Hi All,
We are getting in 3 new workstations that I spec'd personally, as follows:
Dell T7500
Windows 7 64bit
(1) W5590 Quad 3.33GHz Nehalam EP
Hyperthreaded - Y
- Passmark 8,597, Rank #1
6.4GT/s FSB Turbo
12GB DDR3 RDIMM 1333MHz
Memory Bandwith 40GB/s+ (Theorectical)
(1) 1.0GB Nvidia Quadro FX3800
2nd Gen
Memory Interface 256-bit
51.2 GB/s
CUDA Cores 192
SLI
Triangles/Second 300 Million
Texel Fill Rate 38.0 Billion
(2) SATA 10k Drives
A killer machine that will take another processor and go SLI someday if I can go ever back to (2) monitors.
Or, I could stay where I'm at and angle for a Nehalam EX 2x8 core machine at some later date...16 little windows in Process Manager makes me happy just thinking about it. Here's where I am now:
Dell T7400
Windows 7 64bit
(2) X5460 Quad 3.16GHz Harpertown
Hyperthreaded - N
- Passmark 5,105, Rank #14
1330.0MHz FSB
20GB DDR2 FB-DIMM PC2-5300 667MHz
Memory Bandwith 12.8GB/s+
(2) 768MB Nvidia Quadro FX4600
1st GEN
Memory Interface 384-bit
67.2 GB/sec
CUDA Cores 112
SLI
Triangles/Second 250 Million
Texel Fill Rate 24.0 Billion
(2) SAS 15k Drives
If I only ran SW it would be a no-brainer, but I'm often in SW&3dMAX or 3dMAX&PS&AI at the same time plus Firefox open all day. So multiple cores are pretty key. My inclination is to get my hands on the Nehalam machine and swap my FX4600's and SAS drives into it. But the 2nd Gen Quadro is probably appreciably faster, the T7500 doesn't ship SLI capable anyway...more Dell strangeness.
Opinions?
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