tchamberlain2 Posted November 20, 2009 Posted November 20, 2009 I haven't found this question so I thought I'd ask it. It may be silly. Can you have faster rendering time if you have a better graphics card or ram? Quote
HomeSlice Posted November 21, 2009 Posted November 21, 2009 A better graphics card won't speed up rendering at this time. Maybe one day we will be able to use the graphics card to help with some aspects of rendering, but that probably won't be for a few years. A better graphics card will help speed up your real-time views though. More RAM can help speed up rendering if you have many image textures and a lot of models and stuff in a scene. Anything that cannot be stored in memory gets written to (and read from) virtual memory which is the hard drive. This is much much slower than reading/writing to/from RAM. Quote
tchamberlain2 Posted November 21, 2009 Author Posted November 21, 2009 A better graphics card won't speed up rendering at this time. Maybe one day we will be able to use the graphics card to help with some aspects of rendering, but that probably won't be for a few years. A better graphics card will help speed up your real-time views though. More RAM can help speed up rendering if you have many image textures and a lot of models and stuff in a scene. Anything that cannot be stored in memory gets written to (and read from) virtual memory which is the hard drive. This is much much slower than reading/writing to/from RAM. Thanks! Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted November 21, 2009 Hash Fellow Posted November 21, 2009 How much ram do you have now? What's the most your mother board will take? Quote
tchamberlain2 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Posted November 23, 2009 How much ram do you have now? What's the most your mother board will take? I Believe it is 615mb or 600 and something mb. I believe the limit line to what I can add is 2 gigs. I also wonderd if I just bought a new pc with 3 gigs for christmas would there be a major change in the render speed or would I just be wasting money? Quote
HomeSlice Posted November 24, 2009 Posted November 24, 2009 If you only have ~600MB of RAM now, then I'm pretty sure you will notice faster renders in complex models as well as a snappier Operating System in general. Quote
tchamberlain2 Posted November 24, 2009 Author Posted November 24, 2009 If you only have ~600MB of RAM now, then I'm pretty sure you will notice faster renders in complex models as well as a snappier Operating System in general. Thank you so much! Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted November 24, 2009 Hash Fellow Posted November 24, 2009 I Believe it is 615mb or 600 and something mb. That's a weird amount of RAM to have. It tends to come in in .5, 1, 2, 4... gigabyte increments On the PC Start>Programs>accessories>system tools>system information will tell you "Total Physical Memory" and lots of other stuff. Quote
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