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Performance Kick With a 3.4 Extreme?
Would I get a rendering performance kick-up if I replaced my 3.2 Prescott with a 2mb L2 cache 3.4 Extreme Edition P4 proc? Just curious…
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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Yes, you will.
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I thinking a smaler investment will tide me over until the dual-core Xeon gear comes out a bit cheaper.
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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Its not worth the money for the performance kick you would get, you didn’t mention what CPU socket you have, for the grand you would spend for the extreme, you could get a 3.8ghz($600) prescott if you had a 775 socket, or a motherboard and processor for a grand.
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Yep, Just looking at it again. The P4 875P Extreme only has 512k L2. Not sure if an older dual Xeon 2.8 533fsb might be faster on the rendering and encoding than my single Prescott 3.2 DDR400/800fsb. So many choices and so little money to spend….
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
Australia -
[Peter Corbett] “Not sure if an older dual Xeon 2.8 533fsb might be faster on the rendering and encoding than my single Prescott 3.2 DDR400/800fsb”
Processor speed has more effect, the dual Xeon 2.8HT could average out like a single 4.3g-4.8g depending on how much the App coding uses dual processors, the memory bus speed makes a difference but not as much as people think, I’ve done upgrades for people where I’ve used their old PC2100 temp memory, and didn’t notice very much difference in performance in many tasks as alot of rendering is CPU intensive, vice memory intensive, another thing that helps is disk transfer speeds particularly with RealTime editing.
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