X4 Ray Tracing - Optimal CPU

[SkagitDesign]

I ended up with an AMD 8120 8 core cpu. It pegs all cores to 100% when ray tracing.

Doing some tests with the plan and same saved camera on my new and old machine were interesting. What would take an hour 20 on the old basic dual core machine takes about 10 minutes on the new 8 core.

No idea how it would compare all things being equal to an Intel fast chip, but, this works very well and is light years ahead of what I had. No issues on set up or anything. It worked out to be a very good fast budget build.