2x 3.2GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
32GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
Mac Pro RAID Card
300GB 15000RPM SAS
3x 1TB HD
Nvidia Quatro FX 5600 1.5GB
Total: $18,649
What would a computer with these specs possibly be used for? Do people actually buy stuff like this?
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Since there is a Quatro in it I guarantee that the computer is for professional level 3D modeling, computer graphics, and/or audio/visual editing.2x 3.2GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
32GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
Mac Pro RAID Card
300GB 15000RPM SAS
3x 1TB HD
Nvidia Quatro FX 5600 1.5GB
Total: $18,649
What would a computer with these specs possibly be used for? Do people actually buy stuff like this?
trodeback
Just a question, if it can play crysis, how well would it?evil_pickle
not very well, the quatro is apparently not good for gaming, crysis cant take advantage of 2 quad cores and there probably wouldn't be much of a difference between having 4gigs of ram and 32gigs of ram when it comes to performance in crysis, unless you were running programs in the background.
Just a question, if it can play crysis, how well would it?evil_pickleYou would need to install XP x64 or Vista x64 to be able to address 32GB of Video RAM. And in the case of Vista, you'd need to have the Business or Ultimate versions as the Home (x64) versions of Vista only address up to 8GB of system RAM.
Not with a Quadro, but it is able to be equipped with an 8800GT 512MB card now. With the 8800GT, and depending on how well Crysis scales with multiple cores, this thing CPU-wise stands a chance of being able to max all the non-graphical stuff in Crysis no problem. It is just simply a shame that intel will only allow their own 5000X chipset for addressing those Xeons, and thus no ability to get some CrossFire or SLi action going on.Would this system show any vast superiority on a game like crysis?
trodeback
That hardware isn't aimed at gamers - it's aimed a video editors who need a great deal of processing power, RAM, and hard drive space to edit high-resolution videos. When you're rendering, general CPU power is pretty important - a card like the Quadro is nice for that and driving ultra-high res displays as well.
These kind of machines won't have Crysis on them, and they shouldn't - it's just not what the task for which the machine is speced.
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As for why the GPU is different - remember that movies (Hollywood) does 3D a bit differently than games. DirectX shader language rendering on the fly isn't the concern - using lots of processing power to "brute force" true supersampling based anti-aliasing, calculate frames of animation, apply changes across thousands of frames of animation, et cetera - that all is. Hence aiming for RAM, processing power, and hard drive capacity
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