You have $6000 for a system, What do you buy?

I need to build a render beast for Cinema 4D, After Effects and Premiere projects.  Budget is $6000.
We are looking at overclocking two Intel Xeon X5690s (4.1Ghz-ish) on a SR-2 board with 64GB ram, Nvidia GTX 580 card.
Can we do better than this?  Do any of the Sandy Bridge chips do better (are cheaper?)?
Hopefully Harm can chime in!   What's the best we can do?

If that's all you have for a budget, I would start out with the warrior system here:
and overclock it to around 4.4 GHz. Additionally, I would add even more disks for a larger array with one or two hot-spares, and when you add it all up, including fans, BR burner, 4 GB cache on the Areca and a BBM, possibly a switch for dual teamed NIC's to the other systems and maybe a UPS, your budget is depleted. Dual Xeons are way too expensive and will not fit in this budget, unless you cut corners on the disk setup and memory. There is no doubt a dual Xeon system is fantastic, but if you look at the Juggernaut system that leads the pack in the PPBM5 benchmark, that is a $ 20K system.

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for

  • X-Fi Xtrememusic w/ Heatsink Lower RMAA Resul

    Hi, I just purchased the X-Fi Xtrememusic and am loving the quality of the Analog out with my headphones. I'm curious though, because accorfing to this http://audio.rightmark.org/downloads/Sound%20Blaster%20X-Fi%20Testing%20Methodology%20And%20Result

  • Is it possible to get the decline and answer buttons from sleep mode?

    The way my iphone operates now, when a call comes in and the phone is in sleep/locked mode, the only option is to slide the lock to answer the call. When a call comes in and the phone is not locked, it gives the option to decline the call with a red

  • I cant watch any videos

    I can't watch any videos online on websites like YouTube. I recently re-installed all my software and put all my settings back to the original settings but now there is no way that I can watch videos. Please Help..! Also I downloaded Adobe, but all t

  • VPN Internet

    Hi All! My Internet provider use VPN for Internet connection. How I may create VPN connection in Solaris 10 9/10 x86

  • HT1051 Aperture photo books

    Does the payment address and the shipping address have to be in the same country? It gives me the opportunity to change my address but the drop down only allows me to select address as the same country as I am in...