Screamin' machine ordered...
-
Julian...I just count the time from checking "shadows on" to seeing the shadows.
(just did a statistics check of the crowdtest file: 1.1mil edges, 770k faces, 38.9k components...doing this well on that much means I'm doing fine indeed :`)
-
Well, then I don't understand this. We're doing it the same way. SU doesn't scale with the quadcore CPU I have, and your CPU is clocked faster.
Anybody got any ideas?
-
It looks good but have you ever considered custom building one?
I imagine you could save a fair amount of money. 1500 bucks seems kind of steep to me, but then again, it is a pretty good rig. i would have to take the time to look up all the prices, but im pretty sure you could save a few hundred dollars if you are willing to forgo the support, I always do.Aside from my comments about saving money (im all about it) i dont think you can go wrong with that. A 3 ghz core2duo is a sickenly fast processor for the money, and with that 1333 mhz fsb you should have no issues using that ram. But there is the bottleneck, your FSB and motherboard will be much much faster than the memory. You more than likely wont notice it however. Besides, the memory that matches that FSB is crazy expensive still.
-
Masta, fortunately the Core 2 architecture is of such a nature that you don't need high speed RAM to get it to perform well. Obviously faster & quicker RAM does benefit, but as you rightly stated, it comes at a premium (not only the RAM but the motherboard as well - DDR3 RAM and motherboards are rediculously expensive still).
All 3 machines I've had over the last 10 years I've custom built, I'm fortunate to have friends that help me if / when I can't fix things myself - which seldom happens. Besides, you always have the manufacturer warrentee to fall back on should a component fail.
Advertisement