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.
*a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/748/store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/productshot_pm_g5_0608.jpg
• 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:

*www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.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]

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]

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 ?

 

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