You'd think Blender would run better...

#41

I upgraded the G41T-M5 to 4Gb RAM and added a Galaxy GT620 2Gb RAM graphics card.

The GT620 is the lowest-end graphics card from the 600-series. It should be no surprise you’ve got performance bottlenecks. That card is great for MS Office or maybe Photoshop, but for 3D… You really couldn’t do much worse. No offense, but that’s certainly a huge bottleneck.

As for using a TV instead of an actual monitor… Well, that’s rather ridiculous, but if it’s keeping you working then keep at it! Just don’t expect any precision, print compatibility, or decent imaging from it.

Really you need the proper tools for the job. There are many such proper tools, but you’ve listed none here.

#42

620 isn’t going to cut it, eh? Well there are a number of possibilities stemming from that. I could be certain it recommended graphics, but I can go a bit deeper (no pun intended), buy a better card, knowing the Galaxy cards works in my machine, and use that one in some other machine. I’m planning to upgrade the OS to 64bit before too awful long. Beyond that I wouldn’t mind getting a better card.

#43

Ultimately it has to be up to you to decide what parts to buy, its your machine and your budget, we dont know your financial situation etc. But I have to say, whilst the parts you have picked will work, they are all the absolute bottom end minimum possible to run the software. In car terms, its like telling us you plan to go camping with the wife and three kids and will need to tow a trailer… and then informing us youve just bought a 700cc fiat micro car to do it with. Whilst it will technically work, its on the absolute border of what will work and give you the worst possible performance.

eg. $60 would have bought you a nice fast 4-core 3.8ghz amd cpu, instead youve saved the price of a big mac and fries and gone with a cpu which is less than a third of the speed. The same goes for the gfx card, the 620 card is the absolute pits, its so slow that many of the 620 dont even need a fan to cool them. If this is genuinely as far as your budget stretched, then fair enough, but I think its best to inform you that spending a tiny fraction more would net you a substantially better machine.

#44

Casually low budget for now. My guess? After the dilemma that yes, fortunately, is a new roof leak, I’ll start investing a Ben every month, 5 Bens once in a while and by the end of next year I should have 3 or 4 decent machines around here to do a lot of decent things with, so detailed opinions are always welcome. I figure I’ll just keep looking for bargains and this seems to a good thread to refer to.

Thanx

#45

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