Hello,
It seems to me the digital world is occupied by gamers only. But I found out the real world is scary or game-like enough with young ladies walking around as they are, without them being heavily armed and scarcely dressed.
I use my desktop pc as a workstation, and at this moment I am working at several projects using PhotoModeler.
The desktop-configuration I am going to replace is nearly 5 years old and consists of an Intel Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.4 GHz., 8 GB RAM, Asus P5W DH Deluxe mobo, nVidia quad NVS 440 graphic card, and Vista Bus. 64 bit OS. (Vista always worked fine)
Rendering quality textures in some projects takes about 4 hours, and even as I hope to become 100 years old, and interested third party's can easily wait half a day to see results, this is a bit of a nuisance.
Now in the mean time engineers and developers did their utmost best, and I plan to plug the following into an Asus P8Z68-V Pro mobo:
IC i7-2600K, 8GB kit DDR3, OCZ RevoDrive 3 120GB raid0 and a 1TB WD Caviar blue sata3 HDD. RevoDrive for OS and programs only. HDD for data.
I hope this will speed up things, but if someone says it does not, because I am not a gamer, I will happily take that as an answer.
It is somewhat frustrating to find that all advice about graphic cards boils down to advice for gamers(e.g. GeForce-like heavyweights) and not for workstation users ( = Quadro cards).
This is why perhaps I intend to stick to my old Quad NVS440 (256 MB).
1)Would it speed up rendering even more after installation of a nVidia Quadro 2000 (1 TB)?
2)Does making a 30 GB cache-partition in the SSD improve things in terms of speed? I hate to partition in SSD.
Remember; after rendering, the PhotoModeler-result hardly moves in the display like in World at War etc. Think of AutoCad etc.
It seems to me the digital world is occupied by gamers only. But I found out the real world is scary or game-like enough with young ladies walking around as they are, without them being heavily armed and scarcely dressed.
I use my desktop pc as a workstation, and at this moment I am working at several projects using PhotoModeler.
The desktop-configuration I am going to replace is nearly 5 years old and consists of an Intel Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.4 GHz., 8 GB RAM, Asus P5W DH Deluxe mobo, nVidia quad NVS 440 graphic card, and Vista Bus. 64 bit OS. (Vista always worked fine)
Rendering quality textures in some projects takes about 4 hours, and even as I hope to become 100 years old, and interested third party's can easily wait half a day to see results, this is a bit of a nuisance.
Now in the mean time engineers and developers did their utmost best, and I plan to plug the following into an Asus P8Z68-V Pro mobo:
IC i7-2600K, 8GB kit DDR3, OCZ RevoDrive 3 120GB raid0 and a 1TB WD Caviar blue sata3 HDD. RevoDrive for OS and programs only. HDD for data.
I hope this will speed up things, but if someone says it does not, because I am not a gamer, I will happily take that as an answer.
It is somewhat frustrating to find that all advice about graphic cards boils down to advice for gamers(e.g. GeForce-like heavyweights) and not for workstation users ( = Quadro cards).
This is why perhaps I intend to stick to my old Quad NVS440 (256 MB).
1)Would it speed up rendering even more after installation of a nVidia Quadro 2000 (1 TB)?
2)Does making a 30 GB cache-partition in the SSD improve things in terms of speed? I hate to partition in SSD.
Remember; after rendering, the PhotoModeler-result hardly moves in the display like in World at War etc. Think of AutoCad etc.