Whats Your PC Spec ?

[Erik Heyninck]

Just take a look at the Cinebench thread.

[AdamT]

Originally posted by Scott M C4D
Hiya,
It's not a specific C4D question but what is your pc spec or recomended standard for using Cinema R8.1 ?
It's maybe been asked before but i justy though i would ask anyway.
Am planning on getting a good new Athlon 2500 or higher for as cheap as possible with a card like a Msi FX5600.

TIME looks like they have good spec Pc's. Anyone had any experience with them ?
Cheers
That should be more than adequate, so long as you throw in at least 512mb ram and maybe a hard drive. ;)

[JIII]

yeah a hard drive that would be good. Don't forget your monitor either lol.

[imashination]

http://www.imashination.com/hardware.html

http://www.imashination.com/bench.html

Have fun.

[squidinc]

don't buy a full machine, build your own, it'll be cheaper most likely, but if you really don't want to or don't know how, Dell are probably the best prefab machines, we use a lot of them in work and they seem to work most of the time.

my machine is getting on a bit, I think I'll build a multiprocessor monster next, anyway here it is

Athlon XP 2100
512 mb DDR RAM
80 gb WD caviar HD
GeForce 3 64meg

[dpvtank]

Intel Pentium 3
800 Mhz
368 Mb of SDRAM
20 gig hardrive.
Nvidia TNT2 - 16 Mb


now don't laugh at me :(

[modestmouse]

P4 - 1.7 ghz
80 gig hard drive
256 mb RDRAM (aka shit sticks)
Geforce FX 5200 128mb tv out

NEVER GET RDRAM!!!
Thats my computer.

CINEBENCH 2003 v1
****************************************************

Tester : modestmouse

Processor : Dell Dimension 8200
MHz : 1.7 Ghz
Number of CPUs : 1
Operating System : Windows XP

Graphics Card : Geforce FX 5200 128 mb
Resolution : 1280*1024
Color Depth : 32 bit

****************************************************

Rendering (Single CPU): 145 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): --- CB-CPU


Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 163 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 729 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 1113 CB-GFX

OpenGL Speedup: 6.81

****************************************************

[LucentDreams]

ATwo boths consisting of tubes, one consisting of many fans, a power button on each, and lots of fancy lights

[cookepuss]

PC #1
--------
Pentium 4 3.06GHz (Hyperthreading enabled)
2.0gb DDR RAM
Two 100gb Western Digital setup in Raid-0 striped config
GeForce4 Ti 128meg

PC #2
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Pentium 4 3.06GHz (Hyperthreading enabled)
1.0gb DDR RAM
Two 100gb Western Digital setup in Raid-0 striped config
80gb Maxtor
GeForce4 Ti 128meg

PC #3
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Pentium 3 1.0GHz
1.0gb RAM
80gb Maxtor
13gb Maxtor
GeForce2 Ultra 64meg


All of them are networked naturally.

[dpvtank]

everyone has a better comp them me
:annoyed:

playing ut2k3 is a dream for me..

[fxgogo]

Just upgraded to:

AMD 2500+ Barton
MSI K7N2 Delta L motherboard
1gig Crucial 2700 ram
2 80gig Maxtor IDE 7200rpm drives
Dual 17inch monitors (cant live without 2)
Chaintech G-force4ti 4200 128mb
Creative Audigy Platinum

So I am a happy Chappie

[flingster]

athon 2gig
1gig ram
leadtek geforce4600
only one 19"monitor..
....i want more ram!!! and more processors!!!

just how expensive are dual processor machines!! will i really see the benefits in rendering times????

:scream:

[imashination]

My new toy (http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/product_page.jsp?z=171&service=UK&PRODUCT_ID=62644) + 1gig & 802.11g

The woman has a nice Athlon 3000, Radeon 9800 Pro, 1.5gigs, 23" Apple screen.

Render machines are all 3gig P4s with a gig.

[kromekat]

G4 1Ghz
1.25Gb RAM
GeForce 4MX 64Mb
70Gb HD
120Gb Ext. FW HD
Formac 21" Flat

Networked with

G4 400Mhz
512Mb RAM
ATI RAGE128 16Mb
40Gb HD
Formac 17" Flat

My PC's are Macs (awaiting the barage of insults prevalent here)

;)

[flingster]

we love maccies....and pceeeeeee's....:love:

[knight42]

2Ghz Athlon XP 2400+, 512Mb RAM, GeForce 4800 ti. Don't get a PC from TIme, they're pants, of the highest order.

J

[AdamT]

Comp 1: Dual 2.4Ghz Xeons, 2Gb RAM, Ti-4600

Comp 2: AMD 1.3Ghz, 512Mb RAM, Radeon 9000

Comp 3: 800mhz Celeron, 256Mb RAM, GF2

[Halogen]

Pentium 3 500
310mb SDRam
TNT2 - 16mb
10 gig hdd & 8 gig
Poor 17" monitor

You have a new crap computer contender dpvtank. Oh yea, this computer isnt even mine! Mine is a Pentium 2 233, but lets not talk about that :blush: . Well now you should have more respect for the works i turn out >=[ :)

[RusMan]

Well, mine is really slow:

Celeron 700mhz
320mb sdram
14Gb HD
onboard intel i820 video:thumbsdow
a crappy kds 17" monitor

PLUS it's a compaq

never buy a compaq people, you'll kill yourself later.:p , I promise:)

[Ibox]

Celeron 400
256 megs ram
16 meg 128 bit ATI v card

I am so pathetic hahahahahahahaha

but... it worx for me :D I am so happy :D

[geoffb]

just how expensive are dual processor machines!! will i really see the benefits in rendering times????

I have seen dual Athlon 2500XP's and the motherboard, comboed for like $600, so get that and swap out you motherboard and cpu and there you go. And yes rendering times should be cut in half, because Cinema takes advantage of the extra processor during rendering, instead of one line going down rendering, you'll see two. Its amazing to watch.

My PC
-------------
Athlon 1.2Ghz T-Bird
500MB RAM
40Gig HD
64MB GeForce 4
-------------

I was gonna upgrade to a dual processor and then the new G5's came out.:drool: So i decided to wait a year and then get one when i graduate, and then I have a old PC and a new state-of-the-art MAC!!!:applause: :drool: :applause:

Geoff

[AdamT]

Originally posted by geoffb
I have seen dual Athlon 2500XP's and the motherboard, comboed for like $600, so get that and swap out you motherboard and cpu and there you go. And yes rendering times should be cut in half, because Cinema takes advantage of the extra processor during rendering, instead of one line going down rendering, you'll see two. Its amazing to watch.

Or if you have dual Xeons with hyperthreading you see *four* lines going down. Looks like venetian blinds opening up on your render. ;)

[flingster]

i quite fancied 2 xeons with this hyperthreading and srek pointed out cinema makes use of it...but increase was not as significant as you might think...what sort of price do they start at then...presumably being intel...high!
:shrug:

adamt: i saw somewhere when you posted in the past some render times...amazing...i want that...its the one thing that hacks me off...the render wait...i go through phases of liking the break part and absolutely loathing it!! wierd huh.

[kromekat]

Originally posted by AdamT
Or if you have dual Xeons with hyperthreading you see *four* lines going down. Looks like venetian blinds opening up on your render. ;)

Amazing! - It never ocurred to me that it would work that way - I always assumed MP's woul simply work together on the one pass, not that they would work kind of independantly like that.

[Katachi]

Athlon XP 3000+ Barton
1.5 Gig RAM
GeForce FX5600
120 Gig HD

[Thalaxis]

Originally posted by kromekat
Amazing! - It never ocurred to me that it would work that way - I always assumed MP's woul simply work together on the one pass, not that they would work kind of independantly like that.

One nice quirk of raytracing is that you can do the calculations for
each ray independently of each other ray. That's why raytracers
can make such good use out of multiple processors. Maxon's is
particularly smart about using raytracing vs scanline rendering,
and also in when it assigns work to a render thread.

[unclebob]

AMD 1800+
1GB PC2100 ram
2 40GB HD
GForce II w/64MB ram
19" ViewSonic PerfectFlat CRT

mouse
oh yeah...
keyboard too :rolleyes:

[MoThBall]

Dell Intell 2.4Ghz
512 Ram
GForce 4 Ti 4200
80GB HDD
21" Screen

pretty good for checking Emails.

[Emberghost]

Athlon xp 2700 :drool:
Gigabyte Ga-7n400 pro mobo :eek:
MSI G4 Ti-4200 :hmm:
80 gig hard drive
400w Sparkle ps
512 mb 2100 ram :annoyed:

Works great for me!

[dAfTiE]

XP 1800+ (1533 MHz), a gig o' PC2100, a nice Gainward GF4 4400,
buncha drives,and all the other stuff,like monitor,mouse and a kvm switch to use with:
P3 700 with 768 SDRAM,even more drives, running debian at the moment,
and there's also my poor li'l p160 laptop with like 32 megs of ram...that thing FLIES :)
Works like a charm with Win95a tho...ouch:rolleyes:

Wanna get myself a new XP 3200+ barton based setup,so I can use that one as my new linux box :)
Been thinking about demoting windows to the 700 for a while now, maybe get Gentoo running on the 1800...mmmmm

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