which perf improvements with a new PC?

[Frederic Baumann]

Ok, thanks John and all.

I will have to look further at Rendertest data (I did it quickly yet, but unfortunately I could not find any row with my current CPU – an Intel P8400 @ 2.26 GHz). I only found the 2010 version of the test, I should certainly dig for the HDV version of it.

I am impressed by the huge differences I could see, even between different i7 CPUs.

Best, and thanks again all,
Frédéric

[Norman Willis]

The very fastest ones have solid state hard drives (SSD). If you are made of money or do intensive 3D work (time is money), that is the way to go. But if not, simply getting a separate C:\ and D:\ will go a long way.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Mike Tobias]

So should the SSD be used at the drive for the temp files, if given the choice?

SSDs are coming down in price. I picked up two 2nd generation 60GB OCZ last week for $100 each. They are not the fastest out now, but I already had one so knew it was already much faster than a harddrive.

[John Rofrano]

The very fastest ones have solid state hard drives (SSD). If you are made of money or do intensive 3D work (time is money), that is the way to go

I have a friend who has 2 SSD’s in a RAID 0 for his C: drive. He can load the Eclipse IDE (which is a large Java programming development environment that takes 12 seconds to load on my system) in only 3 seconds! Very impressive.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
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