Cpu choice for blender work

[frodotheturtle]

i have an old mac pro that is still got the base 8 core 2.26gh pair of cpus in it. as i do alot of blender work (seemingly the only thing to hit my cpu hard) i was looking at ether a x5677 (8 core, 3.46gh) or and x5680 (12 core 3.3gh). the x5680 has a clear advantage for blender but does cost 2-3 times as much (x5677 pair can be had for $30 vs x5680 pairs are $100). Im on a tight budget so i ether get the 12 core or an SSD to replace the 5200rpm stock drive the machine came with. What do you think?

[Bubbles_TPB]

You remind me of youtuber named Druaga1. You can install windows 7 on the mac pro then I would use it by remoting into windows then use blender there.

[frodotheturtle]

1 hour ago, LukeTheCoder05 said:

You remind me of youtuber named Druaga1. You can install windows 7 on the mac pro then I would use it by remoting into windows then use blender there.

What would be the added benefit of that? The best computer I own is this Mac Pro  and building a new pc is a bit out of the picture as that would be far more expensive than just getting higher end components for this machine.

[Bubbles_TPB]

8 hours ago, frodotheturtle said:

What would be the added benefit of that? The best computer I own is this Mac Pro  and building a new pc is a bit out of the picture as that would be far more expensive than just getting higher end components for this machine.

Ok gotcha. I thought you meant you had a good rig and would just off load the renders to the mac. Other than that, I don't see why not.

[Bubbles_TPB]

Or you could offload the renders to your xserve if its running

[frodotheturtle]

3 hours ago, LukeTheCoder05 said:

Or you could offload the renders to your xserve if its running

My xserve is still up (it’s got a couple weeks of non stop runtime actually) but I was looking for not just better final renders but faster live rendering as well as just quick test renders.