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Originally posted by VERTiG0 So after a bit more research, seems the Xeon X3220s aren't showing up in anybody's hands with G0 steppings, so I'm just going to go with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 - which means I don't need that ridiculous motherboard anymore to accomodate a Xeon. And, because Core 2 chips see their biggest increases in performance when memory and FSB are at a 1:1 ratio, I'll scale back to 800MHz memory... OCZ Platinum XTC Rev.2 PC2-6400 CL4-4-4-15. I'd prefer Crucial Ballistix, but for $80 less, and the minimum RAS active time is only 3 cycles slower than the Ballstix, I'll go with OCZ. Then I played the Bioshock demo the other day, and I forgot what a Quadro was. So then: Antec P182 case Seasonic 620w PSU Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme HSF with a 120mm Yate Loon Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard 2GC OCZ Platinum XTC Rev.2 PC2-6400 RAM 500GB Seagate SATA hard disk eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Gonna run 8x400 on the multiplier and FSB to reach at 3200MHz, thus keeping the FSB and RAM at the desired 1:1 ratio.

you should have sticked with an 8800 GTX and get 1066 memory and overclock it higher.

Your system is not bad... I have just upgraded my comp too and I am also running AutoCad 2008 with Land Desktop 2007.

My suggestion is to go get Intel 2 Duo Core E6850 with FSB 1333mhz and 3.0 GHz.

If you want to get a quadro, its just waist of money, there are only couple software which are written to use all 4 cores. And I don’t think Autocad supports 4 cores. You will only benefit if you do some kind of band which like video encoding.

Motherboard you need a future prove so you can change CPU when new 45 nm cpus will come out.

I am running Mushkin memory XP2-6400 ( 2gb x 1 gb sticks), which is a performance memory. You can only buy them from Canada Computers or Mushkin online store.

I don’t suggest getting a 1066 Mhz of memory, because its just a waist of money.

For example E6850 runs at 1333mhz you divide that number by 4, you get 333. That is the actual speed of processor. Multiply 333 by 2 you get 666. 666 is the frequency which your memory should be run. So if you get 1066 Mhz memory it will be under volted to run at speeds of 666 mhz. However if you want to run your memory at 1066 you need to overclock your FSB to around 2000 mhz, meaning you need very good motherboard and cooling.

About video card, my suggestion to buy some cheap one, and wait until new once to come out with better direcx 10 support.


My system:
Antec P180 $160
Seasonic 430w $100
E6850 $320
Asus P5K Deluxe $220
Mushkin XP2-6400 $240
WD 500gb
Zalman cooling CPU temp around 20 C
Some cheap Radeon….

Check out... www.mushkin.com Go to forum with their memory. Support can give you manual settings for your motherboard for the best performance.

Also get Windows Xp with the newest upgradest and hotfixes... AutoCad will performe way better with XP. Vista has to many bugs.... to begin with.

my turd 2-3 year old Dell Laptop (600m)
with 1.6ghz pentium M
1 gig ram


runs these programs just fine:

Catia
Inventor 11
AutoCad 2007
Solid Edge
Mastercam X
3dStudio Max

etc

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 So after a bit more research, seems the Xeon X3220s aren't showing up in anybody's hands with G0 steppings, so I'm just going to go with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 - which means I don't need that ridiculous motherboard anymore to accomodate a Xeon. And, because Core 2 chips see their biggest increases in performance when memory and FSB are at a 1:1 ratio, I'll scale back to 800MHz memory... OCZ Platinum XTC Rev.2 PC2-6400 CL4-4-4-15. I'd prefer Crucial Ballistix, but for $80 less, and the minimum RAS active time is only 3 cycles slower than the Ballstix, I'll go with OCZ. Then I played the Bioshock demo the other day, and I forgot what a Quadro was. So then: Antec P182 case Seasonic 620w PSU Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme HSF with a 120mm Yate Loon Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard 2GC OCZ Platinum XTC Rev.2 PC2-6400 RAM 500GB Seagate SATA hard disk eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Gonna run 8x400 on the multiplier and FSB to reach at 3200MHz, thus keeping the FSB and RAM at the desired 1:1 ratio.

I picked up an Antec Solo myself... love it.. but if you need the 182.. Seasonic 620 is overkill.. get a Corsair 520.. the HX series is built by seasonic anyway...

I have the 120 and YL combo.. the brackets dont fit.. you're going to have to cut up the yate loon.. gonna take some work.

the p35 DS3s have been getting good reviews.. but i only really see the DS3R reviews ever.. dunno about L. Good call on the 2Gb.. 64-bit is not worth it yet the drivers are not at all mature (even the 32-bit ones.. and vista's terrible pseudo-linux authorization process). If you're doing actual work on that computer i'd suggest possibly getting a DS3R and putting 2x 320gb raid 1. 8800gts is perfect price point right now.

Otherwise it's a good combo.

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