Is this setup worth the price?

[Randybob]

Motherboard : P4 S775 P5N32-E Sli
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 S775
Ram Kingston 667Mhz DDr2 Ecc 2048Mb
Case : Antec Sonata 2
Hd : 2*250Gig Western Digital 7200 16mb wd2500ks
Video Card : Pny Pcie Quadro Fx 1500 256mb

2100$ Canadian

I'm a 3d artist now working with 3ds Max but gonna look to learn maya and zbrush really soon.
Using photoshop to. If you have better ideas with this budget of lower this would be great! And if you see some hardware that dont fit together i'm all ear cuz i'm not a technician hehe! but i went on tom's hardware and all this stuff looked to be good!
The Quadro FX 1500 does not support SLI, so I don't see why you'd be getting an SLI motherboard with it.

[BoubQC]

Yeah thanks for the advise i'm looking at all this stuff at the same time and i'm getting lost a bit...sli is when you want two have 2 video cards i think...so you gonna tell me if you dont buy 2 video cards look for another motherboard!? I looked for the Asus GF7950Gt to...

[Randybob]

SLI is when two graphics cards (that support it) join forces to become one super-graphics card. SLI with two Geforces does NOT support dual monitors. SLI with two Quadros is advertised to, but who has the money for that. ATI has a competing technology called Crossfire with the same limitations, though their FireGL line doesn't support it at all.

The SLI motherboard you are looking at costs a pretty penny, and if you go with a P965-based motherboard, you'll save a hundred dollars.

[Clondike7]

I agree with what these guys say. I recommend switching ur motherboard to something like a Gigabyte 965P-DS3 or DQ6. They can be found for ~$130+, and you can take the money you save and get some DDR2-800 RAM, which is pretty much the standard and not much more expensive than DDR2-667 :bounce:

[Fede]

I have an Nvidia 780 GTS SLI notebook which i bought because i thought the performance was going to be sooooo much better, but quite honestly i don't see the difference.

Correct me if i'm wrong but SLI doesn't make any difference to 3d animation, more to games IF they support it.

[lots]

That seems to be the case, but Boxx Tech has a few benchmarks with SLI'd Quadros that say otherwise (or so I hear :))

This probably means that the quadro drivers have some options enabled that really make those SLI'd Quadros zip along...

[Layer01]

SLI with two Geforces does NOT support dual monitors.

WOAH! really!? :eek:
wow, thats retarded.

so one card with two outputs can do it but two cards with 4 outputs can't even manage 2? i would have thought you could have one monitor plugged into each card.
well thanks for the heads up, i wasn't planning on getting sli (doesn't affect 3d aps etc etc) but now i'm %100 sure i wont get sli.

[BoubQC]

After some revisions I've come to this...

Motherboard : P4 S775 ASUS P5B-E GREEN 965P PCIE
Processor : INTEL CORE 2 DUO E6400 2.13G/1066/2M/S775
Memory : KINGSTON KVR 667MHZ DDR2 NO-ECC 2048MB KIT
Hard Drive : 2x SATA2 250.0 SEAGATE 7200.10 16M ST3250620AS
Case : CASE ATX ANTEC Nine Hundred Black
Video Card : BFG PCIE GF7 7950GT OC 512M BOX 7950GT
Power Supply : 400w Aliment Atx Enermax Liberty 20/24Pin


Here's my question the ... of power supply and the case...I cheked for the Antec Sonata 2...450W. and the saler said not enough power but he put me another case same price as the sonata and a power supply of 400W...WTH...Anybody can light my path please...

[lots]

WOAH! really!? :eek:
wow, thats retarded.

so one card with two outputs can do it but two cards with 4 outputs can't even manage 2? i would have thought you could have one monitor plugged into each card.
well thanks for the heads up, i wasn't planning on getting sli (doesn't affect 3d aps etc etc) but now i'm %100 sure i wont get sli.

Its not really retarded if you think about what SLI actually is. The tech is supposed to combine the output of two (or more) cards to ONE display. Seems a bit dumb to me to SLI two cards to just turn around and run two displays (the work would get split in half, and thus each card runs one display anyway) In other words you could run the two displays off each card with SLI off and get the same result, with fewer driver conflicts :)

Anyway having said that, I believe that SLI'd Quadros DO support dual displays.



As for the system above, looks good. I'd go for a Seasonic PSU around 400 to 500 W should be plenty. Honestly you could probably get by on less wattage. So long as a good brand PSU is used, it shouldn't be a problem.

I'd go for Seasonic first. Then maybe Silverstone then Enermax or Antec. IF you have tons of cash and the dealer has them, a PC Power and Cooling would be the best choice :)

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