New computer on its way. Dual 1gig P3's

[Burning_Inside]

Chesty:


Do yourself a big favor and go to this site:

www.Speedguide.net

Go tot he computer hardware discussion forums. Those guys there are all types of people that thrive on top of the line this and that and know what's what and will give you the exact info you want instead of beating around the bush at a fitness general chat forum. Post your system specs, tell the what you're going to be mainly using it for, and watch the reccomendations roll in.

 

[Jeff_rys]

nothing beats SCSI

certainly if the machine is used as a server, Scsi drives are a must.

There are Petium 4 out, running at 1700 mhz.
Maybe already faster now.

 

[peter8581]

stuff

Dr. E i can't even believe you put Macs up with SGI! PC's now days are light years ahead of MACs as far as hardware and OS goes. 1.4ghz athlons will step all over the fastest g4 in rendering and you can bet the dual athlons will destroy the dual g4's. All mac hardware is the same as PC hardware besides the processor.

It’s not like it was in the old days with macs.. back in the day they were great for graphics, but now they have just fell behind. There is nothing you can do on a mac that you can't do on a PC. PC hardware is just so far ahead of it now.

You would be surprised ... A lot of production houses send there animations out to a Intel render farms to render than SGI farms. 100 dual Intel boxes on an render farm network will render a lot faster than 20 sgi boxes.

The titanic was all rendered mostly on Intel Linux boxes