I'm in the process of specifying some new render nodes.
I know that the X2's are the hot ticket right now but I'm wondering if anyone has tested any of the Intel D series (D 930, D 940) with hyperthreading. They seem to do pretty well against the x2 4800 and are similar in price for a prebuilt system. See these bench marks:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/...lt/page16.html
I've read that these chips can run four threads. It seems like you would get four buckets per chip with these. Two from the dual core and two more with the hyper threading. I've always had good luck with hyper threading and get 4 buckets with my dual xeons.
It looks like the prices on the intels have come down (I guess I expected they would). I'm also wondering if this will lower the cost of the X2's soon. Has anyone noticed?
Does everyone still feel that AMD is the best bang for the buck considering the current Intel prices?
I know that the X2's are the hot ticket right now but I'm wondering if anyone has tested any of the Intel D series (D 930, D 940) with hyperthreading. They seem to do pretty well against the x2 4800 and are similar in price for a prebuilt system. See these bench marks:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/...lt/page16.html
I've read that these chips can run four threads. It seems like you would get four buckets per chip with these. Two from the dual core and two more with the hyper threading. I've always had good luck with hyper threading and get 4 buckets with my dual xeons.
It looks like the prices on the intels have come down (I guess I expected they would). I'm also wondering if this will lower the cost of the X2's soon. Has anyone noticed?
Does everyone still feel that AMD is the best bang for the buck considering the current Intel prices?
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