ZBrushCentral

opteron 275 or intel core2duo x6800

Hello,

i have a dual Opteron 275 system (4 core) with a supermicro H8DCE and 4096MB RAM.
But with Windows XP PRO 32bit and Data Center i can only see 2250MB RAM. Now i will buy a new system :

Intel core2duo extreme + Wakü *4GHz
ABIT AW9D-MAX, i975X

and Geforce 7950GX2 + 8GB RAM

In the benchmark of www.vertexmonkey.com is the core2duo better than the opteron systeme.

would this system better for use with Zbrush and Modo/ Cinema 4D

Thank you for help. :qu:

I’m sure that either of them will work just fine. So buy the cheaper one.

IF you don’t need that other system I will humbly take the burden of owning a computer from your hands. Dual dual-core, giggity!

I would hold off on buying the 7950 x2 at this point since the G80 is just
around the corner and early reports show it to be a superior single gpu solution for (guessing) the same price point. Luckily I saw the leaked news of it the day I was about to buy the 7950 x2.
If you do wait, then just buy the kentsfield which is also around the corner,
and then you would really have a kicking machine. Plus it does look like they are fixing the northbridge of the nforce and will have 3xsli nforce 680 boards
with the arrival of the G80.