Work Computer Upgrade Advice

richie_C · 5 Sep 2011 at 19:59

I work for a 3D POS design company and my and the other two 3D guys use PC's are we want to upgrade them all. Ive been set the task of specing and building the new rigs. The building part im fine with Ive build many PC's what Is like to know is whats the best hardware out there for say the price of £1000 per machine.

We currently use dell PC's which have:

Intel Xeon E5410 2.33GHz
Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 256MB
4GB DDR 2 RAM
500GB SATA System Drive.

Now ive looked on the Dell website and the price of their Xeon rigs seems a bit OTT.

The main bulk of work for the rig will be rendering at large resolution like 2400x3200 and some Photoshop work.

What kind of spec could I get that betters the one above for £1000 or more if needs be.

Many Thanks,

Rich

richie_C · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:09

Thanks Gregry. I look forward to Stulid's reply.

Ive been looking at Core i7 with 12GB RAM (Triple Channel) and a 6950.

Things like case and dvd drive dont need to be priced as we can use them from the current machines.

richie_C · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:29

We use 3D Studio Max and that works with any card. Ive been using it on my home rig for many years.

So would you say core i5 or i7?

8/12/16 GB RAM?

richie_C · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:32

This even seems like a big upgrade from the current gfx im using in my work machine which is a quadro.

http://www.******.com/247163-pny-nvidia-quadro-600-vcq600-pb

richie_C · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:39

Oh my bad. I was just referencing the card, not the actual price. Wont happen again.

richie_C · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:58

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £239.99
MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 £215.99
OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive £139.99
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI £61.78
Fractal Design Define R3 Midi Tower Case £79.99
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz x 2 £99.98
Zalman CNPS10X Extreme CPU Cooler £42.89
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter £16.99

£1014.08

Thats what I priced up off the top off my head. The graphics card will probably change for a work station GFX Card of a similar price and there are 1 or 2 Fire Pros in that price range along with a Quadro.

We only need a system drive as all work is hosted and backed up onto a server

richie_C · 5 Sep 2011 at 21:26

Quixote thanks. Ive amended the rig replacing the OCZ SSD with the Cruical SSD and putting in an Nvidia GTX 560i and putting the Antec PSU back in. Total Price £988