ouch…under 2 mins!..that hurts… :lol:
Come to think about it, but the move from the manufacturers to dual and quad cores have accelerated the famous “Moore’s law”: with multi cores it sure takes less then 18 months to double performance !!!
Well, just ran it on my new personal machine (Macbook Pro C2D 2.33 ghz / 2 gig RAM / Max 9 32 bit / Bootcamp) - pretty respectable for a laptop - 6m 33s.
I’ll post the new quad-core I got at the office tomorrow sometime. One thing I noticed with these quads is you really have to run 64 bit… the Modo benchmarks I ran were slower than computers with the 1.86’s running 64 bit, since I can’t address all 4 gigs of ram, and 8 cores sharing 3 gigs must be arguing about who gets what memory.
Okay, got around to testing the new work computer - Dell Precision 490 - dual 2.33 ghz Quad’s, 4 gig’s RAM, Viz 2007, Win 32 - 1m 58.8s.
after seing the results in here i was expecting to be a bit faster on a core duo 6600 but then i realised some of the results are overclocked. This is my time for basically a clean install on my dell dimension core duo 6600 with 2Gb ram:
Mine is is 40 seconds slower than the equivalent time given by another user with similar machine but who used RC4.
really hard to compare when people are using other versions or overclocking!. Anyway hope my benchmark gives people thinking of buying a 6600 machine a realistic idea about how fast/slow they are.
new machine 7 times faster than your old machine dapeter!?
gotta be happy with that 
test - Xeon 3210
Xeon 3210 - 1Ea
OS - WIN XP 64 BIT
RAM - 4 Gb
Vray - 1.5 rc3
MAX 9 - 64 Bit
dapeter - your work Dual 2.33 rendered in 1m 58.8s and lightpixel’s Dual 1.86 rendered the benchmark in 1m 58s? Doesn’t seem quite right…
Some results
Heres a mixed bag…
2x AMD Opteron 265 - Win32 1.8Ghz - 5min8sec
Intel E6400 - Win32 2.3Ghz - 6min25sec
Intel E6400 - Win32 2.1Ghz - 7min9sec
Intel Extreme 840 - Win32 3.2Ghz - 7min31sec
AMD Athlon x2 4400 - Win32 2.4Ghz - 7min56sec
The opterons are great value at $250 usd each.
Dual Xeon E5310 Quadcore @ 1,60 Ghz, 2 gb RAM
XP64 bit, max 9 64, vray x64,
2:22
No it doesn’t… I think it may have to do with the 64-bit issue, since XP can’t allocate all the system memory available. So I think it may have something to do with the way the multicore’s handle RAM in XP32.
Paulison - I think theres something wrong with that time as I have an E6400 Win32 2GB Ram RC3 and with no overclocking I get 7min9sec. All the components (apart from my cpu) are about as ‘low end’ as you can get. I would complain to Dell !
nice time there, what did they set you back?
$4732. A bit high but these guys build top quality machines and offer great support with a 3 year warranty. When I priced them they came out about $500 less than a similar spec Dell.
QX6700 takes 2m 40.4s. I’m happy with the results, however it’s tempting to do a small overclock…
CPU: Intel QX6700
RAM: 4GB
-- DJ
go on, do a big overclock and let me know the result!
I’ve got to get to sleep now as the car is due for a service tomorrow morning, but I’ll certainly spend the arvo squeezing as much juice out of this box as possible!
-- DJ
cool, keep me posted, im interested to see how much you can get
Max9 x64 Dual Quad Core 
what model of quad core processor?
Can you give us a bit more detail on that machine…
… and where it is physically located.
… and when the facility doors might be unlocked and the guard asleep.