Budding designers PC spec

bigron10

bigron10

bigron10

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Hi,

I need to put together a PC for my girlfriend who is studying design at Uni as the current machine is struggling with the more intensive work. I've specced out the below and was just wanting your thoughts/advice on what I've gone with. I've already got a 7900GTX that i'll reuse along with an AC7 Freezer Pro.

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8000C5 1000MHz ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPX10004GK) £62.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS) £59.99

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £129.99

Pioneer DVR-115DBK 20x DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99

Asus P5K Premium/WiFi-AP Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £109.99

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £74.99

Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black) £78.99

She will be using stuff like Pro Engineer CAD package, Photoshop, Alias etc and doing lots of image rendering and the like.

What do you think?
 
Thanks for the responses,

I'll definitely have a look at the fireGL and Quadro cards although thats not a priority as we've been running on the 7900GTX for a while with little issue (the missus also wants a 2nd monitor....so more money).

Rendering times in Alias Imagestudio are very poor on our current machine so it's that I was looking to improve at the moment. I'm assuming that more cores + more RAM = faster rendering?
 
Thanks Ethics,

On the subject of gfx cards I've seen that certain ATI cards can be soft modded to make the fireGL.

Has anyone got any experience in doing this and if so what were the results like?

I'm specifically interested in the 2600XT as it can be had for £65 and apparently modded to a FireGL V5600. Would this be good enough for ProE, Alias ImageStudio etc?
 
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