UPDATED BENCHMARK (ITS FASTER I PROMISE)

[GregM]

BTW, I think we need a completely new max scene. When I created this one, I never intended it to be rendered this fast! hehe

Percy, I wouldn't do a new scene yet since the scene takes over 6 minutes on my system (dual 3.0 Xeon) and I haven't seen anyone render it under a minute... yet. Besides the scene is great - and it's envied on some other render forums.

-Greg

[crossbow]

Should start another thread for ideas for the next benchmark scene. Something like a crystal penguin fighting its way out of a belly of a shark, which mysteriously just ate a whole lot of jello, glasses, wax figurines (ironically of a shark), and chrome teapots.

[CCS]

You forgot the dislpaced greebled hippo feeding on vrayfur grass on the shore barely visible thru the water.

[crossbow]

To quickly counter the....

"It would be a black screen, there is no light in the belly"...

Well pfft. In his right hand, the crystal penguin holds a disco ball of light! In his left hand, a light saber. THERE! HAPPY? And the shark is made of jello.
Ok maybe not a light saber, but "a magical ball of fire inside of a crystal ball"...and the entire scene is inside of the original vray benchmark scene.

Take that dual 285 opteron owners!!!!

[leotchest]

I have an E6400 on an Asus P5LD2-VM Rev2 board (withlatest BIOS), 2Gb PC4300, Win XP Pro. Its giving me a time of 9min50sec on the original scene (1.5 RC2). My old PIV 3.4 Ghz beat that score in the same motherboard ! Really confused as to why the E6400 is underperforming so badly
OK - so I just switched off the "Low Priority" toggle and it rendered in 6min50sec. Still not very impressive

[crossbow]

leo,

Get CPU-Z and make sure your cpu is running at the proper megahertz/gigahertz.

Here's one I like to use.
http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-136.zip
.

[leotchest]

yeah - i tried that. For a while I was using cpu-z 1.35 and it was registering a low clock speed. Changing up to Version 1.36 fixed that and all numbers look correct in cpu-z. Asus just told me to update the BIOS but it hasnt helped. I am wondering if there is some limiting factor on the motherboard. O well. I'll see what else Asus have got to say.

[crossbow]

Your motherboard chipset isn't the optimal configuration for use with the core2duo, but that shouldn't really effect your performance that much at stock speeds, just if you wanted to "push" it.

There is however a performance difference between the 945, 965, and 975 chipsets, with the 975 being the top performer.

How's the rest of the system configuration looking? Are you showing two processors in task manager? Are both being utilized during the render?

[leotchest]

yup - its a tight balance between performance & cost, hence the 945. I was hoping that the E6400 would at least match my AMD 4200+ or my 4400+
Both cpu's are being fully utilised - everything apart from the result seems "normal". The mobo allows me to push the clock up to about 3.3Ghz - but I still get the poor times. My local vendor told me this was not a recommended board, but I had no other choice (I have a mATX intel board on back order - probably another month)

[Dman3d]

anyone have th 1.47.03 version of this the links I found are dead

[powerandrubber]

I think this one works
http://rapidshare.de/files/29166811/...w_1.5.rar.html

[DaForce]

Well thats the 1.5 version, he is after the 1.47.03 version. Which is this one....
DOWNLOAD HERE

Enjoy

[jacksc02]

good lad!

[geoffc]

original test, with sub-pixel mapping checked.

Boxx dual dual Xeon 5160 (woodcrest)
4gb ram
win64

[jacksc02]

dam, thats a nice time!
What did the boxx cost you?