Hello, I am looking at building a new dual socket workstation for fluid dynamics simulation and 3d rendering.
My question is simple, what CPU\Socket type is best for performance in this environment?
I know that i7 is a good platform for this but is far too expensive, I need a good value solution (£600-800 for the core components, memory\board\cpu's)
For the rendering I am thinking of using intel render nodes to help speed things up further, however I read that due to the way that floating point ops are done on AMD, the rendered results can be slightly different to an intel system... is this true? Another area I need to look out for is bottle necks, what FSB and Memory should I be looking for?
I really want the most 'pow to my pound'!
Cheers
bitseq
My question is simple, what CPU\Socket type is best for performance in this environment?
I know that i7 is a good platform for this but is far too expensive, I need a good value solution (£600-800 for the core components, memory\board\cpu's)
For the rendering I am thinking of using intel render nodes to help speed things up further, however I read that due to the way that floating point ops are done on AMD, the rendered results can be slightly different to an intel system... is this true? Another area I need to look out for is bottle necks, what FSB and Memory should I be looking for?
I really want the most 'pow to my pound'!
Cheers
bitseq