Dual processor PC

[Anonymous]

Hi all.

I need to assemble a PC computer for utilizing ArchiCad (and possibly 3dmax), and now Iam looking for most suitable hardware components. I read this forum and have noticed many useful things which helped me a lot. A few questions I would like to ask: Is it reasonable to spend more money for a dual processor configuration? What performance gain it would give comparing to singleprocessor one? If anybody anybody use dualproc Intel based PC please share you opinion.

thanks in advance

P.S. sorry for my english ..

[Stephen Dolbee]

Smoker,
I don't think you would notice a performance gain in Archicad unless you had several applications running. I purchased a dual processor machine with a single processor. I will add the second processor in the future, if Archicad starts to support them. With rumors of 9.0 coming out soon, who knows?

Steve
P.S. I think your English is fine.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much Stephen.
I think I will do the same, i.e. buy a dualproc motherboard and one processor and add second one in case of necessity.

thx

[Anonymous]

As long as you can afford it why not start with dual or quad processors? Several top end programs utilize the power even if ArchiCAD won't.

[Stephen Dolbee]

Burginger wrote:
As long as you can afford it why not start with dual or quad processors?

As new processors come out, the price should drop on the older ones.
(I hope)

Steve

[Anonymous]

smoker
Check out http://forums.2cpu.com/
Here you'll find all the info on dual cpu machines and components and then some.
I got most of my info from thses guys when I buillt my rigs.
Very helpful.

[Anonymous]

ArchiCAD 9 also provides:


- The implementation of LightWorks, the industry standard, high-quality rendering engine that dramatically boosts presentation capabilities and supports dual processor machines for high performance.

YES! Dual processor recognition. G5's will be zippy.

[Stephen Dolbee]

Burginger wrote:
ArchiCAD 9 also provides:
supports dual processor machines for high performance.
YES! Dual processor recognition.

I'd better put my order in for an additional xeon processor. (Sooner than I expected!)

Steve