I just noticed when I did a benchmark with my Dre’auron the Dragon image (much updated from the one that was in finished projects months ago)
It doesn’t just scamper through rendering images compared to my old Pentium D dual core it BURNS through rendering images compared.
I rendered it with my old computer over night last night and took 3 Hours and 34 minutes.
I rendered it just now with my new comp. and rendered the whole thing SSS layers and all with the wing membrane material fixed in just 42 minutes:eek:
It’s hard to believe myself, I was expecting at least an hour. This will allow far more complex renders then what I’ve been able to do now. I know a big part was the Quad core but it may have also been the fact the architecture is also different from a Pentium D.
It may also be the fact I have WinXP on my comp and not Vista.
The render times on my Weekend Challenge bowling scene demolishes the time it took on my old PC by rendering it out in less then an hour (I believe a little over 4 times faster)
good for you. My old computer was a dual core, with 200 Gigs of memory, and an extra hard drive, and than it crashed, and I am on a single core laptop with only 512 MB.
yea, it kinda sucks. at least it has 10.5 on it, which is nice.
you will need the 64bit windows XP, or the 64bit Windows vista or 64 bit Linux to take full advantage of your new processor. If you got the 800Mhz ram you can overclock it to 1066Mhz, or even higher with the Nforce application. You can squeak the CPU up a little bit as well.
-Intel Core 2 Q6600 2.4 Ghz clock speed
-4 Gigs of RAM (.75 gigs more then WinXP recognizes apparently)
-GeForce 8800 GT 512 megs.
Running WinXP certainly had something to do with it. Vista may be the latest and brightest, but it isn’t exactly streamlined.
Dell gave me an installation CD for Vista Ultimate, but I’ll stick with XP to get as much of my comp. processing power used on Blender as I can, besides, it not only burns through rendering compared to my old one, it boots up more then twice as fast as well.
Sounds like a nice system. I love my 8800GT to no end. Maybe I’ll do some upgrades with Retail Edge at the end of the year… I could use a Quad… maybe a 790i Ultra as well :D.
(I’m currently running an E6600 @ 3.4 on air, 2GB Corsair DDR2-800 with 4-4-4-12 and an EVGA 8800GT SC)
And as others said, if you think it’s fast now, throw Ubuntu x86_64 on there and be amazed :).
Makes me sick to my stomach when I see people spend tons more (nearly 2x$$$) to get it prebuilt, rather then just by spending the time to order the parts individually and get a friend to put it together for you. sure you could find someone
When you render this stuff… is the GPU actually doing anything? It seems like the CPU does all the work.
