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danb

08-07-2003, 03:43 AM

I know this is a touchy subject so please be objective. i have a good amount of money saved up to buy my computer which i hope will help launch my freelance career. i am investing all my resources in cinema4d 8.x and am currently running it on an old P4 machine with a slow 32mb agp4x ati radeon. i have approximately 1200$ to spend on a or many machines. i am pretty familiar wiht computer specs for other software but not for cinema4d. can some of you give some friendly advice. The most important question is should i get many older computers to run a small, small render farm. or one mama jamma machine to do everything. i am perticullarly interested in multithreading as i will be purchasing real flow 2.5 and using multiple processors for that. Does cinema support multiple processors and do those processors have to be in one machine or can it be computed on a network. Aargh so many questions and so clueless. :annoyed:

Srek

08-07-2003, 07:01 AM

Hi,
CINEMA does support up to 16 CPUs in one system. It can not use other systems CPUs. Net Renderer will enable you to distribute the rendering of an animation to several systems, but a single frame has to be rendered by a single client.
Personaly i would go for a 2.8 GHz P4 with Hyperthreading, 1 GB RAM, ATI 9800 or similar NVidia. I like the HT CPUS because the GUI works as smooth as on real dual CPU systems and the increased render performance is worth something too.

Cheers
Srek

danb

08-07-2003, 07:35 AM

thanks for the reply SREK. you mentioned hyperthreading compared to dual processors. would hyperthreading be faster than an old dual xeon workstation. say xeons running at 1.2ghz?

Srek

08-07-2003, 07:40 AM

A dual Xeon 1.2 won't be as fast as a singe P4 2.8 HT imho. I can't compare them directly but the way higher clockrate, HT and the faster memory interface should carry the P4 way beyond a dual 1.2 Xeon.
Cheers
Srek

danb

08-07-2003, 08:00 AM

do you think P4 is faster then the amd.

Srek

08-07-2003, 09:14 AM

Hi,
at the same clockspeed the AMD should be faster, but AMD processors have a lower clockspeed then Intel processors.
Thats why AMD invented a factor to compare those. An Athlon XP 2600+ is roughly equal to a P4 2.6 GHz even though the AMD is running with a lower clockspeed (2.133 GHz).
The CINEBENCH 2003 should give you believable results regarding the processor performance with CINEMA.

Cheers
Srek

brammelo

08-07-2003, 09:57 AM

take a look at the following thread:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46752

imashination

08-07-2003, 10:36 AM

http://www.imashination.com/bench.html
http://www.imashination.com/hardware.html

Enjoy.

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