Hi there,
I am wanting to buy a work horse computer for 3danimation and photoshop illustration. I am on a tight budget so I have decided to go for a system that I can upgrade throughout the next year by adding in 2gig ram sticks to the machine, getting a quadcore cpu, and extra hard drives.
I first thought of getting a cheap intel 2160 cpu and then upgrading to a q6600 in the future but I have heard that amd is continuing its chipset well into the future so if I got a 4000x2 now I could upgrade to a quad amd that could surpass the q6600 down the line?
Do you think that going down the amd path could actually turn out to be beneficial? If intel is going to change its chipset in the near future and amd isn’t than surely a decent quad core cpu from the green team will come out that will perform well for sometime?
Also I have been trying to decide between getting ddr2 or ddr3 ram. If get a intel 2160 or an amd 4000x2 will they run ddr3? And is there a definite difference when running a quad core with ddr3?
Cheerz to anyone that helps =)
I am wanting to buy a work horse computer for 3danimation and photoshop illustration. I am on a tight budget so I have decided to go for a system that I can upgrade throughout the next year by adding in 2gig ram sticks to the machine, getting a quadcore cpu, and extra hard drives.
I first thought of getting a cheap intel 2160 cpu and then upgrading to a q6600 in the future but I have heard that amd is continuing its chipset well into the future so if I got a 4000x2 now I could upgrade to a quad amd that could surpass the q6600 down the line?
Do you think that going down the amd path could actually turn out to be beneficial? If intel is going to change its chipset in the near future and amd isn’t than surely a decent quad core cpu from the green team will come out that will perform well for sometime?
Also I have been trying to decide between getting ddr2 or ddr3 ram. If get a intel 2160 or an amd 4000x2 will they run ddr3? And is there a definite difference when running a quad core with ddr3?
Cheerz to anyone that helps =)