clyde236 opened this issue on May 24, 2002 ยท 23 posts
clyde236 posted Fri, 24 May 2002 at 4:13 AM
Hi All, I have a chance to get a PC for what seems like a good price from a computer repair place that will configure a system to my needs. It seems like a good deal, but I use MACs mostly, so this is new to me and I wonder if you guys know what is best for working with both Poser and Bryce (because of render times, which are always a concern.) There are two systems available. One is a Pentium 4 (1.2 GHZ?) with a 40 GB hard drive, CD burner (not sure of the speed), 17" monitor, sound blaster card and external speakers, and ethernet built in, for $800. The other the same set up but with an AMD K6 (1.4 GHZ?) CPU and is $900. I am very confused by the PC CPU products. I know that Pentium is supposed to be better than Celeron (something about the cache), and that AMD is faster than Pentium but there may be compatibility problems with some programs (a lot that I have seen say "requires genunie Intel processor") I know that bus speed is important, and the guy told me the AMD has a 200MHZ bus on it. I have a G4 with a 133 MHZ bus, and I thought that was the fastest (in MACs, I believe it is). Does this sound correct for a PC bus? Any advice what I should ask about to be sure the computer will give me really good perfomance with Poser and Bryce? Do these seem like good deals? Both would run Windows 98 (I know how to use that) but could have Windows 2000 or even XP on it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!