I was wondering as I did test a quad opteron 240 here - running Linux
Enterprise and got 64 bit MR tokens to test - it was pretty awesome - some
7 times fater than my 3.0Ghz Duals, but the price of the hardware and as you
say the 64 bit tokens killed it!
Cheers
S.
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Sandy Sutherland Digital Doodeller - TD
The Refinery (Cape) http://www.refinery.co.za
mailto:sandy(at)refinery.co.za
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Andersson" <sanders3d(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: a comparisment
> nope all were WindowsXP (32 bit). The price difference for a mental
> ray 64 bit node is not worth the price.....
>
> /stefan
>
> On 7/4/05, Sandy Sutherland <sandy(at)refinery.co.za> wrote:
> > Were your Opterons Running a 64bit OS???
> >
> > S.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > Sandy Sutherland Digital Doodeller - TD
> > The Refinery (Cape) http://www.refinery.co.za
> > mailto:sandy(at)refinery.co.za
> > (P) (+27 21) 480 3132 (F) (+27 21) 480 3101
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stefan Andersson" <sanders3d(at)gmail.com>
> > To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 5:51 PM
> > Subject: a comparisment
> >
> >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I just did a small test here at the office since we recived a few new
> > > opterons (not dual core though). I though it might be fun for others
> > > to see the results. It was a simple scene with a few shaders on
> > > (dirtmap, diffusion, toon, constant, relection).... simple art by the
> > > humble artist Alexei at xtfx :)
> > >
> > > anyhooo... (from the frame that took the longest time to render)
> > >
> > > 1 x AMD Athlon64 3500+, 1GB Ram 04:29
> > > 2 x Intel XEON 3.2 Ghz, 2GB Ram 04:03
> > > 2 x AMD Opteron 242, 2GB Ram 02:11
> > >
> > > Interesting also because the XEON were almost 3 times the price of the
> > > Athlon64 machine :)
> > >
> > > regards
> > > stefan andersson
> > >
> > >
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