Video Card Upgrade
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Thanks guys.
As for "each card is like $3k or $4k" damn I would expect the computer to do the drawings itself having just fetched me a cup of tea
Seriously tho, I think I might have been a bit harsh on my new set up. It is amazing how demanding we CAD people are. I just downloaded an older model that gave my computer a hard time and the new set up was pretty smooth in comparrison.
I think you are on to something with the harddrive. Just ran the windows test thingy and the harddrive dragged my average right down.
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Just wanted to chime in to say that a powerful graphics card is a good investment now that more and more renderers use it in one way or another: Indigo, Thea, Lumion, LightUp, Lumen RT, Octane... So even thought SketchUp itself might not benefit a lot, you will benefit when you render with those programs (and others I'm forgetting). And, quite ironically, most of these rendering programs benefit more from a gaming card.
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as with this last post... Lumion I believe uses Gaming tech to produce live render... a GTX680 should zoom in it.
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Had a mess about with Lumion and it is much much faster than before. Good times
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You have an impressive card...
In Lumion, what's your typical render time per frame at 720p? -
yeah I can't bring myself to do it... I would love to see what it's like to have one though. some comparison.
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Not doen any renders yet, just had a quick look around a model. When I do I will mail you
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Hey Ecuadorian
Rendered my first Lumion movie yesterday and the average frame render time was 2.9 seconds at 720p and 5.3 seconds at full HD. I have not overclocked the graphics card, processor or ram so am sure I could pull those times down a little bit more.
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I also have a video card question. I am using a xfx radeon 6970 graphics card at the moment, I have the option to upgrade and add another xfx radeon 6970 graphics card and run crossfire for cheap. Sketchup runs fine, but I don't want to spend the extra money on an extra graphics card if I don't need too. However I would like to start using rendering programs like Auto desk Maya to give some polish looks to some designs. Do I need the extra grunt for these sorts of rendering programs? I have no experience in this area so any advice will do.
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SketchUp will not benefit from an extra card. As for rendering: you need to find out with each rendering application whether they support GPU based rendering AND if they also support multiple cards. This is becoming sort of the way things go nowadays so hopefully more and more apps will have some sort of support in this area.
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