WHich is better 2.6c or 2.8 normal

[VitoVonAntwon]

Hello,

Question, I'm a lightwave and maya user and I"m wondering if buying a 2.6c (800 fsb) cpu or a 2.8 ghz cpu is better.
The price is about the same. ANyone have benchmarks with lightwave?

I'm wondering how much better is hyper threading is? LIghtwave does use threads.

BOth chips are going for about 300$ right now.

VitoVonAntwon

 

[lookouthere]

From the pricewatch, 2.6C is cheaper than 2.8B. And also, 2.6C is better and 2.8. But if you are not in budget, you should buy 2.8C with good HSF. Then you overclock 2.8C to whatever the max is. It is alot better than anything else.

 

[bgeh]

i'd get the 2.6c
this page may help you but it's not the same chip
Link

 

[lookouthere]

Yeah i mean you can get 2.6C. I am also planning to get one too.

 

[VitoVonAntwon]

Hey,

Thanks for the links they were good. IT's real weird, doesn't seem like the hyperthreading was helping the rendering benchmarks at all.

And the amd without the sseII are just pathetic.

I wonder how much more umph you get for the hyperthreading, maybe in the layout of LIghtwave, or mabye the viper renderer? It's probably
going to make more of a difference when they come out with lightwave 8, but i'm not sure.



Vito

 

[Canterwood]

The 2.6C should outperform the 2.8 due to the higher fsb speed 800mhx v 533 mhz.
Couple this with a Dual Channel DDR400 865/875 chipset and the performance will be even greater on the 2.6 cpu.
All the new 800mhz chips from 2.4 upwards, come with hyper threading too.

 

[duncan888]

I've got a 2.8C and I've managed to overclock it to 3.34Ghz with no problems, running 100% stable.
The 800FSB chips are good overclockers!
Plus when rendering the computer is still extremly responsive because it has hyperthreading.

 

[VitoVonAntwon]

Duncan,

Now that'g good information. Right there that's a gold mine. HOw many time now, I have to goto the task manager and set the lightwave image name set priority to low, so I can work on other things.

Do you have any benchmarks for lightwave? (do you use lightwave, you said you render)
Thats awesome news, I heard someone overclocked a 2.8c to 3.7ghz, with a zalman heatsink, and he said it was stable, not sure if thats true. I'm thinking of getting a 2.8c and putting a zalman onto it myself, you ever see a picture of one of those, they are huge.....

VitoVonAntwon