vincebagna opened this issue on Mar 31, 2007 · 68 posts
pjz99 posted Mon, 02 April 2007 at 4:33 AM
FYI, the quad core QX6700 Core 2 Extreme 2.66 GHz, is the same price!!! as the dual core X6800 Core 2 Extreme 2.93 GHz:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115011 Quad-core $965US
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115001 Dual-core $975US
And as I've found out in the past couple of days, the 4-core chip is very easy to overclock if you're into that; I raised my clock speed from 2.66 to 3.0 GHz and ran about 5 hours of render, on all 4 cores at 100% utilization, very stable.
For moving Poser -> Vue as Vince does quite a bit, more than 1GB of memory is very valuable, and if you're willing, 4GB or 8GB with the 64-bit install of Vue 6 under 64-bit Windows XP is really comfortable. No more problems with memory getting filled up when importing a complex scene.