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Hi all,
I'm getting ready to build a new PC, and was wondering if anyone had any experience with SW and the athlon phenom quad core processors. Any stability issues? I have a athlon 2800= at home now, and SW runs good. I'm getting a quadro vid card, 4gb ram running SW 2008. thanks for any info
I'm getting ready to build a new PC, and was wondering if anyone had any experience with SW and the athlon phenom quad core processors. Any stability issues? I have a athlon 2800= at home now, and SW runs good. I'm getting a quadro vid card, 4gb ram running SW 2008. thanks for any info






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My previous system used a rather pricey AMD chip and I wasn't very satisfied with that. This new system was home-built, less expensive, and is very fast. I've not even overclocked it yet, but it seems by the results on forums I can obtain 4GHz with good stability.
Something to chew on. No point in being stuck on AMD unless they deliver great results--this doesn't appear to be their year so far...
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream? It's all right--we told you what to dream.
--Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine
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How are you liking the ATI/AMD card on this machine?
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yeah i heard rumors that they might be in financial trouble, and dell has stopped carrying them all together.
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So far I like this ATI card. I previously used nVidia Quatro cards, which were OK. This card has support for DirectX and will perhaps work well not only as a CAD card, but OK with at least lower-end games (my FX-500 and FX-1400 were sort of lame with that sort of thing). We'll see--no games on this system yet--just "work" stuff.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream? It's all right--we told you what to dream.
--Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine
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Also, while a quad core sounds good in theory they don't 'feel' fast when using them. They only show muscle in specific tasks, where as a fast dual core (at much higher clock speed) will always feel responsive.
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8% faster for twice the cores... Every Intel quad core is faster than the fastest Phenom. Take a look at the same CPUs in, for instance, the Photoshop benchmark.
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I was planning on the quadro fx570 card, but i may look into ati as well. Unfortunately the next quadro jumps to over $450
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This probably really depends on whether you'll use those other two cores very often. If you render with ~50% of your time or so, you'll get some good use out of those other cores. If not, you'll have a hard time ever making use of those cores.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream? It's all right--we told you what to dream.
--Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine
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A final note: look for a 64-bit OS if you ever want to use lots of RAM. XP Pro (32-bit) can only address 3.xGB of RAM.
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Also, be careful when switching to something like XP64. Can cause lots of other problems with hardware/driver/software issues--make sure you know what you're getting into. Yes, using all your RAM is great, but there are some caveats to making such a switch.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream? It's all right--we told you what to dream.
--Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine
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One other question. As far as power supply on the case i get, is there a recommended wattage i should go with minimum? I've been unable to find data that might tell me if the duo core/quad core processors need a real big PS. Thanks in advance!!!
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
What did you dream? It's all right--we told you what to dream.
--Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine