Quad Core CPU

[JasonGilholme]

phenoms?

I think of the fembots from austin powers when i read that! haha.

Sorry for the off topic lol

will have to look them up.

[poita]

im running an EN8800GT at the moment, 512mb card.
was awesome when i bought it.

phenom = amd quad core

[MAD-16V]

2 x GTX 260 core 216 in SLI here

[JasonGilholme]

Im on an E8500 Core 2 duo , runs solid at 4.2ghz and is more than enough to support high end gfx cards and image processing software.

From all of the benchmarks I have seen the performance per dollar of the i7 chips is not up to par at the moment.

If you guys are into 3d design and physics you should be looking more towards gpu isntead of cpu.

not neccessarily.

The display is GPU goverened and isn't really the bottle neck. Its moreso calculating the simulation and caching it to disk as this uses the CPU. Once you've done that it will play realtime without any dramas.

Even cloth simulations with lots of samples will play back quite quickly once cached. its just making the cache which takes the time (could be 1 minute could be 2 hours depending on the complexity)

At the moment i'm running a high end gaming card for my 3D apps and the playback is fine. I wouldn't bother with the high end quadro type cards unless i was in need of some serious Hardware rendering.

[poita]

if i wasnt pooring so much into my cally i would be running something like that too


*edit*

hmmm not that much of a difference

[glider]

currently running

Phenom 9950
8GB DDR2 generic (either 800 or 1066 been to long)
XFX 8800GT 512MB (long overdue for an upgrade, 2nd display sometimes has issues, I think the card doesn't like 2x 1920x1200)
Vista x64

it gets the job done.

[JasonGilholme]

how do you find vista 64? I wanna run xp 64 on my new setup cause its been proven, but you can't buy it new anymore.

[ROCCO]

Personally stay away from XP 64...I havea copy here and its shit. If your gonna go x64 bit go either Vista 64 or Windows 7 64bit...(last one is free till june next year)

[glider]

how do you find vista 64? I wanna run xp 64 on my new setup cause its been proven, but you can't buy it new anymore.

tbh I dont mind it anymore, would probably rather be running XP but cant be bothered setting everything up again

[Calibrated]

well im either going phenom or i7. going phenom is definitely cheaper, but depends how long its shelf life still is. weighing up the pro's and con's.