Hello Tom's Hardware community,
I am wondering when creating a 3D computer why most company pre build machines go the Server board rout over a stander ed motherboard for there end users. I had a friend from school build my first 3D Rig as I work with Adobe Suit CS4 / ZBrush / 3DS Max for my 3d modeling pipeline. Now I am wondering why my friend picked a server board over a slandered mother board.
I am running the Nvidia 8800 GTS and figured if I poped in a 8500 I get another two screens to help improve my desk space sense I like to have allot of things open at once for quick reference use. Though I found that my machine occasionally stutters sense I did this I am thinking its either the port speed thats causeing the trouble or server boards don't no how to handle two graphic cards.
The 8800 GTS is in the PCI-E x8 slot and the 8500 is in the PCI-E x16 slot. I know what your thinking right now. Why dose he have the more powerful graphics card in the slower slot? Because the graphic cards wont fit any other way as the genius that designed the 8500 shoved a bolt on the back that makes it ware you can not set it up the other way around. Ya for beast size of the 8800 GTS. Any who I am trying to trouble shoot that now for the past few weeks.
Here is the link to my board: Supermicro X7DA8
Motherboard Site: http://www.pugetsystems.com/part_info.php?part=4033
OS: Windows Vista 64-bit
Thanks for the heads up in advance!
I am wondering when creating a 3D computer why most company pre build machines go the Server board rout over a stander ed motherboard for there end users. I had a friend from school build my first 3D Rig as I work with Adobe Suit CS4 / ZBrush / 3DS Max for my 3d modeling pipeline. Now I am wondering why my friend picked a server board over a slandered mother board.
I am running the Nvidia 8800 GTS and figured if I poped in a 8500 I get another two screens to help improve my desk space sense I like to have allot of things open at once for quick reference use. Though I found that my machine occasionally stutters sense I did this I am thinking its either the port speed thats causeing the trouble or server boards don't no how to handle two graphic cards.
The 8800 GTS is in the PCI-E x8 slot and the 8500 is in the PCI-E x16 slot. I know what your thinking right now. Why dose he have the more powerful graphics card in the slower slot? Because the graphic cards wont fit any other way as the genius that designed the 8500 shoved a bolt on the back that makes it ware you can not set it up the other way around. Ya for beast size of the 8800 GTS. Any who I am trying to trouble shoot that now for the past few weeks.
Here is the link to my board: Supermicro X7DA8
Motherboard Site: http://www.pugetsystems.com/part_info.php?part=4033
OS: Windows Vista 64-bit
Thanks for the heads up in advance!