From: "Chad Capeland" To: "MAX List" <3dsmax@EngramDigital.com> Subject: Re: Dual Processors Date: Saturday, March 11, 2000 10:51 AM Actually, RAM only speeds things up if you actually use it. If you don't, it slows down the computer and increases the chance of hardware failure. The trick is knowing how much you need and budgeting for it. We have a dual P3 463 at work with 640 MB, and it runs MUCH SLOWER than our single Athlon 850 with 384MB. Something like 16 minutes a frame compared to 6.5 minutes a frame. The project we are working on now has been refined enough to fit in a small memory footprint, so the FPU of the Athlon crushes the PIII's memory advantage. The PIII machine is still the king of Photoshop, though. It's nice to be able to work on high resolution textures with tons of layers. Besides, if you make scenes that require 1GB of RAM, you'll have to make a renderfarm with 1GB of RAM in each machine. -Chad Capeland John Rankin wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, T Goodwin wrote: > > > So my question has to be:- what is the best way of speeding up > > modelling/editing operations? > > > > I always thought dual processors would help general operations but if > > the 2nd processor is only used for rendering what can I do for more > > speed? > ========== > Tom, > Ram, Ram and then some more - as much as you can cram > in... I have a Dual Xeon with 1024Ram and 96Mg GMX card > and it does perform well in comparison to my home system > - a Dual 550 PIII 256Ram with a 32Mg Oxygen Card. > RAM makes the difference. > > John R. > -- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: > http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX > List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net