Whats good dual motherboard ?

[JDex]

Ummmmm, do you need SCSI?

Do you need AGP?

PCI-Express?

Onboard Ethernet?
If so, how fast?
Gb?
100M?
10M?

USB?
Firewire?

RAID?
If so, what config...?
1?
0?
1+0?

What apps do you intend to run?

What kind of Case size do you want?

That should give us some info to help you.

Cheers

[PureFire]

I would recommend IWill. I got one for my dual xeon box...cant fault it yet.

[Kravit]

Well im not sure what all those specs mean since im not much of techinical guy
What i want to do is

Modeling in 3dsmax and zbrush, along with hardcore rendering
and just have medium tower

[Joel Hooks]

If you are gonna build it then you have some serious reading to do. I don't think JDex's list is very helpful at all, but his point is you leave out a lot of crucial details. If you aren't a technical guy then you either need a commercial turnkey solution (http://www.boxxtech.com), a friend that is, or you need to educate yourself and stop using ignorance as an excuse.

I suggest hitting http://www.2cpu.com and spend a few hours reading.

[abie1]

If you aren't a technical guy then you either need a commercial turnkey solution (http://www.boxxtech.com/), a friend that is, or you need to educate yourself and stop using ignorance as an excuse.

I suggest hitting http://www.2cpu.com (http://www.2cpu.com/) and spend a few hours reading.
Dude, that's pretty darn harsh man. I think he was just looking for some help and you probably just totally discouraged him from ever posting a question like that here again. I think the whole point of this stuff is to get help from those who know, not getting kicked to the curb b/c you you don't know as much as the next guy. He already said he wasn't technical; if he were, he wouldn't have posted the question.

[Joel Hooks]

I didn't mean ignorance (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oi=defmore&q=define:ignorance) as an insult. Obviously he is technical enough to understand these concepts, or he wouldn't be here.

If you don't want to spend the time to learn a bit about hardware, then a turnkey solution is the answer. Otherwise a lot of research and learning is in order to learn about the subject.

[lots]

I agree, if you know enough about computers, but just dont have the know how (or want to know it) of assembling a system on your own, then its probably best to go with someone like Boxx. I mean this way you can let them do all the work.. the building.. etc and you just choose some of the more basic parts (CPU preference, or Video card). Then a few days later you get ur box in the mail. Thats pretty easy, and a good solution for the non hardware savvy who either dont have time to do the research, or dont have the desire to know. Not putting anyone down that doesnt know a lick about hardware.. it just probably doesnt interest them and would rather spend time on other things. Plus if something breaks, you have someone to go to to fix it. If you build it your self, you need to know how to fix it your self. And in an environment where time is critical for a project, that is not going to help things if you dont know how to get it fixed quickly, at least with a company covering the machine you can probably get it trouble shot or replacement parts in a timely manner (idealy anyway .. sure there are plenty of exceptions ;))

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