Hi all. I'm new to these boards but am seeing such a wealth of knowledge, I am hoping someone can help me out. If there is another place to post this within these forums please let me know but this seemed like the best place.
I am building a 3D workstation for modeling and rendering. I will be using Maya, Photoshop, Premiere and a few other smaller apps. I have decided on the following for sure:
- 2 Xeon 5410 Quad cores proc's (8 cores total)
- 2gig ECC FB DIMM Ram (I know it should be more but that will come later)
- NVidia Quadro FX 1700
- Seagate 250Gig System drive (probably the 7200.11)
- Seagate 500Gig Storage drive
I am uncertain over the rest and am hoping for some advice.
Cases: The cases I have looked at are the Antec Titan 650 or the Supermicro
CSE 743TQ-865B (which is really ugly but I could live with it). Any thoughts on which will be quieter with the stock fans they come with? Should I change fans out? Any thoughts on quality?
PSU: Are the PSU's that come with either of those cases decent quality?
Motherboard: I have two that I am looking at but this is my area of greatest confusion.
First is the Tyan Tempest i5100x and second is the Supermicro MBD-X7DAE+-O 5000X. Will I have compatibility issues with either of these? What differences will the various Intel Chipsets make to me? Why are there so many types of chipsets?
Thanks for any and all help. I appreciate it.
Have a great day,
Paul