Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: this has probably been talked about before: pentium vs. athlon?

davo opened this issue on Sep 18, 2002 ยท 14 posts


shadownet posted Wed, 18 September 2002 at 5:01 PM

My experience has been that the Athlon does better. I run computers with both chips you just mentions. One is a P4 2 ghz, 512 ram, and 128mb Radon video card, and has 3 scsi drives (older scsi but still 7200 rpm and 7.5 ms, -which is about what the 2 IDE drives on my other computer rate). The other computer is Athlon 1.4, 1 gb ram, 32mb Geforce video, and 2 IDE drives. Both run win2k. I ran side by side comparisons of both systems using the same files in Poser. I could open files quicker and render the same file, side by side, faster on the Athlon than on the P4. I have since swapped out the video cards and my Athlon really kicks now. Ok, I admit this was probably not a fair comparison of chips since both systems were configured differently. But the only real disadvantage the P4 system had was less ram. Otherwise, it had a faster cpu, a better video card, and the advantage of being a full-blown scsi system. So, what was the deciding factor? Did the Athlon 1.4 ghz chip just out perform the P4 2 ghz chip or was the difference in ram the deciding factor? If ram made the difference, I'd say save yourself the cost of the new computer and add some more ram. Oh, if anyone wants a slightly used scsi p4 system, with a 32mb geforce video card, let me know. :O)