Need some Hardware help/advice

#1

Hi frens,

I have a GTX 670, 16 gig ram, I-7 3770k @ 3.50 GHZ (8 cpus)

and a gigabyte mobo,

I’m just starting to put together a very short film, and my 3ds max is getting really laggy and crashes every now and again when i start putting on a bunch of materials and maps. I intend to use a render farm to render out my scene,

So im not looking for a rendering setup, but im a little disappointed that my rig isn’t treating me well when i’m getting 500k to 1million polys. I’ve gone up to 5 million polys in mudbox without much problem.

long story short, is there anything i can improve in my rig that would make some difference? Everything i have is pretty good imo, but its obviously not that great if i’m having problems like this.

Should I buy more ram? New video card? different cpu? i have about a 2500 dollar budget to improve things if need be.

thanks for any input

#2

That setup should be able to throw around multi million poly scenes no problem. I have a very similar setup (older graphics card but more RAM) and it handles large scenes without any problems. This is with CINEMA 4D that usually isn’t as fast with large scenes as is max.
Don’t compare the number of polys a sculpting app can handle with that of a usual DCC app, they work very differently internaly.
I would look for other reasons than the hardware.

#3

When i was using AMD cpu’s, i would chain the cores together, (forgot what they called it) so it drastically increased performance when using a single program but was definitely more sluggish when using multiple programs where the extra cores became more useful.

i haven’t seen anything like that in the bios of my cpu,

when i look at the benchmarks for my cpu vs the 3930k, for 3d apps its usually slightly faster.

i’m also using a 128 SSD, so i really thought i would be getting better performance,

autodesk tech support just told me to reinstall before i go forward, but i dont really want to do that on my SSD. i can’t think of a single app that reinstalling fixed performance issues

#4

Ive never heard of chaning together cpus… the cpu cores handle themselves. And a 128 gig SSD generally wont make anything faster except booting, loading apps and temp files.

#5

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