I7 975 vs Xeon W5590

[shinooni]

Hey guys,
I am looking at building a high spec graphics development and gaming system (Crysis warhead and graphic dev = 3ds max 2009 and Bryce) and I was wondering which beats what (I have $10000 to burn on this computer) with Quad 5870 Crossfire X. And if anyone knows of a dual socket motherboard with Quad Crossfire X enabled please inform me because i am interested.

 

[mindless728]

tri-fire (last one on pci-e 2.0 x8, shouldn't harm much)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182176

holds 18 DDR3 dimms (144GB mem max)

 

[Zerk]

WOW that's a Monster!

And only $19.95 lol! or $450


Wait?

Would that sucker really work like a normal PC with Win 7 ect? playing Games ect?

 

[EXT64]

That thing is crazy. EATX?!? Supermicro is a good brand though.

 

[aznshinobi]

WTTTTFFFFFF THATS A CAR WITH THAT MONEY!!!!!!! You should just go with a norm 975.........
Anyway....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130225
I heard good things bout the Eclipse series, but aparently the newegg customers disagree... It runs 3 full 16x and 1 8x in quadfire sooo.... you should be good to go.

 

[aznshinobi]

or you could go with this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131390

 

[tortnotes]

Large numbers of Radeon cards aren't going to help your 3D work as much as a workstation GPU. More than 2 5870s on a server motherboard aren't going to help Crysis.
Don't waste your money... Or, if you're intent on wasting your money, buy a workstation AND a gaming machine. Not one for both.

Oh, and if you have a separate render farm, two CPUs is unnecessary... one top of the line i7 or Xeon will handle just about anything you could possibly throw at it. Only reason for 2 would be to improve render speeds.

 

[shinooni]

I already have a car thats worth 30000 anyway... but that eeatx mobo, that will do crossfire? cause my understanding of crossfire was that it had to have a crossfire chip on the board to allow for it. Also... with direct compute and (ahhh i forgot the other tech) that works with Radeon 5 series, I can create some sort of hack/plugin/workaround the be able to use the radeons in 3ds max. So I go back which would be better dual xeon or i7 and would the eeatx mobo do crossfire?

 

[cjl]

You would be better off with two computers, one for gaming and one as a workstation.