• Adobe After Effects

  Which workstation?

  Posted by Troy on July 15, 2005 at 3:13 am

  Hi there,

  I am currently looking at purchasing a workstation – the majority of my work is in After Effects & Photoshop (lets say 75%), the rest in 3DSmax – mainly for broadcast TV.

  I am looking at either the HP xw8200 or the Sun W2100z :

  The HP xw8200 specs : Dual 3.2GHz Xeon’s, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD + 2x250GB RAID 0 HDD’s (SATA’s), NVIDIA FX3400, Decklink Pro card.

  The Sun W2100z specs : Dual 2.2GHz Opteron’s, 2GB RAM, 73GB SCSI HDD + Internal RAID 3x300GB SATA, NVIDIA FX3000, Decklink Pro card.

  The prices are fairly similar for both, but it’s a fair investment! Any comments, recommendations, etc would be appreciated.

  I have heard the Opteron’s may have overheating issues???

  Thanks in advance,
  Troy

  Realethan replied 20 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Aharon Rabinowitz

  July 15, 2005 at 4:17 am

  I have dual opterons in my Boxx, and they do a good job. But there are 3 fans in there (plus another for the video card).

  Other than that, i don’t know what I can tell you.

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  Jeff Mullen

  July 15, 2005 at 5:33 am

  From experience I’ve had with other collegues, the dual xeon machine will do excellent. I haven’t actually been on an opteron system, so I’m not sure how it compares, but on a dual 2.0 xeon machine that I’ve used, it hauls and doesn’t crash too often.

  Those machines are so close in specs, its almost more of preference.

  Cheers!

  -jeff mullen
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  Realethan

  July 15, 2005 at 9:11 pm

  I just bought a new workstation BOXX technologies, and its really nice, here are the specs:

  Dual Opteron Model 275 (2x dual core processors)
  8GB DDR400 ECC (8 DIMMS)
  2x ATI FireGL V5000
  36GB 10,000rpm Serial ATA 8MB Cache System Drive + 120GB 7,200rpm Serial ATA 8MB Cache Storage Drive
  750GB RAIDCORE Serial ATA RAID 5 Array (4 drives)
  16x Dual Layer DVD

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