hi all, i have in my hands about 2000-2200 euro for buy a new pc... i want it specially for may grafic works and rendering, some suggestion about Ram, cpu, ect ?? thanx

I am comtemplating an Athlon 64 4200 x2, Corsair xms (2x1gb) 184-pin ddr sdram ddr 400 (pc3200) unbuffered dual channel (Twin2048-3200c2, Asus A8N SLI Premium motherboard. This is a decent computer for a fair price. If you have the money an Athlon 64 4800 x2 is better.

Hi Luca I recommend keeping an eye out for the recent AMD CPU price drop to affect system prices - so soon you can get more bang for your Euro! Frederic Louget recommend's AMDs over Intels and I agree that dual core AMDs +2Gb RAM is the best budget way to go. (Dual Dual-CPUs even better!) up to your spending limit. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29195 http://renderfred.free.fr/ (see Benchmarks) With Win 64-bit & Vista (end of this year apparently), the n the it will be worth going over 2Gb. Kind regards

I know that I'll be waiting for Vista before buying a new machine. I don't want to buy a 64bits cpu now with a 32bits Windows. Oh, and by the time Vista is out, maybe Vue6 64bits edition will be too!

I have an AMD64 based computer, and it is a breeze to work with. Most 3d apps are going 64bit. You cannot go wrong, as the 64bit AMD chips also supports 32bit instructions without a batting an eyelash. Other than that, buy the fastest and largest ram you can.

Just read a review of the G5 Quad, what a monster!

If you can afford it, go for an AMD64 x2 4400 or 4800. They have a larger L2 cache (1 MB per core) than the 4200 and 4600 (512 KB per core), and cache size seems to be quite important to rendering. I built an Athlon64x2 4400 system just two months ago, for about 2100 Euros. My only mistake was the graphics card. While the nVidia 7800GTX is a great gamer card, its OpenGL performance is not very good. I'm seriously thinking of getting myself a 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 100 or 200 for this machine. But it's quite expensive (around 700 Euros). Recommendations: Athlon64x2 4400. Asus/MSI mainboard with nForce4 chipset. SLI is not needed. 2 GB/4GB of RAM, using 1 GB modules (you'll love 4GB when you upgrade to 64bit, and the good people at e-on told me that Vue 6 will have 64bit support). Kingston HyperX is very good. 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 100/200 PCI Express

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/08/01/dual/page10.html Actually the 1 mb of cache is negligible in comparision to 512. Increasing the MHz has more of signifigance in decreasing render time than a higher cache. OpenGL performance issues are probably more related to e-ons inferior coding than to 7800GTX inability.

My secondary workstation (Athlon64 3500+) has a Geforce 6800LE graphics card, tweaked into a Quadro FX4000. The core chip is slower than the 7800GTX core, but its OpenGL performace is significantly better, both in 3D Studio Max 6 and in Vue 5 Infinite. Alas, the 7800GTX cannot be tweaked into its Quadro equivalent.