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Originally Posted by bronco67
i7's can't be run dual, as no motherboard exists for that. You need a xeon CPU.
I would stay away from it. I built a dual CPU xeon a year ago, and it so expensive -- and the worst part was that one of my overclocked i7 machines was the same speed, or faster for 3D rendering.
Get a Sandy Bridge Intel(single CPU), and overclock it. Trust me as someone who has been there -- it's NOT worth it.
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I got a ASUS X58 P6T SLI and a INTEL i7-920 2.66GHZ which from what I read up on was easily overclocked, and every time I tried even to just stick the thing in "turbo mode" the system was unstable. Not too keen on the overclocking deal.
With my mac I get dual chip quad core, and Adobe premiere uses all the cores and is faster, but I need a separate rendering box which I've always had a PC for.
Sounds to me like I should just get another mac as my rendering machine since you can't reallly get effective dual chip cpu's in a pc config.