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knightsilver

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Ive never had an AMD, but I use Nvidia GPU's. I work with Blender & Gimp, not much of a gamer.

My plans are to build a complete system next Feb(tax time), I also want to wait for the next set of chipsets. But I really dont know much about AMD or its raodmaps. My needs are a single GPU(no duel GPU or SLI). 8GB or memory is just fine, can always up it to 16GB later. And two WD 1TB Blacks in RAID0 is plenty. Also Id want a full 16x for the GPU, an 8x for a RAID card if I need it down the road, and a 4x Intel Duallink NIC. And USB3 and 6gb/s.

Personally I think what Intel did with its 55 chipset was a farse, PCIe lanes that is.

Im looking at a GTX 480 at the moment, the faster memory bandwidth the better and the amount.


So, would AMD be a good choice for my needs, and will their be a 8core desktop around the corner?

thanks
 
There won't be an "8" core AMD processor till Bulldozer is released sometime next year, but there's no real information as to just when. AMD's chipsets are pretty good, and the top end boards will have more than enough PCI-E lanes to run a videocard at x16 and RAID at x8. The next chipset release that's for Bulldozer will support USB3 and SATA 6gb/s as they'll be standard by then.
 
Sounds like Ill wait for Bulldozer then.

JUst wish I could find someone thats running Blender on a GTX 480?

Im guessing MSI or Gigabyte for AMD baords? What ever will be the most solid and days of rendering at a time?


thanks agian
 
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knightsilver said:
Sounds like Ill wait for Bulldozer then.

JUst wish I could find someone thats running Blender on a GTX 480?

Im guessing MSI or Gigabyte for AMD baords? What ever will be the most solid and days of rendering at a time?


thanks agian
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Gigabyte and MSI are both good brands, but I'm partial to Asus myself. My last three motherboards have all be Asus AMD boards and I've been extremely pleased.

Here's a link to a forum topic about GTX 480 and Radeon 5870s in Blender. Don't know if it'll help though.
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=184188
 
I've recently got a Gigabyte board with the latest AMD chipset and it's solid as a rock, even overclocked. It already supports USB3 (NEC chip) and 6 core CPUs AMD have recently released.
 
Honestly I hate to ask but why are you doing this? Why don't you start caring about your new computer I dont know... even a month? before you build it. Next February is almost a year away.

The GTX480 will be even more lackluster than it is today.
 
Very true - you're better off going with high clock speeds. Photoshop does appear to use multiple cores if you have a billion pounds just sitting around.
 
thanks guys, for yalls opinions.

I didnt know Gimp was just single threaded, thanks. I am planning on getting Adobe suite some time in the future.

One question about AMD cpu's, are they weaker than Intel's? Im not a fanboy for Intel or AMD, I just like the Bang4Buck, which ever gives me the better. And more cores for rendering the better.

thanks
 
knightsilver said:
thanks guys, for yalls opinions.

I didnt know Gimp was just single threaded, thanks. I am planning on getting Adobe suite some time in the future.

One question about AMD cpu's, are they weaker than Intel's? Im not a fanboy for Intel or AMD, I just like the Bang4Buck, which ever gives me the better. And more cores for rendering the better.

thanks
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I don't think you can do any better than AMD's new six core cpu's when you want bang for the buck.
 
sn_85 said:
I don't think you can do any better than AMD's new six core cpu's when you want bang for the buck.
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depends on what your doing.....if only gaming the i5 750 is a much better bang for buck, however if your doing photoshop/video work, the x6 is better, more physical cores than the i5's.....also when you OC the Phenom II it will OC well, and do just as well as the i7 920's in some things(im talking the x6 OC'd to 4.0 vs a 920 at lower speed ;P ).....so for video and the like, the x6 is best bang for buck, gaming, the i5 750 would be
 
W.Feather said:
depends on what your doing.....if only gaming the i5 750 is a much better bang for buck, however if your doing photoshop/video work, the x6 is better, more physical cores than the i5's.....also when you OC the Phenom II it will OC well, and do just as well as the i7 920's in some things(im talking the x6 OC'd to 4.0 vs a 920 at lower speed ;P ).....so for video and the like, the x6 is best bang for buck, gaming, the i5 750 would be
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He said he was not much of a gamer
 
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