like reason or acid...

wud the recommended setup provide 4 the same?

[mamba]

Originally Posted by InclininWirefree

Guys,

Epiphanies, epiphanies, epiphanies...

Tyan & Asus boards w/ dual-Ops take Registered RAM only...wats the key differnce?...Wud i still get the 2-2-2-5 or 1-2-2-0?

wud appreciate a prompt response...cheers!

sorry didnt get u . 1-2-2-0



r v talkin of ram latencies here ?

[Santosh Halemani]

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[blacklight]

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[anishcool]

dudes all of you are discussing sound cards !!!

didn't he say video editing ???

blindly go for the quadro series from nVidia

as far as processor and ram is concerned, pick what you like, but at least 2 gb ram.

Cheers !