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#1

I am going to upgrade my computer in few months. I have a 30" monitor and my work document size in Zbrush is quite large something around 1080p, which requires quite powerful CPU.

I am thinking about getting the upcoming Haswell 4770k, unfortunately it is only a quad core but would you think it will be enough for the amount of pixol space I intend to drive with it?

Would there be a massive difference if I bought a 6 or 8 core, or maybe dual 4770k is better way to go?

Any benchmark tests and thoughts on this matter are apreciated

#2

If no one has any suggestions,maybe at least everyone just post what CPU you have and how it performs for you.

#3

This is mine with a 30’ monitor and 20’monitor
CPU
Intel Core i7 960
Cores 4
Threads 8
Name Intel Core i7 960
Code Name Bloomfield
Package Socket 1366 LGA
Technology 45nm
Specification Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz
Family 6
Extended Family 6
Model A
Extended Model 1A
Stepping 5
Revision D0
Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, Intel 64
Virtualization Supported, Enabled
Hyperthreading Supported, Enabled
Fan Speed 1256 RPM
Bus Speed 133.2 MHz
Rated Bus Speed 3196.8 MHz
Stock Core Speed 3200 MHz
Stock Bus Speed 133 MHz
Average Temperature 109 °F
Caches
L1 Data Cache Size 4 x 32 KBytes
L1 Instructions Cache Size 4 x 32 KBytes
L2 Unified Cache Size 4 x 256 KBytes
L3 Unified Cache Size 8192 KBytes
Core 0
Core 1
Core 2
Core 3

And

AMD Radeon HD 6670
OpenGL
Version 4.2.11931 Compatibility Profile Context
Vendor ATI Technologies Inc.
Renderer AMD Radeon HD 6670
GLU Version 1.2.2.0 Microsoft Corporation
Values
GL_MAX_LIGHTS 8
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE 16384
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_STACK_DEPTH 10
GL Extensions
GLU Extensions

Hope that helps

#4

Thanks blueferret, just one question, do you find it adequate to the 30 inch screen, is it smooth for sculpting and rendering in say, 15-20 mil polys?

#5

Yes i find it big enough for 20 mil polys,But in Monitor Size if you can afford it Bigger is Better, you just have that much more realestate nto work with… Deke

Ps its not that important but you should have at least 8 gigs of ram, I use max alot so I got mine with 24 gigs…

#6

I think I will go with the upcoming main stream quad Haswell 4770k, it will be in the reasonable price and I only need to buy mobo and cpu I already have 16gb ram so I won’t spend a lot and this will enable me to upgrade again in 2 years or so I think it will be a better choice than buying super expensive cpu now and then wait for upgrade longer.

thanks again for your input