UPDATED BENCHMARK (ITS FASTER I PROMISE)

[percydaman]

the mobo only has 4 mem slots. That means I either had to go 4 gig or 8 gig... who the hell can afford 8 gigs of memory...not me...

[TRGraphics]

Heres mine:

Intel Dual 2.8 Hyperthreading enabled
2 gig of memory

[Syclone1]

Syclone1 et all:
Can you guys with dual core or similar AMD drop another gig of ram into those machines for test purposes? Do you have 4 slot MB with those?

thanks.

I mite be dropping more ram intot the AMD x2 but prob not till the end of the month.

-dave

[askhamdesign]

Missing a map "Plane01DiffuseMap.tga"

Hi im missing a map with the benchmark scene "Plane01DiffuseMap.tga"

Can you drop it up for download?

Thanks

Simon

[percydaman]

you dont need it. it was a map max created by baking. I purposely left out textures in the benchmark.

[askhamdesign]

ok sorry, thanks for clearin that up!

[askhamdesign]

This was with one of my machins below but with 1024Mb.



One thing I did notice, the time that it gives you in the backburner task Sumary said 5:52min????

[percydaman]

ya that probably includes loading of the scene file, and other stuff.

[meanadam]

So.... Here we are again.... Dual xeons vs. AMD or X2.

Which is most cost effective? It seems AMD X2 costs 2x?
Win64 must make a difference?

I am hoping somebody is bored enough at work today to graph these resutls. I would also like to see a chart of $ per time.

Also - nobody has a P4 Extreme (840)?

[percydaman]

It looks like the Pentium 840 extreme edition and the AMD x2 4800 are pretty comparable in price and performance.

[Dynedain]

It looks like the Pentium 840 extreme edition and the AMD x2 4800 are pretty comparable in price and performance.

For Radiosity, yeah. Discreet throws in a bunch of Intel-optimizations in Max.

Wish they'd do it for AMD as well

[TRGraphics]

According to that chart the 4200 & 4400 are the same. I was considering the 4400 but according to those numbers its not worth the extra cost. Thanks for posting that.

I really like the vray numbers more then the radiosity figures. Thats what I'm really interested in. Real world numbers for vray since thats what we use.

[percydaman]

well I just bought the 4200. they both have the same clock speed, but the 4400 has 1mb of lvl 2 cache while the 4200 has 512k lvl 2 cache. So in certain situations, Im sure the 4400 will outperform the 4200.

[TRGraphics]

Percy,

What size power supply is required and also which motherboard did you choose. I can't seem to find anyting on the power supply other than 24 pin connector being needed.

I'm ordering two of these tomorow for my farm.

[percydaman]

heres everything I bought:

2 Thermaltake Thunderblade A1909 80mm Sleeve Green LED Light Cooling Fan - Retail
Item #: N82E16811999124 $11.98
1 ABIT AN8-ULTRA Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Item #: N82E16813127212 $129.00
1 eVGA 256-P2-N383-TX Geforce 6800 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
Item #: N82E16814130231 $264.00
1 ENERMAX Whisper II EG565P-VE FMA2.0 ATX12V 535W Power Supply - Retail
Item #: N82E16817103512 $88.99
1 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4200BVBOX - Retail
Item #: N82E16819103547 $527.00
2 OCZ Value Series 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model OCZ4002048V3DC-K - Retail
Item #: N82E16820146841 $372.02
1 TEAC Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive IBM PC or compatible system Floppy disk drive controller or connector Floppy disk drive interface cable 4MB RAM — minimum DOS or Windows®3.1X or Wi - OEM
Item #: N82E16821103113 $13.99
2 SAMSUNG SpinPoint P Series SP0812C 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
Item #: N82E16822152018 $120.00
1 Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM
Item #: N82E16835100007 $7.99
1 Thermaltake Silent Boost K8 80mm Ball Cooling Fan/Heatsink - Retail
Item #: N82E16835106036 $29.99
1 Microsoft Windows XP Professional X64 Edition 1 package - OEM
Item #: N82E16837102034 $149.95
1 AMC 8" 4-Pin Power Cable Splitter Model Y Power Cable - OEM
Item #: N82E16812101203 $0.00
Item(s) shipped from TN Tracking Number:
1 COOLER MASTER Centurion 530 RC-530-SSN1 Black Aluminum Bezel, SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
Item #: N82E16811119076 $68.99
Subtotal: $1,773.90
What's this? Tax: $0.00
Shipping: $85.14
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