What to get?

[Eldorado]

I looking for any recomendations on computers that will allow times 8 multithreding. My ICrap G5 1.8Ghz, 1gb memory is solower then ever.(and4-5years old.) :compbeati

[Captain Obvious]

Quad Power Mac G5?

[RedBull]

Not sure about the Apples, on the PC side...
AMD Dual, Dual cores is the only way to go for 8 threads..
Opterons, 940 pin with Tyan dual proc mainboard...

AMD Dual Cores work best with 4, Dual Duals work best with 8 threads..

[Eldorado]

thanks RB.

[Eldorado]

Quad Power Mac G5?
:cursin: budget is an issue. Besides spending $16,000 to get the ram so it works to the best of its ability.
this is to captian obvious. no offense

[Eldorado]

Quad Power Mac G5?
:cursin: budget is an issue. Besides spending $16,000 to get the ram so it works to the best of its ability. no offense:thumbsup:

[Captain Obvious]

You don't need to buy 16 gigabytes of RAM from Apple. Just get the stock amount, and add more later.

[toby]

You don't even need 4gb ram. My old 2x2 G5 has 2.5gb, and renders fastest with 8 threads. I got even more efficiency on long renders by using 2 copies of LW for a total of 16 threads rendering. 2 frames rendering simultaneously finished in less than twice the time.

You're making a mistake if you're judging Macs after using only an iMac for graphics, especially 3D.

[SCS5]

SuperMicro makes a quad intel xeon board!