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Hello everyone! I hope someone can give me some insight here...

I'm replacing my old workstation, and planning to do a real upgrade. I'm gonna need lots of processing power and memory. What I don't need is networking, fancy graphics and so on. Just a graphics card to connect two displays.

Would I benefit a lot if I went with a dual xeon(quad) server motherboard, or should I stick to a single quad on a newer 1366 card?

-tollak-

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Do you have a budget for your new workstation?

What are you upgrading from - and does your software use multiple cores efficiently?
It would be a real kick in the pants to find out your new dual CPU, 8 core, 16 thread, 16GB RAM workstation PC runs slower than a FAST dual core desktop 'cause the software isn't multi-threaded.

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You can get Xeon socket 1366 CPUs and motherboards now. 8 cpu cores and 16 threads on a workstation.

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Thanks a lot for your answer! Turns out I have to go with a 32bit-system as Vista supposedly sucks on audio workstations.
This looks like a serious solution to me. And indeed a lot cheaper than I expected! But hey... I feel like a rookie here, so I could be way off for all I know!

1x Asus P5E64 WS EVOLUTION, X48, DDR3, Socket-775, ATX, 4xPCI-Ex(2.0)x16
1x Intel Xeon™ X3360 2,83GHz, Socket 775, 12MB, 1333MHz, Boxed w/Fan
2x Corsair XMS3 DHX DDR3 1600MHz 2GB CL9 Kit w/2x 1GB XMS3 modules, CL9-9-9-24
1x Chieftec 19" 4U UNC-410F-B-500, 500W ATX/EPS PSU
1x HIS Radeon HD 4650 512MB DDR2 iSilence 4 PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI, HDMI, HDCP, Heatpipe
1x BenQ 22" LCD E2200HD TCO03 1920x1080, 1000:1, 2ms, VGA/DVI/HDMI
3x Nexus SFM-1000 Soft Fan Mounts
3x NorthQ Silent Tornado 92mm Fan, Red Light, Black Alu Frame, 15db, 27,45CFM

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What price would you pay for that MB, CPU and RAM combo?

What price could get you Asus P6T X-58 MB / Core 17 920 CPU / and 3 GB of DDR3 PC3 1333 RAM?

You're choosing a rack mount case, but yet you're ordering soft fan mounts and fans with red lights? Whats the story there?

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Tollak wrote :

Turns out I have to go with a 32bit-system as Vista supposedly sucks on audio workstations.

Did you get this from a source you trust? Im suspicious it might not be accurate, or possibly, just out of date.

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WR2 wrote :

Did you get this from a source you trust? Im suspicious it might not be accurate, or possibly, just out of date.

Does seem funny esp. after SP1 for Vista came out.

Personally I'd be looking at Vista 64 as long as the audio editing software also supported 64-bit, on at least 6GB of memory.

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^ memory is cheeeep these dayz, I can't see why he would not upgrade

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