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

[chesty]

I certainly hope so. You would be surprised at some who think this is over kill, others who think it is not enough. Those who think it cannot be a server, those who think it is fine for a server. It almost makes me believe that no one really knows what they are talking about.

 

[WODIN]

I would say 85% of them are full of shit. LOL!!!

 

[JeetKuneDo]

u do know that by running a duel processor, u r not running at 2000ghz ... u r infact only running @ 1000 till its thruput is reached, then the other processor will b used, so this may b usefull for your graphix ... u may also wanna investigate changing to a SCSI system, the miss ratio on RIMMS is quite high, so page faults will b a problem, u can hide this with a low latency HD .. also u may wanna bump the cache on your processor to 1MB , and on your Graphix card, makes a huge diffrence.... other than dat, sounds like a well put together machine. Troulbe with buying from dell is they will charge u an amount such as 5k, but hey if u got the money everybodys happy!

 

[chesty]

Well, day to day apps are limited for an sg machine and at about 30k for the cheapest one, I think not. I have heard some good things about 3d studio max

 

[supersizeme]

max is cool, you should grab it if you can. takes a while to figure out if you have never used it before. it's good pretty good tutorials though.

 

[chesty]

I am not sure how much improvement I will get switching to scsi devices. I did that with my printer and didn't notice any difference in transfer rates. Tell me exactly how that will help, since the hardrive I have has the same rpm and stats (7200) as the scsi ones.


Yes, one of the problems I continually run into is that with a single processor when I would say enlarge a picture, my cpu would start cranking and my computer would become useless for about twenty minutes. I have an 800mghz machine now. That is one reason for the dual processors. I know alot about computers, but not near enough any help from Wodin or other knowledgeable people here (if they can all agree on what they talk about) would be appreciated so that I can fine tune this machine into a true mucle computer.

 

[JeetKuneDo]

the reason the Scsi will work is becuase it gives each device its own interface, so where as on a standard bus u will see each device using the same limited thruput on your bus, the scsi devices are independant of oneanother, and thus can communicate on a 1 to 1 basis, as apposed to using the same bus, going thru the motherboard. ... The ultrawide scsi is very good, altho u r looking at alot of money, try looking at the seagate cheeta, i think its around 15,000 rpm .... also u should look at the transfer rate and latency, as the rpm of rotional media is only 1 element of the equation.

 

[chesty]

Sounds good. I just got the hard drive that I did becasue it was inexpensive and it would give me time to do some research on better larger hard drives and such.

I will be looking this weekend at some devices.

 

[JUSTINCREDBOL]

I have a pIII 1gig with 512 ram and 32 video ram. Trust me when I say you should have gone with the PIV.
These are great systems but the bus limits it.
The new bus on the PIV makes processing run 50 percent faster.

 

[chesty]

Yes, but without dual processing my graphics and analysis still bogs the computer down when attempting to do other things during the processing. And the price is too expensive right now.