I can't hardly wait. It's on it's way and should be here tomorrow.
My new system comprises (2) 2ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5405 Processors with each processor's L2 Cache at 2x6MB.
Even though Terr is not yet designed for Multi-Core processors, it should run smotther and faster than my other systems
a 3.06 Ghz P4HT and a 2.8Ghz 64bit system.
With the amount of memory that I have comming with it, I should have no trouble running at least (2) halves of an image on each processor.
We'll see.... ;D
Wow, that sounds like quite a system! When the multithreaded version is ready for release, you're going to get some insane render speeds :).
And as always, I have processor envy.
:)
Congratulations.
>:(
ARrrrrrgh !! FedEx has it marked for Delivery Next Business Day !!!! Arrrrgh....!
So, now it won't arrive until Monday.
This ALWAYS HAPPENS!!
Anyway, it will be a sweet system. Dell Precision T7400 Workstation. Set me back $2,600 U.S with extra processor and memory.
Sounds Great! Just hope your new system doesn't go obsolete before tg2 Comes out. ;) ;) ;) ;D
;D Are you Kidding? I'm sure that it's already Obsolete!! hehehe, It was probably obsolete when the advertised it as "New" on the Dell site.
;D
It's here and it is sweet! Ran the Benchmark test at 0:03:42. My 1st system took 0:09:55. The other unit was working on a another project.
http://tg2bench.kk3d.de/index.htm
regards,
-Robert
Expect that to be well under a minute with multi-threaded TG :)
Matt
Ah ha !! ;)
If we knew the spec of the first machine (hint ) then we could, albeit very roughly, reccon the speed increase multi threading will potentially give us. Yes I know theres plenty of variables and I'm clutching at straws.
So what was your first machines spec please?
Thanks
Richard
Robert said he had two other systems: a 3.06 Ghz P4HT and a 2.8Ghz 64bit system.
Actually I'm surprised that these take nearly 10 minutes to render the benchmark. I would expect it to be closer to 6 minutes (7 at the most) if the system is running well.
Matt
Quote from: Matt on April 01, 2008, 01:41:44 PM
Robert said he had two other systems: a 3.06 Ghz P4HT and a 2.8Ghz 64bit system.
Actually I'm surprised that these take nearly 10 minutes to render the benchmark. I would expect it to be closer to 6 minutes (7 at the most) if the system is running well.
Matt
Yeah I can verify that. I'm running a home built P4 3.2 Gig with Hyper Threading (Enabled) 4 Gig of Ram and the Benchmark tgd rendered in 6 min. 24 sec.
I re-ran the Benchmark on the 3.06Ghz P4HT and "turned off" quite a few programs that had been running in the back ground. The Benchmark time improved to 0.08.12
A little better.
Aslo, on the new T7400, of the 8 Xeon cores available, the One core running the test showed only a 12% CPU load. ;D
All I've got to do now is add more memory. From what I remember, this system can hold up to 32Gb Memory, but I haven't yet opened the case to see how many memory slots are available. Currently I have just 2Gb.
Until the Multi-Thred is available, and with additional memory I should be able to run multiple TG's each once... ?
Quote from: rmfrase on April 02, 2008, 08:52:18 AM
Until the Multi-Thred is available, and with additional memory I should be able to run multiple TG's each once... ?
Yes.
Sounds like a great rendering platform. I am also looking for a similar (or same) system.
What OS are you using? I think XP may have some constraints, especially when it comes to the memory.
I'm using XP Pro (Service Pack 2) on all of my systems.