Having been caught by the cabinet building bug (!) I have I have also been researching through various posts on this forum to try to work out the good spec to run both
VP and
FP on two monitors at the very best level of detail and smoothness.
Initially I was thinking of a Core 2 Quad but after a little more research I think that Core 2 Duo might be good enough with a meaty graphics card.
This link discusses the mulitple cores...
Quad Core and OS DebateAn excerpt in the above post says
"(1) Windows XP SP2 or higher understands multi core processors. Whether 32 or 64 bit doesn't matter.
(2) In order to utilize multiple cores, the Application has to be written to do that. Installing a single threaded game on a multi core computer will result in only 1 core being used by the game. There is an advantage in that the OS can assign other tasks to the idle core(s). So the game can have 1 core's undivided attention. This is not a bad thing, and does result in real performance improvements. But because the game itself only "understands" 1, then it will only use 1. This is the same whether you use XP or Vista. Nearly all past and current applications for PC are only single processor/core aware. This will change over time, for sure. But in many/most cases will require developers to write completely new apps."
I guess with
VP running the backglass with a UVPServer there is a good chance that the OS will dedicate the
VP process to one core and the other to the UVPServer, however you still have all the OS processes as well so I suppose 4 cores could still be of benefit. It would be interesting to know if the performance monitor in windows shows all 4 cores are being utilised when running
FP and separately
VP with
UVP maxed out - if anyone with a cabinet running at the best level of detail knows (or can check) it would be great to know.
In choosing a processor I have also found it useful to look at the PC specs of cabinet makers (like Rawd who manages to run
FP maxed out) and comparing their processor benchmark at the site below. This way I can choose a processor that performs at a similar benchmark.
CPU Benchmark ComparisonsCannot wait to build a cabinet - for the moment I have to be contented with just watching the videos
- the wife says it is becoming an obsession.... I think she is right .
Cheers
Edited by settingsons, 10 January 2010 - 09:29 PM.
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