kainoa Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 Hello All, In need of some quick advice. I need to build another wkstation pronto (like tonight). I'm looking at either an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Dual-Core proc, or Dual Opteron 248's. Any advice regarding these two, or anything else I should be looking at will be greatly appreciated. Mahalo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/athlon64-x2/index.x?pg=1 This report has everything you need. Its quite long though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainoa Posted September 14, 2005 Author Share Posted September 14, 2005 Many thanks, will have a look Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 If I understand their numbering schemes these days (and they do have a lot of them, don't they) the AthlonX2 should be a little faster and probably less expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oluv Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 according to their sheets, rendering was fastest with dual opteron 275, but i have no idea how expensive this one is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 We recently got a dual core athlon at work and it takes the royal p*ss out of the HT P4's. Nearly twice as quick at internal rederings in vray in direct comparison. Apparently the Pentiums are better at video and 2d editing (as long as theres no ram issues) but i have done no practical comparisons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainoa Posted September 15, 2005 Author Share Posted September 15, 2005 Well, I ordered an AMD Athlon X2 4200+ ($473 @ newegg). They were out of Quadro FX540's, so I just got a GeForce 6600. Can't wait to put this thing together. According to all the benchmarks I've been reading, these new dual-cores smoke everything except the very fastest Opteron$$$. They're even faster than the dual Opt 248's I was looking at, and even dual 3.4 GHz XEON's. I currently use a P4 2.8 GHz (no HT) so I should see a huge difference in rendertimes. I use Acad, SketchUp, and Max w/ Vray. Mostly lo-res test renders though, lately I've been sending my stuff out to ResPower for final renders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 All of this makes sense - the 4200+ is (if I understand their numbering) actually two of a CPU they would otherwise be selling as 3300+, making it a 6600+ CPU when you have 100% efficient use of dual CPUs (and the render engines are generally close to 100% efficient), so you should be able to perform about as fast as a dual Intel 3.3GHz box, BUT for apps that use 1 CPU, an Intel chip above 3.3GHz is faster. HT chips are just single CPUs with a robust multithreading capability, so dual-cores are faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinice Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 I just had an X2 3800+ running Lightwave last week. Basically 2.0Ghz X2 is equivalent to roughly 5.5Ghz P4 (not that you can get one) for rendering. And it is so much more cooler and quieter. Can't wait for the 64bit applications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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