mac pro 8 core 3GHz 9 Gigs of ram
Hey Guys, I don’t have a Core I7 myself, but a friend of mine just build a rig with a 920 in it. I’ve been thinking of building a Nehalem rig myself, so I persuaded my friend to install Zbrush 3.1 and run the benchmark so I could see the results. It’s safe to say I was pleasantly surprised.
His Rig:
I7 920 @2.66 GHz
6 GBs DDR3-1066
AMD Radeon 4850 (overclocked 1 gig version)
Windows XP 64
The Mac 8 core machines are really not impressive at all, maybe some problem with memory timings? not scaling well on 8 procs on a mac? cant believe a 8 core mac is being blasted by a q6600 rig…weird. Are these under emulation?
Now that i7 rig…with some new 1600Mhz 8-8-8-21, or the 2000Mhz modules coming soon and some overclock, that thing will fly…
wow 0.88 for the multi thread! I think that might be the new king. Anyone have a setup that can beat that?
CI7 FTW!
heres mine, its not even that I know what this means but I thought I would chime in to learn something.
Threaded; 1.415
What the hell are you running E? 
Is your computer on E?
Cadmium77 - please explain yourself. I am interested in what you have to say.
E said he was running .88. I’m running 8 3 gigahertz cores with 8 gigs RAM and a Radeon HD 4870 X2 and getting 1.415. I’d like to know what kind of monster rig he’s getting that kind of rating on…
He must have overlocked that somwhat to get them results, either way, nice, very nice, was thinking of building a system based on the i7 920 myself.
Im getting 1.03 threaded, and thats with my system at 3.5ghz on a q6600.
34,4 speed increase for multi, but just 4.120998 (whatever that means)
Old and cheap Athlon 64 X2 3600+ with 3 gigs of ram. Enough for 9 mil of polys. I will hopefully make an update in incoming months…
Mac Pro 8 core, 2.8Ghz, 6GB ram (4 dedicated) stock ATI graphics card.
Hey Tez, nope, it’s not overclocked in the slightest - just a core I7 @ 2.66 GHz. I understand your reaction though, I had the same one when I saw the results. Needless to say, my next rig will be a Nehalem.
My interest have now been sparked. I have a new mac pro (april). Is this a “doable” operation? I saw some installation and removal instructional tutorials on the web it doesn’t seem so hard.
This isnt the first time iv seen realy high marks from a 920. Cinebench got higher score than mine at its stock.
Allminoxy, you showed me the way to go. I was going to get me the 920 i7 and go 3Ghz on it with the noctua cpu cooler. Some 8-8-8-21 1600 Mhz mem, probably 6 Gb. Now I know it is a good thing. 
Happy New Year.
If only more software apps were developed like Zbrush…I hope they go stream processing on Cuda base for the next release…a guy can dream.
Stock AMD Phenom Black edition 9950 2.6GHZ 8GB ram
Hey Skullbeast, are you talking about upgrading your current processor to a Nehalem? I’m assuming you are, but if not, forgive me for misunderstanding your question. In order to upgrade your processor, you have to have a motherboard that supports the new processor. Unfortunately, your current processor is LGA 771 and the Nehalem processor is LGA 1366, which are incompatible with eachother. If you want to upgrade your computer, you would have to puchase an i7 motherboard as well.
Hey Giantsun, that’s pretty much exactly what I plan to do once I finally get my hands on a Nehalem. The 920’s @ 3.0 GHz perform as well if not better than their highly priced brothers (940, 965). Happy New Year to you as well.
Allminoxy - Thanks for the tip, I was considering it.