Re: well, new system advice

Hi,

> 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.

BTW.
but since it will be the newer PC in my farm i think i'll use it as main
workstation.

> 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.

in fact i'm buying it with 2GB; all my PC have 2 GB. This will be upgraded
to 4G in near future.

> 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).

good to know, thanks ;)
Paolo


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