Hardware for Rendering and Animation
Hardware for Rendering and Animation
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I know this question is coming up from time to time but I will put it again (things change):
What will be an optimum configuration to run reasonably well SW2007, Animator and Photoworks? Processor, videocard, memory, monitor, etc.
Your answer will be greatly appreciate. If you send me to "Search", please give me the keyword to search for. The FAQs in this matter are quite old so, I guess, not very useful.
Thanks
What will be an optimum configuration to run reasonably well SW2007, Animator and Photoworks? Processor, videocard, memory, monitor, etc.
Your answer will be greatly appreciate. If you send me to "Search", please give me the keyword to search for. The FAQs in this matter are quite old so, I guess, not very useful.
Thanks






RE: Hardware for Rendering and Animation
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RE: Hardware for Rendering and Animation
Ram is also a good investment and I would reccomend no less than 2 gigs and no more than 4 gigs unless you have a 64 bit OS.
I like 20" widescreen monitors but I noticed the 24" widescreens are about $600 at Dell. Thats pretty cheap.
I'm not sure about the video card. I typically buy a midrange Nvidea card. Something with 256 megs of ram. I think the larger your assemblies the more video memory you'll want?
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RE: Hardware for Rendering and Animation
Your budget is the determining factor of what acceptable performance will be.
RE: Hardware for Rendering and Animation
As to hardware go for top end cpus (they do the grunt work) intel conroe dualies (6800ee would be the best at moment.) Intel currently has best performing cpus but dont knock a high end opteron system (i think pixar uses them from memory).
Memory as per above recomendations
Yep dell has good prices on 24" screens (as seen 2 months ago)
Cheers lads
RE: Hardware for Rendering and Animation
Are those dollars? Are you in the US? If so you need to change your reseller. My guess is that you're in Australia, in which case you're still paying almost twice as much as in the US.
-b
RE: Hardware for Rendering and Animation
Close mate I am in New Zealand
Part of the reason sw costs so much is our bad dollar vs American dollar + GST(12.5% Goods and Services Tax)
There is only one reseller in NZ so there happens to be a monopoly for them (MS anyone??)
The VAR actually is very good and I have no complaints about them and their service especially my account manager.
He has been very supportive.
Cheers lads
RE: Hardware for Rendering and Animation
Multiple cores for rendering makes the time fly, particularly in animations when you've got so many frames to render.
Check out the Cadalyst.com reviews--recent stuff on multiple cores puts Xi Computer at the top of the value heap once again. Good stuff to read when considering what to buy for such a machine, whether building yourself or getting a system pre-built like I do with Xi.
If you're stuck with a practical but limited 32-bit OS, enable the /3GB switch in your boot.ini file and get up to 3GB of usable RAM. (Even with less RAM, the switch will work for you to limit the RAM allocated to the porky XP OS.)
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