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    Dual Xeon or i7

    Posted by Randy Mcwilson on July 3, 2011 at 7:21 pm

    Considering building a new After Effects beast for 5.5.

    Anyone with real experience with a dual Xeon versus an i7 system?

    I am planning an SSD for system drive, another SSD media scratch disk, and striped array for storage.

    12 GB ram (estimated).

    Quadro 580 or better GPU.

    Intel Xeon E3-1230 Sandy Bridge 3.2GHz

    thanks for advice and observations/input.
    -Randy

    Eternity…don’t miss it for the world.

    Randy Mcwilson replied 15 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Kevin Camp

    July 4, 2011 at 5:16 am

    I’d go with the xeon’s even if it meant sacrificing an ssd. The i7’s are getting better, but the xeon’s are still faster, and CPU speed is still the biggest performance determiner for ae.

    Kevin Camp
    Senior Designer
    KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    July 4, 2011 at 6:01 am

    I agree with Kevin- working on both i7 and Xeon I would choose the Xeon.

    Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
    Senior VFX Artist

  • Randy Mcwilson

    July 8, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    Thanks for the advice, now I am wondering, after doing a little research about the new multicore AMDs, about dual Xeon vs dual AMD (opterons). They have 6 and 12 core processors.

    I just don’t know anyone locally with a dual AMD machine doing VFX work.

    Eternity…don’t miss it for the world.

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