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Workstations For Poor 3D-artists

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the budget-3d-baby dept.

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."

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  1. You are talking about affordable ... by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 4, Funny

    You probably haven't checked the price of those 3d tools lately ... the only one in my pricerange is povray ...

    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 ... ;-)

  2. I'm serious by nomadic · · Score: 3, Funny

    When I first read "workstations for poor 3-d artists" I thought great, finally a computer that recognizes my artistic shortcomings...

  3. 'Poor' graphic artists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Shouldn't they be more concerned with becoming 'Good' graphic artists instead of advertising the fact that they are 'Poor' graphic artists?

  4. That's not fair! by JMZero · · Score: 2, Funny

    How dare you bring facts into this - even going so far as to suggest others do the same!

    For shame - what's left to argue when everything is "statistics" and "valid reasoning"?

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    Let's not stir that bag of worms...
  5. Re:My advice... SMP NOT wirth it! by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Funny

    wow you dont do much in computing power then do you.

    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 :-)

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    Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
  6. Re:cheap to say the least by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    You're probably more likely to have an entire RAID array fail.

    Heh-heh. RAID array = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks array.