Hey guys I'd like some advice on new processors please. I'm upgrading and can't decide between a 4 core or 6 core professor. i7-6600k or i7-5820k. The 6600k has 4 faster, newer more efficient individual cores whilst the 5720k has 6 slightly older, slightly less efficient individual cores. My PC will mainly be used for…
assuming there is no large difference in clock speed or cache i think 6 cores in generally are more preferable assuming the OS makes allocation of cores to tasks easy. is there a way in windows to conveniently assign cores to processes? as in: 'dedicate 2 cores to application X, leave the rest to the OS to utilize as…
The Skylabe generation is very efficient in render engine like Mental Ray or VRay, the 6700K 4 cores is as fast as the 5820K 6 cores. Take a look to this bench (sorry in French, but the graph is easily understood): http://www.hardware.fr/articles/940-9/cpu-rendu-3d-mental-ray-v-ray.html
Unless you are using offline renders like vray , the impact will be minimal. Of course if you have the extra cash go for the 6 cores. If money is tight I'd rather put it in a good ssd, a gpu or a nice monitor :smile: It will make absolutely no difference when playing games, modelling or texturing, none that you might…
ah, so affinity is the keyword. this looks interesting: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/change-the-processor-affinity-setting-in-windows-7-to-gain-a-performance-edge/ especially the ability to run this from shortcuts. i think experimenting with fencing off certain tasks that normally take over the…
It really depends on what you do. With apps that are multi-thread well, many cores (as long as the sum performance of the cores is better) tend to be faster. Apps like xnormal or offline renderers like Modo and some others that can properly thread will tend to work better with more cores (assuming similar efficacy).…