Recommendations for building a rendering machine

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Hi,

I am considering building a computer just for rendering a project I am doing in Maya right now. Can anyone give me their thoughts on how the various processors stack up for Maya rendering. Also, what offers the best performance for the price? So far it looks like I should be comparing the Pentium 4, Dual Xeons, Dual AthlonMPs, and the Athlon64. Can you recommend a good motherboard to go with your proc of choice?

Thanks a lot, Alex

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Here's some benchmarks... now of course you cant just go on one lot of benchmarks (esp since they are for maya 4) but its a start

my work is getting a dual opteron machine in the next week or so so ill be able to duke it out against our dual xeons and see what happens

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view\_content.as...n246&page=5

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view\_content.as...246&page=12

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view\_content.as...2800&page=5

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please do tell