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Originally Posted by jimb
def. go with the xeon dual....or if you wanna get real dreamy, check out the new dell server line they have QUAD Xeons (xeon 4 ghz x 4) and get upto 12 ghz in processor speed.
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Intel is good at one thing. Advertising. And 4Ghz x 4 would be 16 Ghz.
Why not get a 8-Way Opteron 2.6Ghz? 20.8Ghz.
But all in all a dual system would benefit you the most with video rendering. If you want to stay under $2k and have a kick ass system get a Athlon 64 with 2Gb RAM and 4 SATA 250gb 16mb cache drives. Then do a raid 10 with them. This will give you redundancy and some extra speed. Plus 500GB of storage.
By the time you purchase it the 4200Mhz should be out which are supposed to include dual proc's on a single chip.