I'm about to get a new computer at work. I am somewhat
tempted to get one with an i7 processor because the i7s
absolutely kill Core2Duos in 3D rendering.
However, most of my work is just in Pro/E, and the i7s
(in computers my work will get me ie Dell, HP) are quad-
core with much lower clock rates than the C2Ds available.
So I have a dilema: Do I go for higher clock rate or do
I go for more cores and memory bandwidth.
Does Pro/E utilize additional cores much at all during
general modeling? I am concerned that if it doesn't,
then perhaps it would actually run faster on a
cheaper 3.06Ghz C2D than it would on a quad-core 2.26 GHz
i7.
Any advice on this would be very much appreciated. If a
quad 2.26-2.4 GHz i7 would be about the same speed as a
3.06 GHZ C2D, then I think it would still be worth
getting an i7 for the rendering performance. However, if
such an i7 might actually be slower then it would be a
waste of money.
Edited by: 2ms1
tempted to get one with an i7 processor because the i7s
absolutely kill Core2Duos in 3D rendering.
However, most of my work is just in Pro/E, and the i7s
(in computers my work will get me ie Dell, HP) are quad-
core with much lower clock rates than the C2Ds available.
So I have a dilema: Do I go for higher clock rate or do
I go for more cores and memory bandwidth.
Does Pro/E utilize additional cores much at all during
general modeling? I am concerned that if it doesn't,
then perhaps it would actually run faster on a
cheaper 3.06Ghz C2D than it would on a quad-core 2.26 GHz
i7.
Any advice on this would be very much appreciated. If a
quad 2.26-2.4 GHz i7 would be about the same speed as a
3.06 GHZ C2D, then I think it would still be worth
getting an i7 for the rendering performance. However, if
such an i7 might actually be slower then it would be a
waste of money.
Edited by: 2ms1