Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Intel or AMD?

ashley9803 opened this issue on Feb 21, 2007 · 56 posts


DustRider posted Sat, 24 February 2007 at 7:06 PM Online Now!

Sorry, guess I didn't make myself clear. A Core2 Duo system without enough RAM, and an integrated video card that uses this same RAM will not perform as well as a properly equiped AMD system. When your on a tight budget, you'll get better performance out of a well equiped AMD system vs a poorly equiped Intel system. Getting a higher performing processor while skimping on system components almost always traslates into poorer performance.

To get an equivalant Core2 Duo laptop, I would have had to pay $400 dollars more, or get a system with 1Gb of RAM, a GeforceGo 6150le that shared system RAM, and 120Gb hard drive. By going with a Truion64 TL56 X2, I got 2GB RAM, a GeForceGo 7600 with 250 MB of dedicated RAM, and 2x100Gb hard drives. There is no way the less expensive crippled Intel system could have handled what I needed to do (not just Poser, I'm running photogrametric, remote sensing, and geographic imaging software), and I couldn't go the extra $400 for a Core2 Duo.

Bottom Line: I got a system that is a good performer, that does what I need - very well, and saved $400 too. Sure, I can't go braging about my ultra hot system to everyone I see, but I can do what I need to do, which at the end of the day that's all I really need. 

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