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395€? i paid 940€ for Fry n now i cant use it cuz i've migrated to Max2013.. just sayin' shame about the Forum tho.. they had somethin' good goin' on..

well thats kinda shitty.. i just downloaded Vray for Max2013 n didnt have to pay anything beyond the cost of when i first got it..

hmmm, did i miss something? what happened to the official forum? is there no support now?

did u check to make sure that the CPU load was at 100% ? cuz if u'r rendering the same scene that was originally created on a Q6600 i dont think that Max automatically picks this up.. so since the 2600K is an 8-threaded CPU (as opposed to the Q6600's 4) u'll have to switch off ur render engine n then back to it again to pick up the remaining threads.. at least thats what happened to me with my Q6600 -> i7 switch..

www.engadget.com/2011/01/31/intel-finds-sandy-bridge-chipset-design-flaw-shipments-stopped/ ouch! better hold out on those for now.. or if u have 'em already know that u'll get to replace 'em within month or so.. in the meantime, what people r doing is to switch the drives from the sata2 to the sata3 ports, since those arent affected..

so what u'r saying is that everything works fine, except it just takes 5 minutes? like i said, ur CPU is really weak.. n dont just tell us what u think, open up the Windows Task Manager n grab the RAM readings on both overall usage n just the usage for Max (during the not-responding msg).. at least u'r showing improvement, answering 1 question out of a whole set.. answers like "yea, i think so" or "but someone else said its ok" really contribute nothing to this.. was this other person's CPU the same as urs? was the operating system the same? was it also 32bits or was it 64bits?

the solution is to start by figuring out the answers to the questions that i've asked, to which u've answered none.. did u give it time to process (if so, how much) or did u close it as soon as u see the msg saying it stopped responding? did u check the amount of RAM being used at the time, both by just the main application n the overall system usage?

wow! a quad-CPU system! definately not smart to use it as a WorkStation, as most of the time we'd be building our scene, having all those cores just sittin' there idling, adding to the power bill, still.. i wouldnt even use a dual-CPU system as a WS.. it just doesnt make sense to me when we've got things like Distributed Rendering.. i'd even settle for the beefiest dual-core (single-CPU system) i could find, then sending all the rendering work to the slaves.. lookin' at it closer im not sure it would even be a good idea to use the quad-CPU as a slave.. obviously its very expensive, but on the other hand we'd only be gettin' 1 set of RAM + 1 motherboard + 1 PSU, as opposed to double that for 2 dual-CPU systems.. anyways, it would be a matter of doing the math.. again, "Distributed Rendering".. lookin' at the link in the first post, what catches my eye is the following: sure the quad-CPU system beats all else.. but look at for instance the [Dual CPU] Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz.. if u get 2 of these systems u'd be matching up to the quad-CPU system in terms of cores, but ending up costing less n even performing better according to the scores on that chart.. now this is just an example, im sure there r even better ones.. im not so much on top of things in terms of CPU roadmaps n stuff, but now that we got the Sandy Bridge i suspect they'll be making Xeon versions of it?

ur system is really weak.. probably needs a lot of time to process large amounts of calculations.. just because it stopped responding doesnt mean it isnt progressing with the operation.. how long have u waited for it to start responding again? my guess is u should try n wait at least a couple hours counting from the time it stops responding.. just try to wait as long as u can (if the physical RAM is depleted n its begun to use PageFile resources then it could take even longer)..

@Travis perhaps Jeff, being a color wiz n all, would have some insight about that..

good job then.. by the time u grow a grey wig u will have saved up a hundra dolla i'd rather go nuts n spend another $45 on an i5 2500K (also with integrated graphics) which will beat the snot outta the AMD..

@ (sorry, i cant see ur name): not long.. it can be just a matter of only a few months, if u actually work with Rendering that is.. for each month that goes by, the AMD impacts almost 1/3rd on the energy bill over the Intel.. so with that in mind u can do ur math if u wanna find out how many months before the AMD actually starts to become more expensive than the Intel investment..

so what? in order to win by a hair ur AMD CPU had to get 50% more Cores n require over 30% more power consumption.. thats kinda like sayin' ur car beat another car in a race cuz u beefed up ur engine n spent a truckload of money on jet fuel.. just to barely win..

heh, its kinda funny how i keep seeing ppl with all the latest versions of Windows n 3dsmax, but then when it comes to Vray they all still got v1.5.. btw, did u just post Evermotion's copyrighted content there?

oh man, look at that i5 2500K, almost 5 times cheaper than the 6core n it almost catches up, being just a 4core n all.. [ATTACH=CONFIG]40697[/ATTACH] Source