+1 I am using a Precision T5500 (purchased 04/2010), and is a very stable machine.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Diogo Girondi <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Randy, > > I don't know about their other computers or how things are now regarding > DELL, but their Precision line of workstations use to be built like tanks > and were really reliable. I had an old model (2006) Precision with Dual > Xeons at home and that thing never led me down, it lasted a good six years > and only ceased to function properly because I use to live close to the > beach and electronics aren't very fond of sea breeze. > > So by my experience with them I would say that they are great boxes. > > And I've also seen people hackintosh them without much trouble. > > > Cheers, > Diogo > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Randy Little <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I can get a pretty crazy discount on Dell Workstations. Enough that it >> seems cheaper to buy a Dell then to build a box. IF I get dual Xeon it >> has 4 full speed x16 pci-3 3.0 slots which is nice for the color grading I >> do Maxwell, and the crazy RAM amount is good for Nuke when I work from >> home. Any way >> Has anyone used these boxes? Are they reliable enough for a home >> workstation? I wouldn't think about dell for anything but their ultra >> sharps but I still get an employee discount from one of my previous >> employers which is pretty substantial. >> >> Then I would think 2 -3 gamer cards for Nvidia probably for openCL and >> Cuda. >> >> and I am pretty sure it can be a hackintosh as well as Windows and Linux. >> >> >> Any thoughts? >> thanks to anyone who has opinion. >> >> Randy S. Little >> http://www.rslittle.com/ >> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325729/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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