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Hardware comparison

Thread starter cmclaugh
Start date Apr 28, 2007

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Apr 28, 2007

cmclaugh

Mechanical

I'm not much of a hardware expert so which setup is better?
Specifically for rendering.

DELL PRECISION 690
INTEL XEON CPU 3.00GHZ, 2.0GB RAM, NVIDIA QUADRO FX 1300
OR
DELL PRECISION 690
INTEL XEON CPU 5120@1.86GHZ (DUAL CORE), 3.0GB RAM, NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3500

Thanks for any feedback.

Chris