The additional cores will do nothing for core Avid applications. Some plugins and other processes like Marquee may benefit. The cores can certainly help when multitasking with other applications whether or not they are multithreaded. While there are some applications like After Effects than can harness many cores. However truth is they need at least 3gb of ram per core to really shine and can use more!
I would go for the better video card and shoving as much ram into an 8 core machine with the faster processor clock speed.
You will love the z800
Chris Magid
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On Feb 5, 2011, at 3:31 AM, Dylan Reeve <dylan@dylan.wibble.net> wrote:
We're about to upgrade our Symphony suite from it's current XW8600 to a
Z800...
We're looking at two configuration options basically:
- 2x Quad-core 2.93GHz with FX4800
- 2x Hex-core 2.66GHz with FX3800
The pricing on the two is very similar... So then my question is: Do four
additional lower speed cores and the lesser model video card deliver better
performance than the fewer, faster, core machine which a higher model card?
It's Symphony 5 with Nitris DX running on a fibre-attached Lanshare, if that
matters much.
Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/
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