Recommendation for faster rendering computer

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on January 6, 2012 at 7:28am

You don't mention whether your existing computer has a  32 or 64 bit operating system.

I am not familiar with Mark BOXX.

64 bits with at least 4GB of RAM is best.

Get as many cores as you can afford. (You currently have 2)

Does anyone else have a recommendation?

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Permalink Reply by Carlo Di Matteo on January 6, 2012 at 8:27am

I HAVE 64 BITS

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Permalink Reply by Carlo Di Matteo on January 6, 2012 at 8:30am

Carlo Di Matteo said:

I HAVE 64 BITS

THIS IS THE LINK http://boxxtech.com/index.asp

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on January 6, 2012 at 10:13am

The Dual processor, 12-core total, RenderBOXX at 2.4 GHZ would be 5 times fraster than your current 2-core 2.8GHZ machine.

But I can't get information about what it costs without sending them my email address.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Halls on January 7, 2012 at 3:46am

Hi

I use a Quad core (Intel Core i5) machine with a 64bit windows 7 home premium OS.

It only has 3Gb Ram but has very acceptable render times.As has been mentioned before on these forums, the graphics card is not an issue - it's all about processor performance, the more cores the better.

A neat trick in irenderNXT is I can assign 3 of my cores to the render and leave a core free to use when the render is happening in the background.

Mine was not an expensive machine ( £450 , 450GBP) from a high street computer store in the UK.

My advice would be go for the best deal you can get on a machine with the most cores your budget will run to !

Regards

Mike

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Permalink Reply by Chris Traxler on January 7, 2012 at 8:26am

Are there plans to utilize GPUs for rendering? Wouldn't that bring A LOT?

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on January 10, 2012 at 10:39am

We are looking into this. But don't have any specific plans yet.

Chris Traxler said:

Are there plans to utilize GPUs for rendering? Wouldn't that bring A LOT?

Chris

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Permalink Reply by rollie welker on November 20, 2014 at 12:11pm

no GPU rendering ???? And not even thinking about it ???
you must be kidding me? / Us.

NP I'll just take  my .skp models to Blender, Cycles For free.

time to get with the times.

other than that Irender seems to work, It's pretty modular which is very nice!

Thank you, and sorry for the above

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on November 21, 2014 at 12:40pm

I believe my post was "We are looking into this. But don't have any specific plans yet."

That is different than: "And not even thinking about it"

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