I am running an AMD XP 2400 ( 2.0 GHZ ) 1 Gig am w. GeForce 3 board and SATA drives doing primarily simple solids with no interior part work ( Industrial Design )
This machine is dragging during rendering in PW2 as these are presentation style renderings. I cant upgrade this board or OC the chip so I am looking at some new machines and need your expert advice. One option I have is to go to a P4 630 chip, 1 gig ram, 2 MB cache system using an Intel on board video. Another is to go to a 3.2 P4 640 chip. 1 gig ram, 2MB cache with an ATI Radeon x300. OR I can add a GeForce 6600GT to either machine.
Are either on board video 'is adequate for what I am using them for and will there be any significant speed increase between what I have now and ether of the two new chips ? I need to go this route due to financial constraints. TIA