Graphics Experts

Ok I'm helping my gf with her home work assignment. Your guy's assignment is to design the baddest ass graphics machine you can make. Oh and someone throw a mac in there. Here is the assignment

That's how she worded it, mispellings and all. I think she's a dumbass personally but lets get to it. Suggestions ideas. Also she wants you to list out
Company Name
System Name
Clock speed
Primary storage size
type/speed
Secondary storage size
type/speed
Video Card
USB ports (number)
Monitor
Type
Size of Screen
Sound
Other Drives
CD
DVD
System Software
Profesional?
Application software
1
2
3
4
Service Contract
Additional components
Component/Price
Component/price
component/price
Other
System total Cost

Rate the system




And that's about it. Thanks to all who want to post and help out.

<b>Agent</b> <b><font color=green>81</b></font color=green> <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Yahiko81 on 08/23/02 06:21 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Here's a tricked out system

<pre>@Xi® Computer Corp.
980 Negocio, San Clemente, CA 92673.
Tel: 800-432-0486, (949)498-0858 Fax: (949)492-6571, (949)498-1611

QUOTATION#: 27582- WEB Date: 8/23/02
US
New Intel® Xeon™ to 2.40 GHz Dual CPU's, Hyper-Threading to 2GB RDRAM!
Xi Computers won: 1998 BYTEBest, 1992-2001 CADalyst HR, 2000 PC-WORLD BestBuy, C-NET & ZD-NET EDITOR CHOICE
Xi® 4800/3600X MTower™ DPR Base Price: $1,699.00

- Base Configuration including:
- One Intel® Xeon™ Processor 1.80GHz - L2 Advanced Transfer Cache 512KB - 400MHz System Bus, Intel® NetBurst™ & Hyper-Threading - Dual Independent.High Speed BUS Intel® 860 chipset - Two Intel® Xeon™ Processor Sockets upgradeable to 2.40 GHz - 2MB AMI/AWARD Flash BIOS DMI2.01 - 4 Banks RAMBUS® Dual Ch., 128MB 800MHz 2 RIMMs exp. To 2GB - nVidia TNT2 32MB RAM 3D Video Board AGP-4 - 4PCI+2PCI-64 Slots,1AGP PRO - 20 GB Hard Drive 5400RPM 9.5ms Ultra ATA - LAN Intel® 82559 10/100 - 1.44MB, 3 1/2" Floppy drive - Logitech "2+Wheel" w/Xi Mouse pad - 104 key Win98 keyboard - 14" Opti. Viewsonic® Monitor .28dp PnP 1024x768NI Microp. - 2 Serial 16550, 1 EPP/ECP Parallel Port - 2 USB Pin Conn. - ACP/PC98 - Xi® MTower w/5 bays, 3 exposed, 400W UL Dual Coolant - Dimensions: (L x W x H) 17.25" x 7.5" x 19.5" - B.B.Fan Heatsink CPU (5 Fans Total) - PC Health Monitoring - Red Hat® Linux 7.x CD-ROM w/manuals or optional Microsoft® Windows® products





l Xi MTower Xeon (Base Configuration) $1,699.00
Upgrades And Options:

l Dual Intel® Xeon(tm) 2.60 GHz 512KB ATC L2 Cache $1,399.00
l 4096MB DDR ECC Reg. PC2100 266MHz. $1,997.00
l nVidia® Quadro 4 NV25GL 900XGL 128MB DDR AGP-4 Dual Head $951.00
l No Monitor ($100.00)
l 36GB 15000U3SCSI-160+MB29160 Adptec* $701.00
l Optional 36GB 15000U3SCSI-160 $420.00
l Upg. First SCSI HD w/Adaptec 3200S Dual Ch. RAID 32MBC $682.00
l RAIDMode O RAID (IDE or SCSI RAID Ctrl. Required, performance mult drive) $0.00
l CD-ROM 52x Speed ATAPI* $0.00
l CreativeLab Audigy 5.1 3DWave Table with FireWire port $76.00
l Creative® Lab Inspire 5300 5.1 Dolby® Digital 5P+ SubW $90.00
l LAN Intel® 82559 10/100* $0.00
l Standard 104 Key Windows Keyboard Beige $0.00
l Logitech® MouseMan Dual Optical $35.00
l Windows XP PRO Workstation CD-ROM w/manuals/act.reg.** $99.00
l Total of 3 Years System HW Warranty P&L. FOB Xi $99.00
l Xi Blue & Black Tower 400W UL PS $0.00
l Optional 36GB 15000U3SCSI-160 $420.00
l Optional 36GB 15000U3SCSI-160 $420.00


Sub Total:
$8,988.00


Less Discount [0%]:
$8,988.00


CA Sales Tax: $0.00


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$8,988.00


Quantity: 1

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$8,988.00




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Warranty: System Hardware: ONE YEAR Parts & Labor FOB Xi, with Xi Express Replacement Parts shipping. Monitors & special order parts have 3 years mfg. warranty only. FOR SOFTWARE, THE SALE IS FINAL (Win98/ME/Linux @ $ 139.00 added to upgrade SW price like 2000 PRO/XP PRO & dual boot configurations.) SOFTWARE WARRANTY IS FROM MANUFACTURER ONLY. First 30 days free tech support from Xi. 30 days money back guarantee does not include: Software (Win98/ME @ $ 139.00), Shipping & special order items. Change of orders carry a $ 20.00 charge each. Full detailed Xi warranty information is published in Xi Computer's website: www.xicomputer.com and is included with every system. Do not destroy packaging equipment at least up to the warranty period

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My frog asked me for a straw...dunno what happened his ass all over the place

This is easy. Gimme a second.

If my baby don't love me, I know, I know, her sister will.

sorry, but wtf wrote that assignment/list? rofl! wireless kb/mouse eh? anyone that does design work for a living knows wireless is the last thing to get into, they're not as precise as "wired" mice. for straight graphic design, i'd take a matrox card any day over a geforce, much better quality. at least 4usb ports? hmm, again, serious creatives will have a scsi scanner, know that most times the good ole printer port works MUCH better than usb or they have a firewire plotter. consider the speed of the cd drive for what? you're doing design work, not playing games, what's a dvd drive going to do better than a cdrom? and for displays, 2 apple 23" cinema displays would do quite nicely.

If you're looking for something a little less overwhelming, maybe the <A HREF="http://www.sgi.com/workstations/octane2/" target="_new">SGI Octane2</A> might be better.

If my baby don't love me, I know, I know, her sister will.

Erm, actually, screw that f220 display thing. Hook that Onyx 3800 bad boy up to one of <A HREF="http://www.sgi.com/realitycenter/" target="_new">these puppies</A>

If my baby don't love me, I know, I know, her sister will.

So it's decided then... reality center.

If my baby don't love me, I know, I know, her sister will.

The only thing I would ever suffer myself to touch a mac, would be to toss it into the fires of mt.Doom! that is it!
The mac principal: "Design a system that any fool could use, but one that only a fool would use." Please never again suggest such evil things, now onto the task at hand, I would suggest a quadro 4 for graphics, they are reletivly cheap and easy to find, but i have heard good things about those wildcats, for graphics get all the ram you can shove into the machine, 2-3gb could make a difference, you said biggest and baddest but you could definatly be able to own with 768mb to 1gb, still more is better. you could go dual processor if neccessary but a single cpu would do you realy almost the same, though photoshop can use 2 procs, you could go single amd xp 2200 or wait for the 2600's or you could go mp's. so much depends on what she wants. People never mean it when they say cost isnt an issue, so I figure an xp 2200 with a quadro 4 and 1gb of pc2700ddr on an soyo dragon platinum mobo, that should be as bad ass as she needs

Life (n). A sexually transmitted disease which afflicts some people more severly than others.

I'm kinda confused here. The assignment says you are a graphic arts major (to me that means some college artsie). It also says you are getting it to do your homework assignments (this suggests a decent budget). If it's just graphic arts, my XP1800+ at 1.67 GHz with 512 MB ram and GF2 GTS does fine for me in 3dsmax, photoshop, and now maya.

If I was to upgrade, I'd first get another 512 MB ram, then I'd go for a dual system (rendering is soooooooo slow, especially with raytraced materials). After that, I'd get a better video card (the GF2 is fine for me really).

This sort of leads me to believe that a system like mine would suffice. THEN, it says to go out and get 4 GB of ram. This suggest some kind of crazy super high polygon 3d work (not graphic arts major stuff). I'm kinda confused.

I still think my suggestion wins hands down (in the no budget category that is hehe).

If my baby don't love me, I know, I know, her sister will.

I think Flamethrower's post with pre tags is causing it.

My watercooler contains so much water that the moon has influence upon it .

Whatever... but it tends to piss off people.

My watercooler contains so much water that the moon has influence upon it .

Either way...

If my baby don't love me, I know, I know, her sister will.