Computer Specs - Render Question

jf3000 · May 23rd, 2006, 12:37 AM

Just out of curiosity, what are the specs for a machine that can handle a good size render?

I know it would come down to a good graphics card, because most people seem to have everything else, I just wanted to know this as im gearing towards this area of render.

Thank you.

gmd3d · May 23rd, 2006, 02:32 AM

I think apart from a good Graphic card is enough RAM on the PC .... AND the time spent rendering will depend on whats in the scene .. As I am a lightwave user I find a number of thing slow down the process..

1 Radiosity
2 Hypervoxels

jf3000 · May 23rd, 2006, 02:59 AM

well I am using an amd 3.2 with 2 gigs of ram, and i only have a radeon 9600 256meg ram, so something is definately slowing me down, so i figured it would be the card.

gmd3d · May 23rd, 2006, 03:10 AM

you have more ram than me.. I dream of 2 gigs of Ram. there is an excellent Lightwave forum for techical questions
http://www.lwg3d.org/v3/index.htm .. and a lot of lessions and help

jf3000 · May 23rd, 2006, 03:44 AM

Okay thank you for your assistance, now if I could only find scenes that people have made that are complete.

Also for the price of ram these days its cheap, so guess depends where u r in the world, i live in Australia and get my stock from the disk shop :

http://www.thediscshop.com.au

Anyways thanks for the help.