UPDATED BENCHMARK (ITS FASTER I PROMISE)

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..But - it still pretty much expensive to move on to this damn good platform, as you need high clocked DDR2 RAM + new motherboard + and of course CPU, which are just paper-announced right now.

They're not 'paper announced' they're available...
Varoius reviews I've read say the older chipset and older DDR work very well with only a very small speed penalty - still of course they weren't testing vray

[Paul Oblomov]

Well I don't see 'em at my local store

[Candelero]

Dual dual core Opteron 285's, 4 GB memory, Win XP 64

[Spikeadeliv]

Thanks Candelero

Thanks Candelero, just realised my mistake and wondered how long it would take to move.

Spikeadeliv

[timmatron]

What is the general time difference between 1.47 and 1.5? I'm just wondering what the time on the X6800 would be with 1.47. Looks pretty darn nice.

[lukx]

okey now I can die here are the test of 6700 with stock and different OC. Thanks lopri form anandtech .
E6700
Stock (2.66GHz, 10x266) / DDR2-800 (2:3): 3mins 53.5secs
OC (3.60GHz, 10x360) / DDR2-900 (4:5): 2mins 53.7secs

Stock with DDR2-1066 (1:2): 3mins 52.8secs

and aslo from lopri different 6600:

E6600
Stock (2.40GHz, 9x266) / DDR2-800 (2:3): 4mins 18.2secs
OC (3.60GHz, 9x400) / DDR2-800 (1:1): 2mins 52.8secs

Stock with DDR2-1066 (1:2): 4mins 18.4secs

[serge]

can yougive us some info about mobo and cooling

Very interested time !

[lukx]

now I have to make a decision if it's worth to get 6700 . WHat do you think?

[lukx]

can yougive us some info about mobo and cooling

Very interested time !

mainboard is Asus P5W-DH. About cooling I don't know what the guy used but he's into OC'ing so I guess it is something big .

[Geertvdp]

I don't think it is worth the exra 220€, but that's just me..

You can aparently overclock as good on the E6600 as the E6700, so that's no motivation.
And the E6600 should easily run at 2.66ghz, if you want the speed of a E6700....

Your tests also show, once again, how little impact the faster, more expansive ram has on the rendertime.

[CCS]

I'm no expert, but I don't think this is the scene to test RAM. This is a processor testing scene. If you want to test the RAM, let's scatter 10,000 trees in there.

[Erik de Graaf]

Hi,

I used the scene from askhamdesign.

CPU core 2 duo 6600@2,4 Ghz(stock)
2 Gb ram 800 Mhz
Intel P5B motherboard

[percydaman]

Pow. Lightning fast. Man the woodcrests are going to mop the floor with everything. AMD needs to get those quad cores out stat!!

Just had to make the benchmark for max6 and not 5.1 .

Well at least my cinebench score was 934!

omg crossbow, there's a name from out of the past..

[percydaman]

BTW, I think we need a completely new max scene. When I created this one, I never intended it to be rendered this fast! hehe

[crossbow]

Hey percy!

Ya, you're running into the same problem I had with the original 3dluvr max benchmarks! What started out taking 20 minutes, ended up finishing in less then 1! Really gives you an idea of technology advancement over time!

If anyone figures out how to get the benchmark to run in max5.1, send me a pm .

My E6600 is pushing 3.21 ghz now and I'm really curious as to its performance.