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Workstations For Poor 3D-artists
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."
Cheap things are good!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I'm putting together my list for a 3D workstation/renderer and occasional game playing (but not the Quake variety, think Scorch15 or whatever that really cool EGA risk-type game was years ago (if anyone know what this was and where to find it I'd be in your debt, maybe even order you a pizza delivery if you find the right one))
Leaning toward Athlon MP, 1 processor at first, then add second later. Primary OS will be some flavor of Linux. Shopping list will include:
SCSI drives, CD burner
DVD burner (when prices gets down there)
Pile o' memory
19" monitor
Gyro mouse (providing there's a linux driver for it, if not looking for another wireless mouse)
Decent video card, not necessarily the Game type, but professional graphics quality
Powersupply, case, keyboard, etc.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
What you say is true, if you happen to have a work visa good for the early 1990s.
What were you expecting?
The nvidia drivers on OSX are absolutely _STUNNING!_
I have a Mac with an ATI Rage-128 somethingorother and a GeForce 2 MX board. The GeForce 2 MX _blows away_ everything else!