What's he using for his rendering program?
If this is a program that can take advantage of the superior math capabilities of the Opteron, then he should definitely go for an Opteron-based (Athlon-64) system.
Depending on these images, and the way they're rendered, he may not gain that much from a super-highend video card, but perhaps this person has
computer experts in the field that know these things.
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
I have a client who is migrating from an SGI to Linux. He does a LOT of 3D rendering from thousands of stacks of images. I plan to propose at least two configurations - a desktop configuration from an integrator, such as Dell, and one using COTS parts.
What recommendations would you suggest for RAM, CPU, video card, and Linux distro? He is also a heavy OS X user but has a need for a souped-up Linux box. Budget is not an issue.
I will do my own research, too, and see where suggestions from this list, along with my own research, lead.
Thanks!
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