Workstations For Poor 3D-artists 240
Peter writes: "Ace's hardware has written an 'article for the creative people, who are searching to build or buy an affordable number cruncher to run their favorite workstation application. Maybe you already have an Athlon Thunderbird/XP and you are wondering if a dual Thunderbird/Athlon XP workstation might make sense for you. Or you might be interested in an affordable dual Athlon MP 1800+ workstation.' Included are benchmarks based on almost all available 3D-animation packages."
You are talking about affordable ... (Score:4, Funny)
We're not gonna copy those tools illegaly now are we ?
And btw, 3D studio 4 (the dos version) has a lot of possibilities and renders nearly real-time on an athlon 700
I'm serious (Score:3, Funny)
'Poor' graphic artists (Score:1, Funny)
That's not fair! (Score:2, Funny)
For shame - what's left to argue when everything is "statistics" and "valid reasoning"?
Re:My advice... SMP NOT wirth it! (Score:4, Funny)
povray renders 67% increase.
BMRT renders get a whopping $75% increase.
Heck I get a 50% speed increase on compiling anything on my lowly PIII850 SMP box. (I know I should trash it, it's almost 8 months old now.)
I see major increases by going SMP, but then I do things that take advantage of both processors. (BTW, make -j2 will speed things up nicely
Re:cheap to say the least (Score:1, Funny)
Heh-heh. RAID array = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks array.