Rob and Doug Thanks again - more good into but I am starting to get a bit lost when it comes to RAIDs stripes and mirrors - wikipedia helped me out a little but as you can tell I am pretty dense on this stuff.
I have to work within the Universities workstation platform so can't custom build any old thing. So CPU's options start with Pentium Dual 2.6 GHz 2MB cache, then Core 2 Duo processor 2.8 with 3MB cache, then move into the Quad systems. I take it then that a Duo would be ok 4GB RAM is allowed Hard drives specified are Seagate SATA 3G units of varying sizes with varying sized caches. There are a variety of graphics cards offered from the base Intel Dual DVI controller to ASUS and PNY Quadro cards with a whole lot of acronyms I don't understand. If I get two of the Dell 22" Monitors I found yesterday - what do I need to look for in the card?> No mention of including a RAID scheme in the specs Sorry for being uninformed on all this stuff! Alastair On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Rob Studdert<distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/08/2009, Alastair Robertson <kiwibiolog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> thanks for the great info re a suitable monitor(s) for the >> workstation. Now, how about the CPU, RAM, graphics card etc? I am >> sure that bigger, faster etc is always better but what makes a >> sensible tradeoff between features and price? > > Some of the just past Intel Core 2 Duo processors seem to be the best > price point, great value really, 4GB of RAM can be had for peanuts and > will allow the PC to handle even big composite imaging tasks. Go for a > large fast drive for your OS (even if you don't use much of it) and > add a stripe set using two fast drive for scratch/temp operations. If > you're a thrill seeker and are prepared to do a little work "ghosting" > your OS to an external drive you could load up the OS on a stripe set, > it really does make a huge performance increase (with the downside of > making the system half as reliable). > > Cheers, > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
