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Which workstation?
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,
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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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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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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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