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[dlparisi]

you will of course still wait for renders. its an unwritten rule that you can never have enough renderpower! youll just be more ambitious and your renders will take just as long as before. my animations have been hitting 1 hr a frame for the last 15 years.

Agreed. I remember distinctly about 10 years ago weighing whether a material REALLY needed blurry reflections due to the render time hit. And If I did decide it needed them and weigh using interpolated reflections. Now practically every material has true blurry reflections and I don't even think about it.

[glorybound]

I load my scenes up, pretty much. I might be naive, however, I can't imagine them getting much bigger. Even with my large scenes, I don't even use half my 36 GB of RAM, so I am not sure what I'll need the 128 GB for.

[Morbid Angel]

If you have more ram, applications usually take advantage of that. For example I used to run with 24 gb of ram for years and made it work with that. But you are limited to running only few apps at once. Quite often I have multiple maya and max instances as well as mudbox, photoshop and a few comp programs running. Its useful when you don't have to close/open them all the time

[glorybound]

If you have more ram, applications usually take advantage of that. For example I used to run with 24 gb of ram for years and made it work with that. But you are limited to running only few apps at once. Quite often I have multiple maya and max instances as well as mudbox, photoshop and a few comp programs running. Its useful when you don't have to close/open them all the time

I really only run one MAX and nothing else. Actually, I typically kill all other tasks , that are running and I can kill, prior to running MAX. I'm looking forward to 36 cores running at 3.8 GHz.

[super gnu]

you wont have 36 cores running at 3.8.. that speed is for when you are using 1-2 cores per processor.. you will get lower speeds when all cores are loaded.

[Syclone1]

you will of course still wait for renders. its an unwritten rule that you can never have enough renderpower! youll just be more ambitious and your renders will take just as long as before. my animations have been hitting 1 hr a frame for the last 15 years.

LOL that is so very true

[JezUK]

I've been keeping an eye on 2696v3 processors, as I've considered them for my next build.

No way is that Dell machine a $15k beast - those procs are bubbling around the $1200-1500 mark, x 2, add a Supermicro mobo @ $350, budget around $600 for ram, (that gpu is no-use) and of course you could build such a machine (that'd be rock-solid) for less than that $5500......

I'm currently running a 5960x with 64gb and a 256Gb m.2 card for the os and software.

My plan this year is to upgrade both the processor (to a 6960x), the m.2 to 512Gb (I've currently got just circa 12gb left free on my current m.2......) and then take my machine to Windows 10 - all around the June/July period (which I'm hoping the 6960x will have been released and Win 10 is still a free upgrade).

I use one machine and each time I contemplate getting a 2nd machine, I keep referring back to Rebusfarm and how much less headache that all is for me to use.

[glorybound]

It has shipped and should be here soon. Hotdog!

[pixelplume]

yay! curious how glorious it will be

[glorybound]

I'll let ya'll know as soon as know. Pretty exciting!

[super gnu]

to avoid initial disappointment, it might be worth trawling the forums for posts relating to running vray on machines with tons of cores. i dont know if its still the case (ive never had to deal with so many cores so didnt pay a lot of attention) but in the past, there were some tweaks needed to get expected performance from vray on machines with 64 cores+

some environment variable that needed setting, or running 2 dr spawners, or something.. dont remember.

iirc it was related to how windows deals with more than 64 cores.

[glorybound]

I did ask that question prior to committing to this machine and I was told that, that has been addressed several patches ago.

[glorybound]

Off to a rough start

"During the final diagnosis, we identified that one of the memory slots on the motherboard was not working properly. Although the system works fine in the current configuration with 8 memory modules installed, it will have a problem to install additional 8 pcs. We've called Dell for warranty service. They'll send a on-site technician to replace the motherboard tomorrow. The earliest time we can ship your computer is tomorrow afternoon. I apologize the delay."

At least I'll know it is a new board and they are dealing with it and not me.

[Syclone1]

ACK that blows, hopefully they get it sorted for you.

[super gnu]

assuming its not a delaying tactic and they actually tested *that* thoroughly (testing with ram configurations other than the one they are supplying) that is actually quite impressive!

id have expected them to fire it up, run pcmark or something, tick the "working" box, and ship it out.

and as you say, means you are getting a brand new motherboard.. again, assuming its all on the level.