Hy,
i'm going to building a workstation, for professional works, on my own and i'd like to have your opinion.
I work with avid xpress pro and combustion 3 and this are the components i would assembler (excuse me if my english is not correct i'm an italian guy):
MOTHERBOARD:
*Asus PC-DL Deluxe:
Chipset Intel 875P
Dual Socket 604 per Xeon
2 x ATA100, 2 x SATA RAID 0,1
Dual Channel DDR333
NON supports ECC Reg.
1 AGP Pro 8x e 5 PCI
6 USB 2.0, 2 FireWire
Audio 6 canali, Lan Gigabit
*PROCESSOR:
dual Intel Xeon 2.8GHz 533MHz Box:
Socket 604
Frequenza 2.8GHz
Bus 533MHz
8KB cache Livello 1
512KB cache Livello 2
Version Boxed
*MEMORY:
A-Data DDR 1GB PC3200:
freqency 400MHz
Capacity 1GB
184pin
Chip NON Winbond
HD:
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA 160GB:
Capacity 160GB
7200RPM
Serial ATA 150Mb/s
Buffer 8mb
VIDEO CARD:
PNY FX 1100 :
GPU Nvidia Quadro FX 1100
AGP 8X
128MB DDR2
Support DirectX 9.0
Support OpenGL 2.0
2 Connettors DVI