How do these specs look? 2rd generation Intel Core i7-3930 3.20GHz processor; delivers outstanding processing power for your system 64GB of DDR3 memory; tons of resources to provide awesome task handling performance NVIDIA Quadro 4000 GPU; astonishing graphics using 2GB of video memory 2TB hard dr…

never had a crash on my i7 machine… edit: Peter, I think I need to change my avatar :confused: We wore the same dress to the party…

OK, must just be my home made machines. Excellent style, we should do a MIR/PG collaboration sometime :wink:

I frequently crashed on i7 and older machines…I used the high end gaming rigs for over 10 years. now I’m on Xeons and ECC it has made a big difference in terms of stability.

Personally, I went with the dual Xeon setup because its a lot of power in one box. You can definitely get more speed per core out of a nice i7, but to equal the number of cores in a dual xeon setup, you’d have to get 3 computers. To me, that means 3x the problems, and 3x less space. While I love…

Our i7’s never crash, i’ve not even seen a hardware related crash in over 5 years. I dont think the slight speed increase from xeons is worth it for what we do either - i’d rather have a couple more boxes for animations.

Totally :slight_smile: A handful of us will see you at SOA! My i7 is a home-made too… Wonder whats going on there with yours then… [image] Vrmesh from Max? UV problems OK, must just be my home made machines. Excellent style, we should do a MIR/PG collaboration sometime :wink:

I love the i7, I have a mix of xeons and i7, ranging from i7 2600k and i7 3930k to xeon x5650. Though xeons suppose to have double the cores i7 under overclock performs just as well. Even today, with my old 2600k and overclock of 4.5 ghz, they still rock during rendering, and they are only 4 physica…

This talk of stability is interesting. My hunch is that those of you with stability issues on your overclocked i7 machines it’s coming down to too aggressive overclocking, dodgy settings or dodgy hardware. I have had something like 6 or more overclocked high-end i7 machines over the years, all built…

We are generally moving over to XEONs for workstations these days. i7s do make good cheap render boxes.

[image] Material Override Exclude This talk of stability is interesting. My hunch is that those of you with stability issues on your overclocked i7 machines it’s coming down to too aggressive overclocking, dodgy settings or dodgy hardware. I have had something like 6 or more overclocked high-end …

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Totally A handful of us will see you at SOA!

My i7 is a home-made too… Wonder whats going on there with yours then…

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