Re: vid card and CPU recommendation for computer animation?

FWIW,

I'm using a ATI FireGL card at work and a semi-cheap nVidia card at home 
- to do CAD and some CGI, really can't say that I see much difference...

I'm also using a 24" LCD screen (Dell) at work and a 19" CRT (ViewSonic) 
at home - personally I like the CRT better....

Martin

Liam wrote:
> I'm building my wife a decent PC that she can use to do some computer
> animation and CAD on.
> Not counting the monitors, I have about $800 or so budget.
> Any recommendations on what video card(s) to get. She's dual-
> monitoring--is it better to get one powerful card with two outputs, or
> two separate cards?
> What about CPU? Intel or AMD better than the other for animation and
> rendering? Do number of cores and MHz matter more or less than the
> amount of RAM?
> 
> Thanks for any advice!
> Liam