That’s high-end compared to mine.
I was kinda supprised to read that @ndy’s “Lox” was done on an smallish comp. “Athlon 1.333 - 256 MB RAM”
Pff… do you really need anything faster than 2 ghz? Just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s crap and incapable of doing any basic tasks. Even 500mhz computers are still good for word processing, surfing, and servers.
It would be nice to have a faster one, but it’s not the dinosaur some of you guys are insinuating.
No, of course not. For myself, I couldn’t warent an expensive upgrade until I’ve at least gotten my money’s worth out of the old stuff. And I’m still doing that.
Speaking of how much can be done with a small computer,
Ever hear of the Contiki web browser? It’s allows 8 bit computers like the old C-64 to serf the web without requiring an external server to process the data for it first.
http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/apps/webbrowser.html
And these pages are supposed to be comming from C-64 web server. http://tfe.c64.org/ (may have to lower security measures and try a few times, as it’s supposed to drop any requests it can’t handle)
Does anyone know what the performance ratio of a high-end machine is to a low end machine by current standards? I use a 700MHz ppc processor with 384MB Ram but how much faster would a 3GHz pentium 4 be with similar Ram? I know it’s not linear but would a factor of 5 be roughly accurate?
I would just like to know about machines you can buy new. Like, say how would the lowest emac 1.25GHz G4 at £550 compare with the top end dual 2.5GHz G5 with liquid cooling at £2200?
Does Blender support dual processors, BTW?
I think older machines are ok for Blending if you use them right. For raytraced scenes and other high quality stuff, I just run it overnight. Even if it takes 5 nights instead of one, the job gets done and I can do other projects during the day.
PIII 500 MHz
128 MB RAM
Nvidia 32MB TNT Pro
win XP home
i envy alltaken
AthlonXP 1900+ Currenlty at 1604MHz
512MB RAM
447MB swap partition.
NVidia GeForceFX 5200 Ultra
Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Kernel Version 2.6.5
- AMD Athlon XP 2100+, 512 MB, Geforce 4 TI 4200, Debian Unstable
- Intel P4 3 GHz HT, 1 GB, Geforce 4 MX 440, Debian Unstable
- SGI Octane R10000, 175 MHz, 512 MB, SI, IRIX 6.5.10
damn i threw out a 700Mhz computer the other day, and smashed another one.
oh and my computer now, i am going to go into university to use 2 of their dual 1.8Ghz G5’s with 2 Gb ram, at the same time, because a needing the ram.
one computer does photoshoping, while connected via a network to the other computer which recieves the images and will update them onto my blender mesh for rendering.
UV mapping virtually interactivly. now that will be cool.
1.8x4 Ghz, and 4 Gb ram at my fingertips
Alltaken
Ouch! That hurts!
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.0GHZ)
Radeon 9800 SE (128MB)
1GB DDR466 (aka PC3600 or something like that)
512MB swap partition (I felt lazy)
120GB Seagate UATA hdd
Win XP Home (15 GB partition)/Gentoo Linux(all the rest 
)
17" Sony Trinitron Multiscan E200 (it can do ANY resolution )
42 tons of roast beef (heatsink?)
my comp
2.4ghz
1024mb of ddr ram
Nvidia ti4200 128mb
40gb hd
17" TTX flat screen
Win XP pro
3 gay fans that can’t cool the damn thing when rendering for about 30hours…pff shitty fans…
and a pic to add some fun 
http://theexodus.battletechmodproductions.com/xwarrior/xmachine2004.jpg
warning huge pic ahead![/img]
What?
Were they still working?
If so, you should have told me, I’d have made you an offer :x
check out this sweet rig:
p3 733!
nvidia 5200! PCI!
six year old generic case with no backplate or side!
two 3 watt speakers!
integrated sound!
17" crt!
10 GB hd!
win ME!
an old fan ripped of one of the below computers and screwed into the case!
200 watt sparkle power supply (the best thing in there, ripped out of the below comp)
And if you think that is powerful check out my two 355 Mhz mobos and cpus, split between one set of peripherals!
It’s got the “X”!
Oh no! And you’ve got my junk on the screen! 
Ooh, but we have the same card reader!
The F1 poster looks great!
Any more news on the Exodus?
theeth’s wonderful blendering machine
P4 1.6 GHz
512 DDR RAM
stupid 32 MB S3 SuperSavage
Martin
you have the animatrix . nice laptop.
Asus A7VPC133 mobo
900 Mhz Athlon
768 M PC133 Ram
Pionex case with 350 W Antec PS
ATI AIW Radeon (7500 chipset w/ 32 M ram)
SB Audigy
Altec Lansing 4.1 speakers
40 Gb Western Digital HD
Lite-on CDRW 12x10x32 (dead, to lasy to remove)
Lite-on 8x DVD± RW
antique 3.5 floppy ( may also be dead, haven’t used it in years )
MS intelimouse trackball
Compaq keyboard (found in trash)
Saitek Cyborg 3d USB joystick I never use.
E-machines 17 in monitor
El-Cheapo modem
Linksys ethernet (ADSL via D-link 604 router)
Linux (kernel 2.6.5 gentoo r1)
Lets see here…
Pentium 3, 900Mhz
386 ram (not sure what it is, other then it isn’t DDR)
40Gig HD
Geforce 4 mx440
Windows Xp Home
My My this computer sucks, I swear once I get a new computer I am going to beat this piece of crap so much its going to be a bunch of dust. Slows down at about 10000 verticies, well thats when I have to start a new project.
P.S hey I got the same speakers as Theeth
my comp is old and sucks :<
933mhz p3
32mb geforce2 gts
256mb ram
slow ass 30 gig hd
and 17" crt
sometime in the next 6 months(or next time i have $5-$6k lying around) getting a high end machine just for 3d
not sure whether to get dual xeons, or dual athlon64s though
i heard amd is better for 3d
but i think the xeons have faster bus…
1.1ghz athlon - window XP
512k ram
ATI radeon 9200
800 mhz p3 - red hat 9
256k ram
nvidia Geforce2
1.7 ghz p4 - window 2000
512k ram
nvidia Geforce4