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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: vyper on November 22, 2002, 06:28:05 am

Title: Quick survey
Post by: vyper on November 22, 2002, 06:28:05 am

I was just wondering what kind of rigs all the other rendering folk have, i.e. processor speed, graphics card, and type of drives (SCSI or standard ATAPI).

How long does it take to render... say 100frame animation?

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Warlock on November 22, 2002, 06:36:02 am

P III 800 Mkz CPU Running on an older than god AOpen motherboard that can't report the correct speed to save its live (prolly running at about 600)

Herc 2 64 Meg Vid Card

Maxtor 80 Gig 7200rps HD

Never even tried to do an animation :P

*EDIT* Duh I might wanna include ram eh ? 368 SDram

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Ashrak on November 22, 2002, 07:07:58 am

AMD 1600+
GF2 Mx400
standard drive 7200 40 GB

and it depends on how much stuff in scene and how high poly.

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Ryx on November 22, 2002, 07:28:15 am

AMD 1900+
1 GB DDR
Abit AT7
3x WD Drives 7200 RPM
1x IBM drive 7200 RPM
GF3 Ti 200

Animation depends on how complex the scene is. I recently figured out how to do network rendering with my old AMD 800, 512 SDRAM :)

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Pera on November 22, 2002, 07:51:53 am

AMD XP2100
512 DDR
80 GB Maxtor HD
GF4 Ti4400

Animation speed depends on the scene. A 100-frame animation can be anything between one minute and until-the-end-of-the-world.

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Ashrak on November 22, 2002, 08:28:33 am

actually pera i will argue with that :)


the point is the computer will crash before the end of days :D

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Pera on November 22, 2002, 02:45:20 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Ashrak
actually pera i will argue with that :)


the point is the computer will crash before the end of days :D

Sorry Ashrak, WinXP doesn't crash :p

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Stunaep on November 22, 2002, 03:19:53 pm

Old: Celeron 300 Mhz
96 MB of Ram
25 GB of Hard Drive
Ati All-in-wonder 8 mb
100 frame animation with approx 30 000 polys plus lightning, glows and particles approx. 6 hours

New: Pentium 4, 2 gHz
512 megs of Ram
60 GB of Hard Drive
Geforce 4 Ti (128 megs)

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Stealth on November 22, 2002, 03:26:28 pm

Old:
- - AMD Athlon 600 mHz
- - 64 MB Ram
- - Video 107PCI 8MB
- - Sound Blaster (old... very old)
- - 18.9 GB Hard Drive
- - Forgot what motherboard
- - can't render with it... it sucks...

New (and always being upgraded):
- - AMD 1.4 GHZ
- - Asus A7M266
- - Radeon 64 MB DDR
- - 512 MB DDR
- - 80 GB Hard Drive

Title: Quick survey
Post by: aldo_14 on November 22, 2002, 03:46:20 pm

Athlon 1500 XP
256MB RAM (DDR I think, son to be upgraded to 512)
Geforce MX 100/200 32MB (soon to be upgrade to GF4 Ti4200)
IDE DISK (can't remeber exact type) 28GB

Rendering a 1 frame image (1024*800) with 1 ship (~1000 polys) and 3 volumetric lights takes about 10mins.  Rendering a (hi-res...500*360 ish) 90 frame ship ani takes around 20 mins - half an hour.

Title: Quick survey
Post by: DragonClaw on November 22, 2002, 04:16:12 pm

Athlon XP 1600+ (overclocked)
512mb DDR Ram
7200 RPM 30gb Hard Drive
GeForce3 Ti200 (overclocked)


And as said before, the time a scene takes to be rendered depends solely on the scene. For example, I can render a very simple 1 minute scene in... 50 seconds. Though if its far more complex with ray traced shadows and around 5 lights and all, it would probably take me a full day to render.

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Carl on November 22, 2002, 05:58:46 pm

pentium III 450 MHz
voodoo3 2000
320MB RAM
7200 RPM 60GB hard drive

it's amazing i can do anything.

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Gortef on November 23, 2002, 05:18:47 am

Athlon1200
768 SDRam
8500DV AiW
15G HD
60G HD

( can't remember the render time... haven't done anything in ages)

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Ashrak on November 23, 2002, 05:34:39 am

Quote

Originally posted by Pera


Sorry Ashrak, WinXP doesn't crash :p

rofl iv had to press the RESET button more than 1 time and i have XP so forget it

Title: Quick survey
Post by: Darkage on November 23, 2002, 05:47:33 am

AMD Athlon 1.2ghz
512MB PC-133 SDRAM
Geforce2 MX100/200 32MB
40GB Maxtor
and a old 2.1GB quantum fireball.
I use it to store my meshes on.
i got 95MB left:D


And rendering depends on how complex a scene is a low poly scene with 4 lights and 4/5 FS2 ships in like 2 seconds.
A 250 framed scene with 4 Omega class destroyers and 10 lights and 4 jump points can be renderd in around 5 to 7 hours.