Looking to put together a 3d graphics workstation.
My current machine is just not cutting it when it comes to poly intensive 3DStudio Max scenes and I'm sick of waiting on it so much everytime I need to navigate through even a simple scene. I haven't built a workstation in long time so I'm not up to speed on what type of hardware should be in the machine.I don't want to spend top dollar for the latest and greatest, but I would like something pretty nice. I have two 19" CRT monitors (flat screen CRT) that I would like to use.
Any tips? I was thinking Dual Opteron, 2GB of ram, SATA Raid0 or Raid1, but as far as graphics card, specific chips, motherboard, etc.. I am lost.