Mazty said:
Viper1 said:
Mazty said:
CGI-Quality said:
85-90% CPU load. If I wasn't building next week, I'd wait for the newer Intel CPUs, but the 3970X will suffice either way, because it has the speed and cores.
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True but if you're doing large renders that take 10's of hours, you're locking yourself out of your gaming machine, hence why an eight-core AMD PC would be a good idea as you could just leave that running 24/7 and it'd never interfere with your gaming. Just a thought.
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Would you mind elaborating on exactly how that works?
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If I want to render something, depending on the size, it can take 20+ hours. Due to the load on the CPU it takes, there's no way the PC can do anything but render, therefore preventing me from playing games on it.
If he gets a cheaper CPU, the extra cash could make a small 8 core AMD PC that could be used as a 24/7 render station. When the time comes to render, transfer the file across from the main PC to the render station, hit go and you still have access to the gaming PC. It'll be slower, but leaving it on 24/7 isn't an issue. I just put it forward as a suggestion in case his PC is his main source of gaming.
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Ah.
I thought for a moment there you were trying to say that you could use an 8 core AMD CPU rather than the 6 core Intel chip which would leave you with 2 cores left over to still game with.
