AMD MP 2000 Dual vs Xeon 2.2ghz Dual??

[mbr]

I am looking at two systems with almost identical components except the processors.

 

1 gig or ram (rdram with the xeons)

120 gb hard drive

Quadro 5 700 xgl (64mb)

 

One is an Alienware, the other a refurbished Dell

 

I've read that the AMD duals render much quicker than the Xeons, but don't know which of these is a better deal. They are both close to $3700 with 21" Trinitron (Dell) or 22" Mistubishi (Alien).

Which would you buy?

[bigcahunak]

AMD!!!

[Guest alkion]

Hi

well basically it's kind of difficult they both have 32 bit cisc tech but AMD support only 2 multi processor. Where as xeon support infinite number:P. If you aware of 3dworld magazine order the august issue is a must hve or go their website www.3dworldmag.co.uk It says everything you need to know

by the way im a amd person:P

it's up to you

1 more thing if amd says it runs at 2ooo then it will probably be 1800

 

[ September 29, 2002, 09:30 AM: Message edited by: alkion ]

[Paul Griger]

hi mbr,

 

there was a good discussion on dual amd's back in april here on the bb, you may find it of benefit:

 

http://www.cgarchitect.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000001

 

Have fun shopping!

[Greg Hess]

" identical components except the processors."

 

They aren't identical. One costs a hell of a lot more money. (The Xeon)[if your doing a price/performance contest]. It takes a Dual 2.4 Xeon to even start competing against a dual 2000+ MP.

 

Currently the best dual system to buy is either a dual 2.8 Xeon (Which if you can afford it, is the fastest system on the market), or a dual 2200+ MP AMD.

 

If your looking at Dual 2000+ MP's, thats right around the performance range of a dual 2.2-2.4 Xeon (Depending on what your doing). I'd probably push to have them be 2100+ or 2200+ MP's if possible (Since you were looking at xeon's, it means you have the money to upgrade them to dual 2200+ MP's).

 

Either that, or wait for the new xeons in november, which have a bunch of architectural changes to increase performance.

 

And I'd go boxxtech.com or alienware.com 1000x over before even THINKING about the shitty ass dell. (No offense to dell owners, but the systems are usually crap).

 

As for the multiple processor comment. AMD cpu's scale to 16 cpu's. There just isn't a motherboard manufacturer which chooses to support that configuration.

 

As for quad xeons. You could build an entire dual amd render farm for one of those things.