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Best,
Nathan.
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From: Carrara@(protected) [mailto:Carrara@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Ringo Monfort
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:48 PM
To: Carrara@(protected)
Subject: RE: [Carrara] Re: Which Video Card to buy?
Nathan,
You got yourself a very nice system there....can I have it. LOL>
That should for all your rendering needs and video stuff.
We may ask you to render some stuff for us.
Regards.
Ringo
>>> nathan@(protected) 12/7/2005 3:33 PM >>>
This is the first time I have asked a question and I am really, really
impressed.
This group really is helpful.
Thanks all for your responses.
Here is what I came up with:
I went to Fry's got the following: (I'll install later tonight and
report
the findings later)
1. An awesome Video Graphics card: ATI FireGL v5000 ($650 bones)(it's
a
workstation graphics adapter, not a gaming card, with 128 MB GDDR3-
PCI
Express) (pretty darn quick I imagine -- yea, I know it doesn't help
with
rendering... just response time prior to rendering and doing the
setup)
2. Major Memory upgrade: 2GB UP - total now 3GB
3. Intel 830 socket 775 D processor 3.0 GHz (I thought it was too
expensive
at this point to convert everything over to AMD -- I'll do that later
and
use this machine as a rendering node later)
4. More disk space - 250GB WD - 16MB cache - SATA2 DRIVE (300MB/sec)
To clairify, I am not new to 3D, just had more work lately that takes
more
time to render. I have been into Carrara since before it was ever
called
carrara. I have upgraded all the way back to Ray Dream Designer!!!
Ray Dream Designer, Ray Dream Studio, 3, 4, Carrara, Carrara 2, 3, 4,
and
now 5!! BETTER with each upgrade!
It is now better than ever. I really approve of the interface changes
and
updates. It never left you feeling lost.
NICE!!!
Let you all know later how this machine roars!
Best,
Nathan.
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From: Carrara@(protected) [mailto:Carrara@(protected)] On
Behalf Of
Harvey White
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:32 PM
To: Carrara@(protected)
Subject: Re: [Carrara] Re: Which Video Card to buy?
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:56:22 -0800, you wrote:
>So my best money is spent on CPU, memory and disks? (like SATA 10K
drives??)
I'd go CPU first, memory second, disks last. Unless you see your
disk drive working very hard during a render, all you need is storage
space and backup, not speed. If you see the drives working hard
during a render, then it's most likely that you are suffering from low
memory, and the OS is swapping out memory to disk.
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>I already have a P4 3.2 which isn't the fastest out there, but is
pretty
>fast, but I was thinking that a better than basic PCI Express card
would
>help.
What the graphics card will do is to speed up the on-screen redraws.
However, if you have the worlds fastest graphics card, and a slow
processor, then no gain.
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>SO ....
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>What you're saying is spend money on LOTS of FAST ram. (like 4 GB?)
>Is that my best bang for buck at this point?
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>Wouldn't you suggest I buy a 7800 GTX OC 256 GDDR3 or something?
>Right now I have the basic ATI PCI Express card.
Oh if you want one, go get it, but don't think that it will really
speed up the rendering.
You'd spend your money better, if you really need fast rendering, to
get a dual core processor. Your other options would be to take your
existing system (once you do that), and then network it to your main
system and use it as a render node. For this, you will need C5 pro.
You could also get a dual processor motherboard, but that will need a
dual processor capable (or multi-processor capable) OS. WinXP PRO is
needed, not home. If you're on a Mac, I don't know the OS at all...
Harvey
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>Will that speed things up considerably?
Again, the graphics capability of the card is not used at all in
rendering an image, merely displaying it on the screen.
H.
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>Best,
>Nathan.
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>From: Carrara@(protected) [mailto:Carrara@(protected)] On
Behalf Of
>Steve Taylor
>Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:58 AM
>To: Carrara@(protected)
>Subject: [Carrara] Re: Which Video Card to buy?
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>Graphics cards have no effect on rendering speed, thats all due to
>the processor. If you want to increase the speed look at upgrading
>the motherboard, memory and CPU.
>
>--- In Carrara@(protected), "Nathan" <nathan@(protected)> wrote:
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>> Who knows the best PCI EXPRESS card that money will buy - for
>> rendering in Carrara 4/5?
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>> I would like to spend between $300 and $1200 on a way-bitchen card
>> that will dramatically increase speed of rendering on this machine:
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>> MB: Fatal1ty (ABIT) FATAL1TY AA8XE
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>> 3.2 GHz P4
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>> 1GB RAM (I plan to get more ram)
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>> SATA 10K startup drive, others 7200 (300GB total) Plus External
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>> The motherboard has two 'PCIE' Slots about 1 inch long. What are
>> these for? (can I add more hardware for greater speed in video?)
>>
>> Should I be looking to buy ATI, or NVIDIA?
>>
>> So far I have put my finger on a NVIDIA 6800 class card -- is this
>> the best choice?
>>
>> Eovia support/sales say OPEN GL 2.0 support for the card is
>> important, and that typical 'GAMING' Cards are not very fast for
>> Carrara.
>>
>>
>> FAST RENDERING is what I am after.
>>
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