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dual core or dual xeon? Hey guys I'm looking at getting a serious new workstation for rendering. I use 3DS max for animation and rendering which as far as i know isn't available on a 64bit platform yet. im trying to find the best solution to give me the biggest bang for my buck. i've heard that the pentium d see's as much as a 50% improvement with animation and rendering because of their dual core which makes it a great contender up against a dual xeon, since they aren't available with dual core's yet. and with a dual xeon machine you will probably get only another 80-90% out of the second processor. I'm not sure how a single xeon compares up against a pentium D of the same speed (say 3.0ghz with 2mb cache), but im guessing the price performance ratio of the pentium d would kick it. im not sure if im correct, but im guessing if i bought 2 pentium D 3ghz machines it would be cheaper and much faster than 1 dual xeon box.
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thanks for the reply! well it will begin as a part of a farm, but i will probably drop in a high end pci-e card later on. heres a link to a piece i did which I just won one of the GSAA awards for- http://www.spinifexinteractive.com.a...oreveal-03.mov The amds i have found to be a good choice in terms of price performance in pretty much everything except 3d rendering. the pentiums for quite a while have been quite a bit ahead of them if you checkout the benchmarks on tomshardware.com. Quote:
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o this may come in usefull to anyone that wants a graphics card http://www.alias.com/eng/about/event...&v=na&x=17&y=8 if you get a chance go to the maya 7 tour,(or any maya show) i went to the an evning with ILM seminar in london a few days ago, they were selling one of the latest ATI cards, i forget which one, but it normally costs £420, and they were selling it for £220
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