AMD Phenom vs Intel Core 2Quad?
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Hi Everybody,
I'm planning to buy a new desktop pc, but I was wondering wich Processor is beter for rendering purposes. Can somebody give me advise? I know that the new I7 or an Apple power mac are better but they are not within my budget.
Greetz from the Netherlands
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Here's a chart showing the time it took different processors to render a test scene with 3dsmax. Lower is better.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-desktop-cpu-charts/3DS-Max-2009,1380.html -
personally id go with the intel, they're very easy to overclock with a decent cooling setup which means you can get a lot of processing bang for your buck.
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Thanx for the advise. I will go for Intel. I can't wait to have my new rig. It will open up a whole new world of possebilities for me. I hope it wil speed up rendering. Maybe I can try some animations now
thanx from Holland
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I would recommend the AMD. I use SU7 Pro on a Phenom Quad core 9850 that I built (asus mobo). It runs great. You can take the cash you save and put it into a good video card. the video card is probably more critical. And of course, you can never have too much RAM.
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@unknownuser said:
I would recommend the AMD. I use SU7 Pro on a Phenom Quad core 9850 that I built (asus mobo). It runs great. You can take the cash you save and put it into a good video card. the video card is probably more critical. And of course, you can never have too much RAM.
I'd second this opinion. I use a Phenom x4 9950 2.6GHz Black Edition along with 8GB of 400Mhz DDR3 RAM on a Gigabyte mobo. The very cool thing about AMD is they have some fantastic tweaking applications like AMD Overdrive and AMD Desktop Fusion that make it VERY easy and simple to tweak your CPU, RAM and if you have an ATI video card, your GPU. You can find out more about them here: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_overdrive.aspx (check the left side bar).
The money I saved in going to AMD was spent on a Radeon 4870 GPU with 2GB of DDR5 VRAM... The whole setup is totally configurable, tweakable and runs like a charm.
Cheers.
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Personally I'd go with whichever gives better performance out of the box. I'm not a big fan of OCing anything, but that's just personal preference. I figure if it isn't good enough on its own merits, why get it? I realize that for some folks, overclocking is just standard operating procedure; but I want my components to last, avoid voiding any warranties, avoid the need for fancy or excessive heat removal components and prevent any instability issues. It may cost me a little more to buy something more current rather than OCing an older component to get the same or slightly better performance, but that's just me.
JMO, pick whichever goes faster out of the box.
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