Spent a lot of time comparing specs on the 2 CPUs and the only real difference I see is toleration of heat and memory bandwidth - Opteron has more BW but slower memory, Phenom faster memory but less bandwidth.

Wanted to see if I am missing anything in my thought process, the system I am building will be a dedicated graphics workstation for Adobe products meant to compete with/trounce MacPros workstations.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be help full on the processor side.

AMD Rules!!!!

Thanks,

Will

I too have spent a significant amount of time comparing the processors and find myself with more questions than when I started.

I am looking to build a system for architectural rendering from Maya's Mental Ray and the Maxwell and Vray plug-ins for Rhino. The Phenom II 1090T has good benchmarks on Cinebench only out done by the higher end 6 core Intel's at 3 times the price. I'm also looking at the Opteron 4180 so I can build a multiprocessor system even though they are a slower processor I can get more cores to cut down render times even further, since my understanding is that the Phenom's can t run in a multiprocessor system. Please correct me if I'm wrong I would love to get two in a system and be done with it.

There is a motherboard on Newegg that will run <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/...2-203R-_-Product">4 quad-core or 6-core processors</a> but the AMD product page says that the 4000 series can only run two on a board. If I can run 4 of the 4180's that will give me a significant decrease in my render times which will equal more productivity.

Have you seen this:

http://www.amd.com/us/products.../six-core-opteron.aspx

Unfortunately those are a little out of my price range at around $2k each vs the $200 for the slightly slower 4180, but your right they will run that number of processors at a time.

Any other suggestions?