Re: well, new system advice

> In sostitution of the videocard mentioned above, they
> offer me a Nvidia GeForce 7800GT PCI-Express 256MB (or even GTX) but they
> cost more than 250/300 ? more

If your PCs will only be rendering, then the graphics cards are pretty much
useless. Rendering will only use RAM and CPU - ask if they can give you
cheaper cards, or else when they arrive sell them on EBayto get some cash
back.

Remember that LWSN is single-threaded, so you'll have to run two instances
on each PC to make use of the dual-core processor, and this means that each
will only have 1GB RAM available to each - personally, I'd save money on
graphics cards and increase the RAM in your system.

On the other hand, if you're using the PCs as workstations as well as for a
renderfarm, then it's worth going for decent video cards. I'm a bit out of
touch with the new graphics cards, so can't really comment on what's best at
the moment.


> Last, i'd like to be *sure* that i can install WIN XP HOME 32bit (no need
> for advanced lan sapabilities) and run my 32 bit Lw with all its plugs; so
> any issue about compatibility is mostly important.

The 64-bit Athlons will run 32-bit code just fine. I haven't personally
used lightwave on a 64-bit machine, but I can't see any reason for it not to
work.

The big advantage of 64-bit is that it allows you to access more than 4GB
RAM (32-bit machines are limited to around 3.5GB in practice).

Hope that helps,

Equinox

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