A new system!

Samione · 17 May 2007 at 20:01

Hey guys, this is my first ever post here on overclockers, i've been wanting to build a new system for a while now, and for the last week or two i've just been doing research, well, mostly reading posts on this forum... Basically, i'm into 3D art, and want a new system that can render at "Uber" speeds, handle loads of polys, work with high res images, and also play some new dx10 games when they come out. I'm sick of waiting 3 hours for a scene with GI, caustics, and all that sort of stuff to render, and getting slowdown from large image files. I guess it's like a workstation/entertainment hybrid that i'm after. I've read so much stuff about new technologies, processors coming out, I just don't know what to do. It seems the more I read, the more confused I get. Any light you guys can shed on this would be so so helpful! My budget I guess will be around £1500

Jaffa_Cake · 17 May 2007 at 20:02

Hey, welcome to the forums ( 3rd time today! )

Will you be needing a monitor/keyboard/mouse optical drives also?

annnnd will you be overclocking it much?

Samione · 17 May 2007 at 20:07

Yeah i'll be needing optical drives, and a keyboard and mouse, maybe even a wacom if I have some cash left over, and i've thought about overclocking, i'm completely inexperienced but i'd like to have the potential to do it safely with my new system.

Will_3rd · 17 May 2007 at 20:08

Hi, and welcome to the forums (claimed!)

As for a keyboard mouse Microsoft and Logitech do good ones.

Samione · 17 May 2007 at 20:13

Hah that was fast! it all looks great even under my budgets aswell. One question though, I was thinking , along the lines of a quadcore for my proc, do I wait for the AMD phenom or buy the intel one?

Jaffa_Cake · 17 May 2007 at 20:15

Samione said:
Hah that was fast! it all looks great even under my budgets aswell. One question though, I was thinking something more along the lines of a quadcore for my proc, is that overkill? and if it isn't do I wait for the AMD phenom or buy core 2 extreme?

The Xeon is a quad core

*nods*

Samione · 17 May 2007 at 20:16

hah, yeah I just looked it up on here, and found that out, but tried to edit my post before I looked like an idiot, but i guess it didn't work

Will_3rd · 17 May 2007 at 20:16

Samione said:
One question though, I was thinking something more along the lines of a quadcore for my proc, is that overkill?

The Xeon is speced is a Kentsfield Quad Core CPU

Samione said:
if it isn't do I wait for the AMD phenom or buy core 2 extreme?

Not heard much about the new AMD stuff, but it won't be out for a while. Would be quite silly to buy Core 2 Extreme IMO, the clocking potential is quite limited really.

Jaffa_Cake · 17 May 2007 at 20:16

Samione said:
hah, yeah I just looked it up on here, and found that out, but tried to edit my post before I looked like an idiot, but i guess it didn't work

Im too fast for you

and Will is too fast for me. Steal my thread

Samione · 17 May 2007 at 20:17

I was fooled by the low low price

Samione · 17 May 2007 at 20:17

is it true quad core, or just two seperate dual cores?

Will_3rd · 17 May 2007 at 20:18

Jaffa_Cake said:
I'm too fast for you and Will is too fast for me. Steal my thread

/pats oneself on the back

Samione said:
is it true quad core, or just two seperate dual cores?

Two dual core chips on one die.

Samione · 17 May 2007 at 20:20

ok, is it worth spending £200 more a quad core extreme?

Jaffa_Cake · 17 May 2007 at 20:21

Samione said:
ok, is it worth spending £200 more a quad core extreme?

Not at this moment in time. The Intel prices will just about be halfing in 2 months. See here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17729305

Edit: I think thats some patting for me

Will_3rd · 17 May 2007 at 20:22

Samione said:
ok, is it worth spending £200 more a quad core extreme?

Not really in my opinion considering the Xeon can be clocked to same stock speeds as the extreme CPUs.

Samione · 17 May 2007 at 20:22

ok, well I probably won't have the cash for a few months anyway.

Samione · 17 May 2007 at 20:25

thanks for all the help guys, one more thing, I don't suppose any of you know where I can find benchmarks of similar systems, comparisons etc, preferrably whilst performing similar tasks that I will be? just so I can get an idea of how much performance increase I will get in terms of time, not just floating point operations or whatever.