- Two X5690 Xeons --- excellent.
- 48GB PC3-10600R --- That's registered (server) memory; good stuff, and plenty of it.
- Hard drives: He says they're new. Hmmm. I'd use them, but get an Acronis True Image license and make full backups to an external HD periodically.
- USB3 ports are good for faster backups. If the ports are new, it's likely an add-on PCIe card. I've done this upgrade to my workstations.
- Quadro K4000 3GB: Nice workstation card; it will give superb previews in very complex scenes in Vue, etc. Not a GPU rendering powerhouse, though, for either Lux (OpenCL) or Octane (CUDA cores).
- LSI 9212-4i HBA: That's an add-in PCIe card which gives you more SATA ports to support more hard drives & optical drives. I think it also supports hard drives in RAID (two or more HDs working together as a single drive). A nice touch, especially if it has an external eSATA port to speed up backups.
- Win7Pro 64bit: Yep, that'll support all of the RAM.
- £1980: This is of course subjective, and depends on area (PC gear is more expensive in Oz, for example). I'd say that's a decent price; not cheap, to be sure, but fair enough. And you're getting far more muscle than you would if you spent the same amount on a new machine.
Poser 12, in feet.
OSes: Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64
Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5
