To All AMD/Intel users....Conclusion...opti wins for now

[Viscacha]

We ordered the Beta disk for window xp64 but have not yet installed it on our machine... dual AMD opterons 2G mem. Do you think we will get improved rendering times installing that version of Xp without a 64b build of Max. I am just curious if it is worth wasting time testing now or not? any thoughts are welcome.
Thanks

[Da_elf]

what sort of test scene is that. sheesh. there isnt even one single teapot in the entire thing. morons. where did you learn to create bench mark scenes hehehe im looking forward to getting a dual amd64 from boxx

[timmatron]

Tested on the old system..

Time = 21:39 using version 1.45.70
Dual AMD Athlon MP 2100+
2 Gig ram

[RErender]

We ordered the Beta disk for window xp64 but have not yet installed it on our machine... dual AMD opterons 2G mem. Do you think we will get improved rendering times installing that version of Xp without a 64b build of Max. I am just curious if it is worth wasting time testing now or not? any thoughts are welcome.
Thanks

No, there is not a speed increase in running 32 bit apps, the only benefeit for now is being able to address more memory, I was testing a scene that was using 4GB of memory

[vergefio]

Tested on my system:

Dual xeon 3,06/533 @ 3600/800
Now i'm going away, asap i'll try @ 3800/1000



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[timmatron]

Tested on my system:

Dual xeon 3,06/533 @ 3600/800
Now i'm going away, asap i'll try @ 3800/1000

what does the 3600/800 mean? is that overclocking? Yes, 8 minutes for me please!

[Dynedain]

My result on a Dual Opteron 246 / 2Gb running WinXP-64 and Max7 with Vray 1.45.7:

16m, 7.7s

Now, keep in mind that the 245 runs slower than the 248, and that this scene is a Vray 1.09 scene, which means that it probably runs slower than one created to begin with in 1.45

[reza]

Beat this....Pc-dl deluxe from asus overclocked from 3.2 1mb cache to 3.95 with all the fast ram available....using 4sata wd raptor raid 0 for c drive.
Thanks to vergefio for the overclock settings.

[Boa]

Wow Reza, that's unbeatable.

My test took 14m 46,7s with a Dual Opteron 248 using the /3GB switch in Max7 with Vray 1.45.7 and normal XP.

[vergefio]

New test even on my system but clocked at 3,975Ghz (265*15 in 1:1), 2 gb of mushkin pc3200 Black level 2 at 3,35v

And now reza... beat this

[vergefio]

="timmatron"]

Tested on my system:

Dual xeon 3,06/533 @ 3600/800
Now i'm going away, asap i'll try @ 3800/1000

what does the 3600/800 mean? is that overclocking? Yes, 8 minutes for me please!

Of course timmatron

Asus pc-dl rev 1.05 with ddram voltmod, viomod and socketmod

[reza]

looks like i need to drop by the shop again...hehehehe...see you tomorrow....hehehehe...

[dbuchhofer]

Tested on the old system..

Time = 21:39 using version 1.45.70
Dual AMD Athlon MP 2100+
2 Gig ram

Hah, basically the same system here only 3gigs of ram.. took 1h 7m 2s.. when I opened/sent it as I walked out last night.. I have a feeling something is screwed up here

heh, either that or my virus scan ran through it that i didn't notice!

[marc]

Wow!! f***ing fast...

As it seems all the AMD systems take the same amount of time (about 14min), regardless how many ram or what system (64bit or not) is installed.

But those xeon workstations with overclocked cpu's beat everything.
14min to 5min is quite a difference! Great job reza and vergefio!

My questions are:

-Can one overclock the amd systems as well?
-I don't know much about overclocking: are there some usefull links?
- What are the risks?


thanks in advance

marc

[percydaman]

what are the risks? haha you could lose nothing or everything. do a search on google, there are sooo many sites for overclocking.