Amichai Shamen Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Hi all,Im in the middle of a PC build, and I was wondering which CPU would be better suited to running Second Life. I am trying to decide between a quad core 4ghz processor, and a six core 3.75ghz (or is it 3.5ghz, I forget) processor. Would the viewer benefit from the additional cores, or am I better off with the best quad core I can find? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Better graphics card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Heh. My first reaction was: "But that's not the question!" and then... yeah: If you can save enough with either of these CPUs to be able to afford even a slightly better graphics card, it's a sure win. For a given price point, however, and for typical real world desktop use, fewer, faster cores usually win over more, slower cores. That said, it won't be a disaster either way. (On Windows, you can watch how well load is balanced among cores from the CPU tab of the Resource Monitor, accessible from the Performance tab of the Task Manager.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Qie Niangao wrote: Heh. My first reaction was: "But that's not the question!" Well, it's not my fault that the wrong question was asked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amichai Shamen Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 Well, in truth, I didnt ask about GPUs because my guess is that a 12gb GPU cant really be beat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Well, simply stating the amount of memory is irrelevant somewhat beyond a point with SL. The same GPU with 4GB is going to be pretty much the same for example. Anyway, the answer is not the amount of memory yet again, but how well that GPU is supported under SL's choice of OpenGL interface. Either way, your CPU question is now irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Bhalti Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Guessing trying to run one of those fancy "cad" graphics cards? or the titan series cards? yeah those might have TONS of memory on them. but they lack features which the gaming cards have. so "but this has 12gb of ram" does not mean diddly when it comes to gaming. I ran a card with 512mb of ram and it was running better then my titan series with 6gb of ram. why. because one is made for the purpose, the other was not. also cpu wise. i7 or above. would be a logical start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaomiLocket Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 I haven't tried many CPU's so I can't answer that question. But for what people have been saying about graphics cards; In terms of graphics card, the two major parts you'll need to consider are processing shadows and projection lighting. They tend to be the heavy hitters. But it is irrelevant if you don't run those settings and still end up with a slow pc. I would be more concerned about other bottlenecks, like how often the HDD is being read and written to. If processing even the most basic things comes to a crawl it all gets kinda mute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaomiLocket Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Sassy Romano wrote: Either way, your CPU question is now irrelevant. A CPU question is never irrelevant. Games not built for mulitcores have a habit of stalling or crashing unless forced through settings to run on a single core. So asking if the viewer would benefit beyond a certain number of cores is always valid. From both a sanity and financial point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Both are so similarly spec'd, already highly capable processors, with a likely highly capable GPU. SL isn't something that benefits from multi core, the question is about performance in SL... Thus the CPU question is irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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