Dear members,

I am going to build a new ws, and 1.st priority for this is rendering speed and 2nd stability.

Prior to selection of hardware i sit with the following question.
What will give max/ optimum speed and performance while rendering, as many number of cpu core’s as possible or highest possible operation CPU GHz speed. ???

After reading some information and material from different sources i get input that point in both directions. I am more confused now after reading a lot, than before starting to get info about what to select.

I hope members here will find this question interesting and share their experiences with me.

Sincerely, thj

I’m not really sure what there is to be confused about. More cores= faster render, More GHz= faster render. So more cores+ more speed = even faster render. Only limitations I know of, is that Mental Ray currently supports only 4 cores, which shouldn’t be a problem if you plan to use consumer products.

Best value for you money right now must be intel’s core 2 quad 6600 @ 2.4ghz. It can easily be overclocked to over 3ghz at which speeds it rivals and mostly bests even the most expensive processors (in 3d max rendering only, for video editing you would better choose one of the yorksfield models that have sse4 instructions.)
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upgrading to a core wood be better because you can spend hundreds of dollars on speeding up GHz and not get it that much faster, cheaper 2 just get a better core, like the 1 mentioned above.

Mental ray can use up to 8 cores, I had a dual quad core in my last job and Mental ray used ‘em all!