The engine Cinebench uses is the same as Cinema 4D it doesn't get anymore real than that, the faster the image gets processed the bigger the score you get how is that not meaningful?
OK let me put it this way, does a 5% higher CB score mean a 5% increase in Cinema 4D production times? If it does then (for that title at least) it means something, otherwise it's just a guide to tell which should perform better no?
I'm not debating Cinebench as a guide to how your PC would perform and it's a perfect tool for CPU reviewers to use to guide folks who do that kind of work on performance but the original argument implied that building a PC yourself to get just to get a high Cinebench score was something someone would do (They may build it based on scores they seen to run Cinema 4D but not just to run a benchmarking tool), that's all I'm saying.
I may not really use my 3930K to its fullest but I'm delighted with it,
[email protected], 13.4 score in Cinebench... the only thing I regret is not getting one sooner.
Good, I don't know why you're so defensive though. You talk as if I'm having a pop at all 3930k owners when all I'm asking is for MOST PEOPLE (i.e. not just you and your use of Cinema 4D) is the extra £200 worth it that's all...chill out man.
Like I said before SSD's in RAID is a waste of money nobody realistically needs 1GBs read/write speeds
No one?
Brilliant hypocrisy there my friend. You defend the need for 6 cores on the basis that a few high end specialist applications will take advantage of them but then can't think why anyone would need 1GB write speeds (and presumably the 1GB read speeds you get too)
So as a video encoder I would presume you work with rather large files? Do you not thinking opening a 2GB file in 2 seconds would be better than 4 seconds without RAID or 15 seconds with a Barracuda HD?
So you will pay £200 to [maybe] get 50% increase on rendering times but think I'm an idiot for spending £100 (the cost of the extra SDD) on something that would at least double the times it takes you to open and save large files?
The fact my PC boots up to a ready state in 50 seconds and shuts down in 5 (inc all boot screens) now means I can turn it off when I go to make something to eat, for example, whereas I'd leave it on before isn't an advantage?
Finally on the SSD, had I not bought the second one, I'd only have 120GB of primary drive space and I've gone past that mark already with the programmes I've installed which would have meant having to buy the more expensive 240GB version which is over £100 more anyway. So I could either pay £209 for an SSD that has enough space to be a primary hard drive or £200 on 2 of 120GB versions and get double the read/write times...what would you do?
But if you think I'd have been better with 1 120GB SSD and no more free space then I'll have to disagree.
Claiming people don't need super quick read/write times is stupid, haven't you ever thought what RAM was invented for? To remove the bottleneck between the CPU and the storage drive. Ideally you wouldn't have RAM at all and just one method of storage that could retain it's memory without a current but provide quick enough speeds to work with the CPU on the fly (MRAM was supposed to eventually replace RAM and the storage drive).
and GTX680 are massively overpriced atm so you're as wasteful at spending as we are, you just come across like you are bitterly regretting your choice and trying to kid yourself otherwise. Please do us all a favour and just buy one.
Again I've explained why I bought it, in other words I can justify it. You, it seems, can justify why you bought the 3930K which is fine, I have no issue with it as you obviously do a lot of rendering and movie work.
But unlike me, who has stated since the first post that some people can justify buying certain items, you seem to think that no one can justify using RAID SSDs or buying a GTX 680. You're the one being unreasonable here not me.
Back to the GTX 680, if you can show me a cheaper Nvidia GFX card that can run BF3 @ Ultra settings @ 1080p @ >60fps, I'll agree with you, otherwise you are ignoring my reasons for buying it and just applying personal opinion and are ironically sounding 'bitter' yourself my friend.