xeunox Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 I'm looking to buy a Machine specifically for 3d visualisation. My question is, specific to 3dsmax and mental ray, what would be the ideal hardware setup to get to be able to produce rather high quality imagery in a relatively fast time. Not 9 hours per frame like I'm currently doing...(a4 150dpi for print, 300 dpi just kills my pc. I've not yet rendered a standard PAL video, because it just dies after frame 5, and thats using standard PAL resolution) My only true bottle neck at the moment is render, and with me being sort of a perfectionist, if I've missed something and only see it in the render I'm not happy and usually end up re-rendering. Dell or IBM brands with all their whoo haa is great and all but i'm not prepaired to pay an extra 20k just for the name. Current config (approximately 2 years old) Windows XP 32bit SP2 AMD 64 4000+ 2gig 400 ddr2 memory Nvidia 6800 GT Geforce screen card 750Gb of drive space high end Asus mobo bought recently 2 months after my previous one melted.... Please explain in terms of 3dsmax or mental ray, what it will do for me so i don't get bullsh*tted by the next it guy. Thanks X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesht Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 since you are looking for speed, i suggest a dual quad core xeon would be a good choice. a good graphic card plays a part too, and to fully utilized max and mental ray, use a 64bit OS and 64bit max, they are more preferred for their capability to handle huge memory. i have the frustrating experience of long render times, considering my office pc is the 2nd generation dual xeons compared to a dual quad xeons. so, if you can spare a bit of cash, go for the highest speed available, a good graphics card, 64bit windows and max, and at least a 4Gb RAM. other alternative is to use a hardware renderer, like artvps' Raybox renderer. 3dmax perform best in a 64bit environment. mental ray also do use quite a high amount of memory, so they can handle large amount of data without worrying of running low on memory while rendering high resolution images. so you are planning to build your own specfications or buy off the shelf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xeunox Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 so you are planning to build your own specfications or buy off the shelf? most likely build it myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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