Dual Processors

[Sayonara]

I'm running 3DS Max 5 and Maya 5, and I'm curious to know if home dual processor systems are really worth the extra cash.

 

I'd heard they only increase rendering speed by a small amount and it's cheaper - at home - to just buy a better processor.

 

Anybody had experience with this?

[matthew]

Depending on how serious you are about animation, it'd be a wise move to purchase a video card specifically designed for a graphics-intensive machine (they're anywhere from 800$-2400$ US). Anyways, running two processors does speed up process execution time quite a bit. Once you get into heavy animations sitting around with a P2.4 or an A2600+ won't get you anywhere at a decent rate. When i had my dual mp 2000's on a tyan board, max4 seemed to run a lot faster than when i had it on my 3200+ (i overclock things, a wee bit). Anyways, thats just my expierence with the whole set up... i'd run over to tomshardware.com and check out benchmarks and what not for further backing.

[Guest Mr Blonde]

Another way of getting the performance of dual processors with out the cost is getting a processor which supports hyperthreading (p4 3.06 ghz in conjunction with rdram does more will in the future) which fakes having 2 processors and is practically as good and much cheaper - on the downside both hyperthreading and dual processors only work if the application support it