Building a Boxx - question about processor

[BOXXlabs]

Hi William,

The 5472's will run about 30% faster than 5420's. And obviously, the speed difference will be most notable on multi-threaded operations such as rendering.

Is the 30% increase in performance worth $1000?

Are you a professional 3D/VFX artist who gets paid by the hour or by the job ?

If so, then let's go over the benefits a faster system can provide:

-you can dial-in higher quality settings to your renders
-you can perhaps deliver several versions to your customer instead of just the one they asked for
-you can ideate more freely and come up with more compelling and innovative designs
-you may actually be able to go meet your friends out for lunch without having to stay and babysit a render...


If you do alot of rendering and are buying this system as your primary rendering station, then you will almost certainy begin to reap the benefits of a faster system sooner than later. This is especially true if you do end up getting into doing REALFLOW or other fluid sim/physics sim work.

Cheers,

Adam
BOXXlabs

[mattmos]

Just noticed, its the 5462 and not the 5472 that he's talking about - so I'm guessing the performance increase isn't as great as 30%.

For an extra $1000, I was thinking you could get yourself a cheap render machine (Q6600 maybe) to go alongside your boxx workstation. It would almost certainly be a more worthwhile investment if you do a lot of rendering. But then you have to factor in networking/software licenses etc as well. Could set off seperate simulations on it too, so your main machine isn't so tied up.

[Pixelcarver]

I am building a box as well. And based from the research the dual qx9775's are the best for what we do. Overclockable to 4.0ghz stable.

[BOXXlabs]

my intel part number was off but my calculations are still correct.

2.8Ghz /1600 FSB = about 30% faster than 2.5Ghz / 1333 FSB

[omega343]

Thank you all for the replies.

Adam: 30% more performance would be nice, but right now I am not a professional but rather a student who wants a machine that can handle the programs with no problems. The benefits would surely be nice though. Anyway I look at it, this system will be a major upgrade from my current Athlon 3800x2 based system with 1gb ram. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

mattmos: That would be a good idea indeed. The only issue with that is I don't believe I have that extra cash. I will be broke after the Boxx (although well worth it I'm sure!). I will definitely keep that in mind for the future.

Pixelcarver: I don't think you can configure a Boxx computer with that processor option. Maybe you were thinking I was building my own system. I would do that, however with Boxx being optimized for vfx, and the awesome warranty and customer support, I can't pass that up. Not to mention I don't have the time to do so these days. Also, I may be wrong but wouldn't overclocking a Boxx void some kind of warranty, not to mention defeat the purpose of having a stable workstation?

[mattmos]

Adam - fair enough, I don't mean to make assumptions. I was just surprised by your figures - It's pretty impressive scaling that the .3 ghz difference and bus increase equals 30% in real world performance.

[BOXXlabs]

yup. actually about 20% comes from the FSB speed bump and about 10% comes from the clock speed bump.

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