looking to upgrade my pc in january,already using ms server 2003, main purpose for upgrade is rendering animations maya 8/lightwave 9, so a lot of maths/physics going on, costed it around £1100/$1500 for msi 771 board and 2 x quad core zeon's. does any user agree with this or have a rendering option better than this,any advice greatly appreciated, there will be little games use,but still need basic desktop functions. thanks
How much the xeons will contribute to your rendering I dont entirely know but seeing as the quad-cores will cost a bomb Id maybe save the cash and spend it on a higher end graphics card than otherwise. Dual quad-cores.... things aren't half getting complex now!
i've got a ati 512mb x700 pci-e card will this be enough ? or do u suggest duel sli/ati crossfire card..?
I suggest looking at a FireGL (ATI) or a QUaddro (nVidia) card as they're designed for rendering and graphics, they cost a bomb but for rendering they're the best.
