Best CPU??

[Mike Thompson]

Don’t buy the extreme i7, it’s hugely expensive for only an incremental improvement over the 920. My 2.6ghz 920 runs happily at 3.6ghz just by taking the multiplier to 21 x

Search around, find some reliable overclock settings that others have used on a certain motherboard, and off you go. Don’t think that overclocking is just for experts. I’m no expert my system is a lot faster than stock

[John Rofrano]

> My 2.6ghz 920 runs happily at 3.6ghz just by taking the multiplier to 21 x

What are you cooling it with? The Intel stock heat sink or a 3rd party one?

> what’s faster to run CS4-AE… Also what is the best graphics card within reasonalbe price range

You should really be asking these questions on the Cow’s Adobe After Effects forum. They will have first hand experience.

The problem with multiple cores is having enough things to do to keep them all busy. If you perform a function that is single-threaded like preview, then the Core i7 Extreme 3.33ghz will preform better because it will do that one thing faster on one core. If, however, you are concerned with rendering time which can be massively multi-threaded, then the 8 core Xeon X5550 @2.67GHz will outperform the Core i7 because it has more compute power available across the 8 cores.

I have been pondering this exact thing so I don’t have any hard and fast answers for you because I don’t have them for myself. I have a Quad Core Extreme 2.66GHz and I’m not convinced that moving up to a Core i7 Quad will justify the $800 price tag of a new CPU, Mobo, and Memory. I’m thinking the next step for me is 8 cores so I would vote for the dual Xeon’s as being a better step to take. But this is just one man’s opinion. 😉

~jr

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