Reggie - great analysis of AMD vs Intel.. I had me a few amds, and now after reading all the reviews it's always intel.. So I keept on buying intels, and yes - there are always those stupid hickups - I had a more than once problem and hitting ctrl alt delete took several minutes to comply - on a system with 24 gigs ram and a i7 920 proc..
Basically the best upgrade I did was two SSDs in raid 0 - I'm getting 7.9 windows performance index on the disk transfer rates, the cpu is 7.5 ..
Anyway upgraded two old pcs with SSDs, and now they all perform similarly..
Well after this analysis, I know I will take a look at AMDs a bit more.. It just feels crazy stupid when you waste like 4k euro or $$ on a machine, and the thing still has it's own stupid little hickups, it just makes you feel there is no solution to that except, maybe a different CPU architecture.. I really hope AMD starts making some new breakthrougs - I mean they did join with ATI, the gaming cards are fast - but we do not care about ati because no gpu rendering for us there..
Still, the best upgrade you can do for your computer are the SSDs, it's always the slowest component slowing your computer down, and it shows, I basically made the old dual core PCs run faster than a i7 (on a laptop with a regular HDD)
and wait for a 12 core intel running 6 ghz min (so you can get single threaded performance
) Single thread performance is pretty important still, when you use a move tool in your 3d software, it's going to use only one core - why should it split it up in 8 hyperthreaded cores - actually you get half of performance of a single core / or am I mistaken, anyway.. nice thread keep it up
