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Sorry, landock - I got a bit distracted there, so forgot to thank you for your post!
My primary thought with processors is the difference between Xeons and the consumer-orientated flavours - I've seen a few people here and on other sites mention Xeons and the price differential certainly hints at useful gains, but I've no idea whether an ostensibly less powerful Xeon (by numbers) is better at heavy processing than a higher-clocked '2 quad' or whatever?
I'm interested in what you say about FireGL too - I've started dabbling more with 3D, and expect to be getting deeper in that next year, and had been looking at (and frightened off by) nVidia's Quadro line - I must admit, I don't really understand why those fuckers cost over a grand more / or why I can't just use a borderline top-end card for 3D work..
er, anyway, I'm rambling. Thanks for your response!
- Because they handle million of poligons seamlessy without overloading the CPU, that's why.Fariska