> Quote - AMD Athlon64 4400+ X2 (2.4 Ghz)   > Are you sure about 2.4 Ghz? I also have an Athlon64 4400X2 Socket 939, it runs at 2.25 Ghz (not overclocked in any way) > > I'll do the render tests on the Quad on 1600x1600.

Thanks for running the 1600x1600 numbers, definitely gives us all a better baseline and makes the quad core a lot more attractive. The performance boost between 400 and 800 was so small, glad it scales much better at higher rez. :)

Very interesting as well how the P7 Firefly renderer scales at higher resolutions. With 1600x1600 being 4x the area in pixels than 800x800, I would have expected the render time to scale closer to 4X as well.

Looks like a quad core will be a good investment for Poser users. I'll be looking at it more seriously myself. I usually only upgrade when I can get at least a 40% performance boost over my current system and I just couldn't get that by upgrading to any of the current dual core processors.