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Anybody planning on building a Dually AMD Gaming rig?

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Jhereg, Have you done any work with Photoshop? I am hoping to twist the arms of a few managers and setup 2 duallie Athlon rigs for Photoshop work. Just want to get an idea of its performance.

Considered 2 Mac G4s but the pricing was out of the question for systems that couldn't support company standard apps.

Windogg
 


<< Jhereg, Have you done any work with Photoshop? I am hoping to twist the arms of a few managers and setup 2 duallie Athlon rigs for Photoshop work. Just want to get an idea of its performance.

Considered 2 Mac G4s but the pricing was out of the question for systems that couldn't support company standard apps.

Windogg >>



Windogg,
Hiya .. I did do some tinkering with 5.5... it was certainly quicker than my friend's dual PIII 600.
I think that the AMD solution is very cost effective, stable and fast .


Sorry I can't give absolute numbers I think it really depends on what you are doing, the same friend I have does a lot of 3d modeling using Maya and a few other outrageously expensive apps.. he was VERY impressed with the speed of the system .
 
Personally, I don't see the merits of getting a dual system for gaming right now... some people may argue that SMP-enabled games as a standard are right above the horizon, but the horizon also has 2 GHZ+ CPU's out there... your current 1.2 will be outclassed by then. My advice: Save your money, buy a Geforce 3 Titanium, then build that dual rig in a few years.
 
I can't really see many gaming adopting SMP support in the near future. In fact not until multi processors are common in the desktop (and not server) environment.

Writing multi-threaded games/applications takes extra resources and very few people would benefit from them.
 
<<Anybody planning on building a Dually AMD Gaming rig?>>

That's a pretty moronic thing to do, as you can see in the replies, there are morons among us....morons: name one game, just one, that will take advantage of 2 procs and will multi-thread....
 


<< <<Anybody planning on building a Dually AMD Gaming rig?>>

That's a pretty moronic thing to do, as you can see in the replies, there are morons among us....morons: name one game, just one, that will take advantage of 2 procs and will multi-thread.... >>




Quake 3 supports SMP, moron.


Moron: 1. One who has a very limited vocabulary. 2. One who calls others morons because of his lack of intelligence. 3.synonym= Dogma.


 
Well, Anand's gonna be posting soon a Review of the K7 Tiger, and he's says he's gonna be doing it from the perspective on "whether it makes sense for the average enthusiast to go dual since it is a question that many ask now that MP systems are affordable." So that might help u decide.
 
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