Xeon chip stuffs up to 18 cores

[eyepiz]

or they could be for Apples trash can looking workstations..I don't think those are Dual Xeon's anymore.

[vlado]

those 8 cores still wont fire up when Max is rendering with 64-cores, so I think...

They will, they are perfectly usable for other applications. Also you can, f.e. run two instances of 3ds Max, each on half the cores.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

They will, they are perfectly usable for other applications. Also you can, f.e. run two instances of 3ds Max, each on half the cores.

Best regards,
Vlado

As maya exports all would vray be able to somehow isntance second standalone and share assets etc etc and still use all cores? :- )

[vlado]

As maya exports all would vray be able to somehow isntance second standalone and share assets etc etc and still use all cores? :- )

You can always run a V-Ray DR spawner on the same machine and use it for local DR; there's nothing extra that we need to do about it.

Best regards,
Vlado