This is my first post on this forum...
Anyway, currently I'm enjoying a Pentium 4 northwood 3 ghz powered PC. But I've started collecting thoughts and making plans for an upgrade, maybe in 3-4 months (i would suppose the new standards such as PCI express,DDRII and so on will be providing much better performance than now).
Right now here's what I got:
Northwood 3.0 @ 3.7 Ghz with a Jet 4 cooler from Coolermaster (a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned)
Asus p4c800e deluxe
2x512 Mb OCZ 3700 Gold Re.2 (now at 240 FSB, 2.5, 3, 3, 5 latencies, in Dual Channel of course)
Asus V9950 Ultra (Geforce fx 5900 Ultra, clocked at 510/975; modded to Quadro 3000 in a second XP install)
a 120 gb Western Digital SATA
all in a Xaser II aliminum case...
I'm a bit confused with all the new CPUs and especially sockets (thank you AMD for some extra confusion on my side
). Anyway, although I love my PC, I really think that I could do much better for the future...and also of course money is a problem, as I'm kinda a student in Germany.
I basically use the PC for gaming, as well as heavy CG graphics abuse (3dsmax). Lately, I'm only playing thou... I have been checking benchmarks for some time now and still can't decide what CPU to get. I am kinda biased a bit toward AMD's high-end, even though I've been always an Intel fan. On the other hand, the FX and Pentium EE are a bit high-priced in my opinion, and the performance difference is not that big to make up for the extra bucks. So, so far I'm sold on Opterons, maybe dual 240 or something.
But I have not been able to find much comprisons between the different CPU families, I mean Xeon vs Opteron vs FX vs EE and so on. Would the workstation/server Xeon or Opteron perform on par with the FX and EE for example? I read somewhere, that the server chips are not doing great in normal desktop applications, which is hard for me to believe.
On the other hand, I estimate it would cost pretty much the same to get an FX or dual Opterons...Meaning I'll also need a new motherboard... If I decide on an EE, i won't have that problem. Or maybe the best buy would be a standard desktop CPU? HAving in mind that a 1200 euro system like mine outperforms most professional graphics workstations in SPECviewperf, and does a good job with rendering and also the games run really good for now, maybe a standard CPU isnt all that bad... And having in mind I live in germany makes stuff a bit pricier, though I plan on ordering from the USA
Could you help me out??? Some comparisons between all those CPU (64, 64FX, EE, Xeon, Opteron, Pentium4) would be great
Also, I just got a new Enermax 465 power supply...do you think it would be able to power such a dual CPU system together with a good card (Geforce 6800 gt or Ultra). I'm kinda sick of bying PSUs
Ooohhh, all those money...
Anyway, currently I'm enjoying a Pentium 4 northwood 3 ghz powered PC. But I've started collecting thoughts and making plans for an upgrade, maybe in 3-4 months (i would suppose the new standards such as PCI express,DDRII and so on will be providing much better performance than now).
Right now here's what I got:
Northwood 3.0 @ 3.7 Ghz with a Jet 4 cooler from Coolermaster (a masterpiece as far as I'm concerned)
Asus p4c800e deluxe
2x512 Mb OCZ 3700 Gold Re.2 (now at 240 FSB, 2.5, 3, 3, 5 latencies, in Dual Channel of course)
Asus V9950 Ultra (Geforce fx 5900 Ultra, clocked at 510/975; modded to Quadro 3000 in a second XP install)
a 120 gb Western Digital SATA
all in a Xaser II aliminum case...
I'm a bit confused with all the new CPUs and especially sockets (thank you AMD for some extra confusion on my side
). Anyway, although I love my PC, I really think that I could do much better for the future...and also of course money is a problem, as I'm kinda a student in Germany. I basically use the PC for gaming, as well as heavy CG graphics abuse (3dsmax). Lately, I'm only playing thou... I have been checking benchmarks for some time now and still can't decide what CPU to get. I am kinda biased a bit toward AMD's high-end, even though I've been always an Intel fan. On the other hand, the FX and Pentium EE are a bit high-priced in my opinion, and the performance difference is not that big to make up for the extra bucks. So, so far I'm sold on Opterons, maybe dual 240 or something.
But I have not been able to find much comprisons between the different CPU families, I mean Xeon vs Opteron vs FX vs EE and so on. Would the workstation/server Xeon or Opteron perform on par with the FX and EE for example? I read somewhere, that the server chips are not doing great in normal desktop applications, which is hard for me to believe.
On the other hand, I estimate it would cost pretty much the same to get an FX or dual Opterons...Meaning I'll also need a new motherboard... If I decide on an EE, i won't have that problem. Or maybe the best buy would be a standard desktop CPU? HAving in mind that a 1200 euro system like mine outperforms most professional graphics workstations in SPECviewperf, and does a good job with rendering and also the games run really good for now, maybe a standard CPU isnt all that bad... And having in mind I live in germany makes stuff a bit pricier, though I plan on ordering from the USA
Could you help me out??? Some comparisons between all those CPU (64, 64FX, EE, Xeon, Opteron, Pentium4) would be great
Also, I just got a new Enermax 465 power supply...do you think it would be able to power such a dual CPU system together with a good card (Geforce 6800 gt or Ultra). I'm kinda sick of bying PSUs
Ooohhh, all those money...
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