onimusha opened this issue on Nov 30, 2005 ยท 18 posts
svdl posted Wed, 30 November 2005 at 12:16 PM
Unless you're using applications that are optimized for the long Pentium IV pipelines, AMD is the way to go. Dual-core and 64 bit is good, very good. Seems like the Athlon64x2 4400+ is the sweet spot - it's got 1 MB L2 cache instead of the 512K of the 4200, it's marginally more expensive than the 4200, and - very important - large caches are highly beneficial to Poser! The other option that's worth considering is a Pentium M machine. They have 2M cache, which is why a Pentium M at 1.8 GHz performs like a desktop Pentium at 3.0 Ghz. As far as I know, there are no 64 bit versions or dual core versions of the Pentium M yet. And they're friggin' expensive too. Agree with layingback about the HT. The trouble is that both "cores" access the same L1 data cache, which is only 8K in a Pentium IV. A real dual core machine has separate L1 caches for each core and a shared large L2 cache.
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