whats better amd or intel

i do, do a lot of rendering..from adobe to Maya...but like i said i am going to get in to water cooling here sometime because i am getting tired of all the noise...but that fan dose great....for me at least..

i got my at microcenter.. http://www.microcenter.com
but that have them at most online stores...like the one blink182av gave you would have it most likely

yeppers. after hours of hardcore gaming my FX-55 is at 57ºC. I have not yet used it for rendering movies. I will not get a chance to w/ fans hopefully. XDUDE-what kind of wcing are you gonna get?

http://www.xoxide.com/aquagate.html

that is one that i am looking in to,but i am still open for ideas..i would like to keep it under $500.....but i like that one because it is not outside like some of them.i some times need to take my computer to a job si i need to be able to move it...

i read another thing -- see the forum post Wire Folding for what i am talking about


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that is a nice system, i would get different blocks and stuff tho

If you dont mind me asking... What are you pplz talking about?

we got a little off topic talking about cooling - haha

lol...but really what were you guyz talking about ? "rendering" whats that? (lol im just a gamer)

rendering - how to explain

kinda like coding, but w/ pictures and movies

More accurately, rendering would be roughly equivalent to compiling. Usually when someone talks about rendering it has to do with video, as most audio rendering is able to be done real time now. Basically what happens is you make a bunch of changes to a picture or a video, and you get a low-quality preview of that picture, or a still frame preview of the changes you made to your video. When you get something that you think is right, you render it so you can view it at full quality/in motion.

Rendering has in the past been the most time consuming aspect of video editing, so people throw tons of money into computers to get it done faster. Standard definition video can be rendered pretty fast now, but wouldn't you know it they came out with new technology and we're back to waiting extended periods of time for HD video to render.

Also, rendering can refer to animation like what you see from Disney/pixar/etc. There's a massive amount of 3d work that goes into those and it can take days or weeks to do a final render.

thanks for that in-depth explaination!

Render farms are great. One of our 3D animators can't stand working without them now. We spoiled our team on a cluster of Opertons.

But to the first page, discussing heat: AMD processors have a lower clock speed then Intel processors, but they perform more work per clock cycle than Intel, too. This is why they get hotter, and why AMD abandoned the clock speed labeling of thier processors. AMD started to label thier processors according to how they perform when compared to Intel's chips, at the minimal level. Thus Athlon 3200+ runs at a clock speed of like 2.8GHz but it compares to Intel's 3.2GHz systems. At least, that's what it was when they started that line. Anymore it's not that way, I think they label them by processor series.

I've always thought AMD has had the better technology, at least from the 586 up. I never had a lick of trouble with my AMD 486's either, though. Once the Athlon line hit I was really impressed.