Quote - > Quote - For 2/3rds of that price you can get the dual core athlon 5000+ computer.. the entire system.

It's like $950 shipped, and has a $50 rebate plus you get windows vista upgraded fo free.

I seeing outstanding render speed here with it. I can render a standard window with everything on in less then a minute.

If you choose to get that system, best current "buys" are also geta a 500 wat power supply to replace the base HP one, and a ati x1950 pro 256 meg video card. (about $200 after it's $30 rebate)

 

That's my question...is there some tangible advantage of Intel dual core over an AMD dual core? In the past, Poser has usually shown better time trials on AMD than Intel. If a "dual core is a dual core," what contra-indications would remain for chosing AMD?

Also, is there an AMD quad?

Also, since "four" seems to be the Poser upper limit now, what about a motherboard which sockets two AMD dual core processors to give you four threads. Any objections to that?

I also want to throw in the mix that the front side bus has also always had a great impact on Poser, that was shown in many time trials over the past three years on these boards. Unknown if that is still the case, but why would it not be?

So what is the untilmate drive train?

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The new (weill it was new a couple of months ago) Intel Core 2 Duo dual core chips are significantly faster and more importantly very cool running.  Thus allowing them to over clock to an insane level.  I may be wrong in this, but I believe that windows XP will only allow 2 CPUs.  Therefore, to use a quad CPU setup would require a different OS (I don't know the limit in Vista).  The current price levels for either the Core 2 quad chips or the AMD 4x4 chips/motherboards seems insane for performance gain at this time. IMHO the best purchase at this time is a e6600 (though I like the e6400 too).  I use both a dual core AMD and one of the Core 2 Duos and it is crazy the performance boost I have seen.

Some articles

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/07/14/core2_duo_knocks_out_athlon_64/
an article about the AMD 4x4 platfrom
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/11/30/brute_force_quad_cores/

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