Ordering new Athlon x2 upgrade soon!!

[DaForce]

Will do

[jacksc02]

sweet (post #196)

[DaForce]

dude (post #197)

[jacksc02]

dude, what does mine say? (post #19

[RErender]

Moderator, please lock this thread...

[jacksc02]

hey, thats not fair!!! (post #200)

"evil 200 post curse has been lifted............"

[DaForce]

Moderator, please ban RErender for obstruction of curse removal

yay the curse is lifted...wait ..i dont feel any different...
OH NO...that can only mean one thing
a 300 POST CURSE!!! (post #201)

heheh j/k
what an impressively bloated thread.. LOL

[paulison]

2k would be fine with a dual core since they do not have HT( except for the extreme edition intel and like buck said 2+ opti dc's).

We have 10 830's running on our farm with XP64, so far they are very stable and are about equal to a dual Xeon 2.8.

Thanks for that. Answers all of our questions. Originally we were thinking of waiting incase the dual cores had any issues/bugs but with your good experiences so far it sounds like a safe move. We are probably going for 10-12 830's as well with 2gb ram (ive rarely needed more than 1gb so far)

XP pro should be fine right? There is a reg fix to remove the 10 connection limit for the manager machine so shouldnt need XP server afterall

[jacksc02]

paulison, why are you going with the 830's??
we had an 830 here in our office and it is really crap! the X2's s&*% all over it

[DaForce]

paulison:
Yeah mate the x2's are a far superior product, you would be better of going for the X2 in my opinion.

[jacksc02]

they are cheaper too!

we are getting 6 x2 render boxes here, and they work out to be really inexpensive

[DaForce]

see this other thread why IMO the pentiums are poo
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...ic.php?t=12421

[TRGraphics]

I agree don't buy the pentium. Old technology before they even came out.

My x2's are much faster than my dual XEON 2.8 system. No way the pentium dual chips are even close to as fast as even the XEON 2.8's.

You will not be happy if you buy the pentiums.

The x2's price is dropping fast. Already $80.00 cheaper than just a month ago when I bought my 4200's.

If price is such an issue, get the 3800 x2's. They will still beat the pentium, hands down, and just oc them a little.


Tony

[RErender]

lol, the pentiums are not "poo"

the 830's and the x2 3800's run almost neck and neck, the 830's are about 20% cheaper and only around 5% slower.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...2-3800_10.html

as far as xeon 2x 2.8's vs. 830's we render a lot of frames and the 830's are right there with the 2.8's on most scenes even beating the 2.8's occasionally.

When buying several systems as opposed to a personal box one must also consider reliability, I know the AMD's are a lot better than they used to be but Intel still has an edge on my confidence rating.

Did I mention I'm typing this on my AMD 3200+? :P

[DaForce]

hehe ok well the performance may not be poo as such, but im just not a big fan of the way they were produced. Seems a bit slapdash to me.
But either way, what it all really comes down to is price/performance. So i guess the 830's are not too bad.

AMD's have been great for ages... just accept it... you know you want to.
Intel's arnt so high on "my" confidence rating.

Did I mention im typing this from a Celeron 1.7ghz