to x2core or not x2core that is the question

[FunkyCowie]

tis nobler...

Yah well... uh... right I do quite a bit of 3D work I have had dual cpu machines before and they are pretty cool for rendering and I have a little renderfarm going . I'm purchasing a new system for watching movies etc but in its spare time its going to be a render node... now I'm thinking if I get a single cpu system it should be fine for rendering because nothing else will be running on it at the time of rendering or am I wrong and would benefit more from running a dual core cpu?

 

[gurusan]

dual core makes a significant difference if you are going to be rendering things as most programs of that sort have multicore support

 

[wellibob]

Simple answer is why have 1, when 2 can do more !!!

 

[maranello168]

given the price atm, i would say give dual core a try

 

[manoz]

What renderer are you using? All the good ones like vray, mental ray and render man and even Maya's own renderer benefit from dual core as they use their multithread abilities. 3dsmax 9 is 64-bit Native, whether its default scanline renderer will support dual cores, I am yet to find out. So there is no point going single core really!