Recent content by Knox Gelatin

I don't know anything about how antivirus programs work, but is there any chance scanning a solid state drive will write information on the drive? I'm thinking about getting a new SSD, but I want to know if installing Ad-aware will have any negative side effects. Thanks in advance.

Performance vs. Reliability is your own personal preferance. As for Windows 7, I'd put that on the WD1002FAEX so you can RAID your identical drives.

I'm not a gamer, so I could be wrong, but... I'm pretty sure most games won't take advantage of a hexacore processor. Get an SSD.

If you're going to gradually build your system, start out with a mobo that can support all the features you want. ASUS has some good workstation motherboards. And you're right. You do need a good processor for rendering.

I just checked out Eurocom. Expensive, but you get what you pay for, I guess.

Thanks! I had already seem the Xtremenotebooks, but the Eurocom is new. I'll check that out.

Hey guys. I'm looking into buying a laptop and was wondering if there are any that have intel xeon processors as an option? If there aren't, what are some other good options? Thanks in advance.

for mental ray: More Threads = Better performance

Cool. What kinds SSDs are you guys using? Any recommendations?

Thanks for the responses. What would be the lifetime for a drive performing this function?

If you're using CS5, I'd recommend RAM. And lots of it. Get at least 8 GB. And if you want to spend $300 on a motherboard, get one with dual processor support.

If I had $4000? Probably dual X5680's Throw in a high end Quadro card and more RAM than I could ever probably use. And while I'm at it, maybe a couple of new SSDs.

Cool. Thanks

Sweet setup! I would take a look at the Nvidia Quadro line of graphics cards. The only other practical thing to do would be maxing out your memory. (32GB for the 490) Is this for CAD?

Buy a used computer. Take the money you save and get high speed internet.