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No, this is what I am putting together as my next rig. I hope to order today.

frodi - 02 December 2012 07:27 PM

No, this is what I am putting together as my next rig. I hope to order today.

Oh snap!  Well, when you have D|S installed, if you could run the test I suggested it would give me an idea of what performance boost I can expect compared to my current i7 875K.

The test render took my system 7 minutes and 35 seconds to do the complete render at the settings I specified.

I had to reduce the file size for the post, so here it is at 90% of original.  Not the best quality render, but it gives a baseline for performance comparisons.

I have to wait 5 - 6 months before I can get my new system.  DRAT!

Nice render, 7min 35sec is pretty good. My present setup renders really slow. So hope to see a big improvement with the new outfit.

I have just ordered the Wacom Intuos5. I did buy one last month but had to send it back as it crashed my pc multiple times. I hope the new setup will support it, I am lost without my wacom tablet. I had a wacom graphire for 14 yrs and it never even hiccupped. But now I cannot get another working driver for it. No longer supported as it is so old.

I just bought the bamboo

Hi Frank, is it good?

frodi - 02 December 2012 07:27 PM

No, this is what I am putting together as my next rig. I hope to order today.

I just checked a CPU reference chart and adjusted the results for overclocking on the i7 875K and the i7 3930K.  I think I will save myself a bundle and do what you have done.

CPU                                           Rating         Price
Intel Core i7 K 875 @ 3.475 GHz 6616 429.99
Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.52 GHz 13285 559.99

My current i7 is overclocked by 18.6%.  Overclocking the 3930K by only 10% results in precisely double the CPU performance.  Since the renders are CPU dependent, this should translate into a 50% time savings when doing the same render.  That is to say, a 8 minute render with my current system should take 4 minutes with the 3930K - all other attributes being equal.

As I have some renders that take 4, 6 or even 8 hours to process, the “half the time” would be a huge performance boost.

Looks like you picked a winner!  Let me know if my theoretical performance matches real world performance by doing my test render.

Just ordered the new rig. Now I’ll have to wait….......

frodi - 02 December 2012 10:28 PM

Just ordered the new rig. Now I’ll have to wait….......

Frodi, did you get it yet?

If so, do you need a new neighbor? 

Please let me know when you get it setup and can do the sample render I had done previously.

Thanks!

Yes I have it. Am presently setting it up. All a bit complicated, but am getting there.

I did a very quick render, it took 1min 22sec.

Frodi i think he meant render at the same resolution as his picture the reason why you rendered so fast because the resolution was a lot smaller.

Also I’m making a computer aswell i just need a few more parts and then it can be built would this parts be good for Daz studio or will it take a long time to render?

Processor: Intel Core i5 3570K 3.4GHz
Chipset: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H Socket 1155
Memory: 16GB DDR3 1600Mhz Ram
SSD; 120GB
HDD: 1TB
Graphics: EVGA GTX 670 FTW 2048MB GDDR5
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 64Bit

KorvisBlack - 02 December 2012 07:03 PM

Best Quality (ie, 4)
Default Shader
Pixels = 1680 x 1050
Bucket size = 64
Max Ray Trace Depth = 12
Pixel Samples (x) = 12
Pixel Samples (y) = 12
Shadow Samples = 10

 

Use the program for any length of time and the ‘default’ settings are long forgotten!

If you allow it, I suggest we modify these slightly:

ray depth = 3
pixel samples = 4x4
shadow samples = 8

bucket size is tailored to your hardware, so set that as needed.

Crucially the shading rate has not been specified, lets keep that at 1.

So in order to do reallyuse DAz to its full possibility I need to seriously upgrade to a better computer. Honestly, I’ve had this one for 2 years now and I never did really like it. It’s pretty weak compared to my old XP. Which is really surprising since this is an HP as well the XP. This one has a hard time with just my Illustrator program. Thankfully, Windows finally did the Service Pack 1 which helped Illustrator but I still can’t move too fast for the computer to keep or else it will crash, my XP never did crash as much I did with it. If got my XP seriously upgraded with more memory and a better graphics card I woder if that would make a differnece. Or else it’s just that Daz can not handle too many items in a scene. As I have said once before. FOr over a month I’ve been TRYING to build a simple layout scene and it gets ‘heavy’ fast. Maybe I’m just pushing Daz and my computer too much. Neither can do what I have in mind for animation without a fight. So i have to break the scene up into pieces, I guess and do a little at a time. Then put it all together. I want to show a truck rolling down the highway coming into town. So I guess I have to give up and do a part at a time then put edit it in Movie Maker.

aaron1716, sounds good to me.