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- In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950507013218.14886B-100000@dorsai.dorsai.org> enigma@dorsai.dorsai.org writes:
- >From: enigma@dorsai.dorsai.org
- >Subject: Re: P90 vs. A4000
- >Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 05:40:59 GMT
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- >On Fri, 5 May 1995, Mark Midolla wrote:
-
- >> A> Basically, a P90 is typically 4-5 times as fast as the stock 4000, but
- >> A> when there's alot of number crunching involved, the P90
- >> Ive read that the Cyberstorm 060 50Mhz has been tested to be 20-30%
- >> faster at rendering then a P90 using Lightwave and Imagine.
- >>
- >> Mark
- >>
-
- >As a faster option, for the price of the 060 board ($1595), you could
- >buy a P60 computer, and have both the P60 and your 4000 as usable
- >machines, to either both render on, or use one to render and one to model
- >on while the other renders. For the same money, this setup is 2 to three
- >times more productive and faster, than the 060 board, which when
- >installed renders your 040 chip (that you paid good money for, and still
- >renders fast) usless.
-
- >Why have one computer, when for the same price, you can have two. Just an
- >alternative thought.
-
- Because:
- 1) Your P60 @ $1595 will have only 8mb RAM.
- 2) You will pay double for RAM upgrades in the future to maintain both
- machines.
- 3) You will pay double for software licenses (to keep identical versions on
- both platforms at least).
-
- There is no right solution and there are other good reasons to have
- multiple machines (like redundancy in case one breaks). Everybody's situation
- is somewhat different though. Just remember that RAM and software costs can
- easily outstrip CPU costs.
-
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