From: 3D Bastard <3dbastard@rankudo.com>
To: 3DSMAX@Engram.net <3DSMAX@Engram.net>
Subject: Re: dual proc doubts
Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 8:38 AM

I think you might not be comparing the most important pieces of hardware.
The graphics card handles most of the rendering process, and if you have IDE
Hard Drives on the Dual machine and SCSI on the Single, that might also
account for the performance difference.

Ben

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From: Abey George <abey@saudionline.com.sa>
To: <3DSMAX@Engram.net>; BT <axeman@bah.net>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 2:26 AM
Subject: dual proc doubts


>
>     Hi there..
> Thanks for all the replies.
> The suggestions were to reduce faces ( which I did)...check that
> multithreading was enabled..(was already enabled..)......and a brief idea
of
> where max actually uses multi-threading while rendering...
> I was just about to live with the fact that my processors would only go
upto
> 60% utilization when I got another shock....my colleague.. decided to
render
> the same file on a single p3 -550 processor machine (256 mb ram..) on
win98
> and it took a whole minute and a half less to render than the dual p3 -550
> processor machine..(256 mb ram) on win nt server..!!!!!
> Yours perplexedly
> Abey
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