We are an architectural firm who is in the process of boosting up our 3D visualization capabilities... We started doing 3D renderings about 2 years ago, and as our skills increase, so have our hardware needs.
We are exploring the idea of buying a machine with:
2 Quad Core Intel Xeon Processors (3.00Ghz,2x6M L2, 1333)
8 GB DDR2 SDRAM
512MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 1700
80GB SATA, 7200 RPM Drive
The software we are/will be using is as follows:
Sketch-Up (& Vray for Sketchup)
Rhinoceros 4.0 (& Vray for Rhino)
Vue 6
3DS Max (Possibly)
Photoshop
The questions are:
1. Will this software utilize all 8 cores of this machine? (I've been told by asgvis that V-ray will use whatever is available)
2. Will the 7200 80gb drive bottleneck any of the other monstrous components? (We save everything on our server & our drives are not used all that much)
It might be worth noting that some of our models do get pretty demanding, especially when we do heavily detail landscapes... Rhino has been giving error messages saying that Windows is out of memory (we have one file that is 100mb worth of terrain geometry)
Any advice would be helpful. Thanks.
We are exploring the idea of buying a machine with:
2 Quad Core Intel Xeon Processors (3.00Ghz,2x6M L2, 1333)
8 GB DDR2 SDRAM
512MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 1700
80GB SATA, 7200 RPM Drive
The software we are/will be using is as follows:
Sketch-Up (& Vray for Sketchup)
Rhinoceros 4.0 (& Vray for Rhino)
Vue 6
3DS Max (Possibly)
Photoshop
The questions are:
1. Will this software utilize all 8 cores of this machine? (I've been told by asgvis that V-ray will use whatever is available)
2. Will the 7200 80gb drive bottleneck any of the other monstrous components? (We save everything on our server & our drives are not used all that much)
It might be worth noting that some of our models do get pretty demanding, especially when we do heavily detail landscapes... Rhino has been giving error messages saying that Windows is out of memory (we have one file that is 100mb worth of terrain geometry)
Any advice would be helpful. Thanks.