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Building A High End Quadro FX Workstation

Posted by Hemos on from the making-it-faster-and-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes "FiringSquad has an article detailing some of the differences between building a high-end workstation and a high-end gaming system. They go into things like ECC memory, and the difference between professional and gaming 3D cards. The Quadro FX 2000 coverage is particularly interesting -- the system with the Quadro FX 2000 was never louder than 55 dB!"

2 of 89 comments (clear)

  1. Biased? by Gheesh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article carefully explains the choices made. However, we find the following line at the end of it:

    Special thanks to AMD, NVIDIA, TYAN, and Ryan Ku at Rage3D.com for helping me with this project.

    Well, maybe they had no influence at all, but then how come that most of the chosen products match this 'special thanks' line?

  2. Well written, but weak article by zaqattack911 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think he starts off well talking about the decision making process, the move over x86, what ECC means.

    However, he pretty much dumps his chosen hardware in our laps by the end of the article without much explanation. It feels rushed almost.

    There is way more out there than Tyan, who cares what google uses. What about dual channel DDR? What about the fact that Xeons and newer P4s have HyperThreading?

    He starts slow, then in a few paragraphs blurts out some mystery hardware he decided to go with. Then babbled about Geforce VS Quadro for the rest of the article.

    Oh well, he's a good writer. Better luck next time.