First render test on new laptop

[HornOxx]

...ja, good news! - at some point in "this game" there always comes a point where we have to catch up with our computers.

[Rich O Brien]

A 16x to 32x speed boost is some leap.

Its a good time to move to 20xx or 30xx nVidia GPUs with the 40xx announcement.

Looking forward to seeing that Nadesico Cruiser getting some path tracing love!

[Mike Amos]

[tuna1957]

Good to see you up and running on the new machine . Looking forward to new work

[Bryan K]

Thanks everyone!

I will be putting it into production by this weekend. I'm waiting on a new dock and then adding all the plug-ins I use, back to SU. My old dock only works on the old laptop. It's an old click mount dock.

New dock has the USB C that I need.

[Bryan K]

@rich o brien said:

A 16x to 32x speed boost is some leap.

Its a good time to move to 20xx or 30xx nVidia GPUs with the 40xx announcement.

Looking forward to seeing that Nadesico Cruiser getting some path tracing love!

Already got a scene in mind!

[Bryan K]

1000 samples (passes) in 24 minutes. My... my head hurts.

I put a little more effort into this render and changed the lighting settings, which made it run even faster.

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[ntxdave]

Real progress from the first post. Me likey!

[Bryan K]

Thanks ntxdave!

[tuna1957]

Excellent start with the new machine

[Bryan K]

Thanks tuna!

Again, these are just test renders. I see problems with both, but this is just to get an idea of what the new PC can do.

[Mike Amos]

You are clearly on the fast track mate.

[Bryan K]

@mike amos said:

You are clearly on the fast track mate.

Thanks Mike!

Just got it set up with the new dock and it is now my desk production PC. The old one s going to the bedroom for late night YouTube.

Still need to load all the plug-ins back to SU and do some other tweaking, but the hard parts are done.

[Bryan K]

After a full week of testing and configuring the new laptop, here is the update.

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