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Hello,


I have one customer and he want to buy an workstation for 3d stuff and some photoshops, etc and he want 2 setup one for 5000usd and another one is 1000usd and im not sure if i recommend him for quadro or normal geforce gpu?


What is your recommendation? I want him to be satisfied with our setup
 
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For AutoCad, you want a Quadro gfx card, probably a K600 for a PC in that price bracket. CPU, go for the best i7 you can afford.

The pricier workstation you'll also want a Quadro, probably the K4000, but your real priority will be in getting the max CPU power for rendering from 3DSmax. For that you want a dual Xeon setup of 8, 10, or 12 core Xeons, depending on what you can get for that budget (sorry, I work in £GBP so I can't be more specific). If there's a trade off, reduce the Quadro card to the K2000 or the K600 in order to get the max CPU power.

Hard drives - for both machines make sure to go for an SSD system drive, then a large fast regular HD (a 2Gb Caviar Black for example) as a storage / projects drive - this is because...
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1000usd for workstation if going to be tough. the nvidia titan can do most workstation stuff quite well. knowing what 3d programs he is using would be useful so you can see if that program offers gpu acceleration from either a geforce or a radeon. for the $5000 one a titan or titan black would be ideal and many programs will work the titan. but for $1000, an amd 7970/280x is really the only option as long as the program used offers a 3rd party app that will allow the radeon to accelerate it.
 
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Find out what 3D software he will be using, and whether he uses the 3D functionality in Photoshop, and how much rendering you client does.

You will get far more power for you money with GeForce cards.

But Quadro cards make up for this by having drivers optimised for many software applications that dramatically improve performance. Also the Quadro cards are intended to survive being used at 100% load, 100% of the time (so they're safer if they'll be rendering every night etc). The Quadro cards also have 10bit colour, which will be important for clients doing Colour Correcting, etc, using Resolve, Speedgrade etc. For these reasons, Quadro cards are commonly specced for pro apps.

But if you can do without the pro features, a GeForce will save big cash... :)

Also consider the ATI options - the FirePro cards etc...
 
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I just received an update from the customer.

the normal work station will cost around 1350USD for AutoCad, PHotoshop.
the 5000USD Workstation mainly for 3DMAX ( i assume 3D rendering).


what do i recommend to my customer?
 
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For AutoCad, you want a Quadro gfx card, probably a K600 for a PC in that price bracket. CPU, go for the best i7 you can afford.

The pricier workstation you'll also want a Quadro, probably the K4000, but your real priority will be in getting the max CPU power for rendering from 3DSmax. For that you want a dual Xeon setup of 8, 10, or 12 core Xeons, depending on what you can get for that budget (sorry, I work in £GBP so I can't be more specific). If there's a trade off, reduce the Quadro card to the K2000 or the K600 in order to get the max CPU power.

Hard drives - for both machines make sure to go for an SSD system drive, then a large fast regular HD (a 2Gb Caviar Black for example) as a storage / projects drive - this is because 3DSmax etc are massive, slow loading programs, so the SSD really is essential.

OS - Win 7 64bit Pro

For example of PCs along the lines of that which I've described above, have a look at Boxx, Workstation Specialist, Armari, and of course the HP Z series

Hope that helps
 
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