Thanks for the warm welcome! The atmosphere at this site is another reason I was interested in joining. I've seen some other
sign sites and they were a bit more, um.... "unrestrained."
Ken - Like Techman said, the average "gaming" video card is meant for 3d rendering so it wouldn't have much impact on RIP software. But, it may help in the design stage when using something like Photoshop or Corel. I was actually thinking of a separate thread to discuss video cards. After reading some older threads on this site I did some testing & benchmarking (2D) on my own and started to get a different opinion than I initally had. Thread coming soon!
I welcome everyone's input in all discussions. I don't get upset when others voice their opinion, especially in hardware discussion. It's far easier to work out all the bugs in a design before you start buying & assembling components. I'm happy to post a list of all components of a particualar machine to the board so others can critique what's being used; there are no secrets here!
Again, thanks for making me feel at home!
Oh, and GraphiXtreme -
You'll find that the value of that server far exceeds the cost of the components. Many people neglect backups until they've lost a drive or a whole machine. Most of you know that the time involved in these designs could never be recovered. The next phase for the
sign shop here is to build a network attached storage setup with autoarchive. Not only will that be a good backup of the design files, it'll also make the data easily accessible when they add another workstation.
