CPU choice
CPU choice
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Hi all, I’m looking to get a new CPU, but I’m undecided whether to get AMD Athlon 64 3800+ or INTEL 3.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 560.
Could you give me any tips on which are the better choice??
Also can anyone shed any light on Hypertransport for the Intel and Hyperthreading for the AMD?
What is the difference if any? I need a good CPU for rendering.
Thanks in advance
Grant 101
Could you give me any tips on which are the better choice??
Also can anyone shed any light on Hypertransport for the Intel and Hyperthreading for the AMD?
What is the difference if any? I need a good CPU for rendering.
Thanks in advance
Grant 101






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If you go with the AMD get the 939 pin cpu "
Is there any particular reason for this?
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The Socket 939 AMD processor has more available bandwidth I believe, even though its not mentioned in the article.
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Aside: Any particular reason you are using Photoworks for renderings? My experience with it is that it only ever does an ok job and never does anything particularly awesome.
I much prefer PovRay or similar true raytracing software.
nick
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Anyone can be Captain in a calm sea.
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Im just trying to get some information on rendering and CPU's.
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If anyone could recommend a system setup I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance
Grant 101
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I posted a link to a recent CADalyst review of workstations that discuss some of these issues.
Thread559-119270
I use a 64-bit Opteron (AMD) and love it--it's over a year old and still faster than many of the P4 systems my clients have. So there's a lot to be said for the CPU, motherboard, and the architecture that ties everything together. It's not all about the CPU.
I use PhotoWorks all the time and have not found it lacking in reality if I feel like setting up a scene for an hour or two. Brian Hill has some impressive images done with PhotoWorks:
http://www.bxhdesigns.com/
Has anyone posted available renderings using other rendering systems? I keep hearing about them, but haven't seen renderings of things generated in SW and modeled in these other systems. I'm curious to see the extreme diffeence touted here. Isn't Povray a free download?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.
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Here is a link to the povray site:
www.povray.org
I began using povray many many moons ago when I was first in college. You dont want to know how long it took to render my simple 640x480x16bit first experiments with raytracing. (80486 33Mhz, 1024kbytesRAM, ISA VGA 24bit video card)
PovRay can be very hard to use at first cause it is code driven not GUI. Although this code driven environment allows very detailed images to be created.
I havent outputted anything from SW to Povray yet, since the only thing I've really worked on in Photoworks looked good for the advertisement that was in MachineDesign.
nick
NickE
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check out the Hall of Fame for some truly stunning images.
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.
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Spend as much as you can on Processor (regardless AMD or Pent).
Spend as much as you can on RAM
Spend as much as you can to get a rock solid SW recomended Video Card.
We don't even put sound cards on our Computers that we use for Cad, that budget money was moved into the video card and processor expenses, along with other perhiperal costs.
Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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Thank you all very much for all your advice.
Kind regards
Grant 101