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I'm afraid I have bad news (for me, anyway ^_^):
I visited a friend I call my "I.T. Guy" today, and told him of my 'hand me down' system.
He told me that, in effect, the system I currently have is better than this new one, thanks to the upgrade in RAM (1 Gig) and the video card he picked out for me when I first got it.
Even though the new system has a faster processor, my current system is more efficient, even with a slower one, according to him (and he lives and breathes computers so I trust his knowledge)
Oh, well :-( ;, I'm still thinking about wiping my hard drive and starting over from square one (with a fresh, empty drive I may be able to render better).
Or maybe I'll just make my old system my 'render computer', and my 'new' system my net surfing/gaming computer (if it has the minimum graphics requirements to run some of the games I have, that is)
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Well, actually, its not new.
Its a hand me down from another family member who got a better one for Christmas.
Still, its processor is better than the one I currently have, so it should allow me to (finally) do renders with complex shadows, as well as mirrors (and more than two characters in a scene, my recent bane).
Its going to take awhile to set up, though; I have to transfer stuff from my old drive to the new one, plus other stuff.
So look for much better rendered stuff from me sometime in the next month or so.
Edit: I'll be taking a small break from rendering new images until I get my new system set up, but it should be worth it ^_^
I'm afraid I have bad news (for me, anyway ^_^):
I visited a friend I call my "I.T. Guy" today, and told him of my 'hand me down' system.
He told me that, in effect, the system I currently have is better than this new one, thanks to the upgrade in RAM (1 Gig) and the video card he picked out for me when I first got it.
Even though the new system has a faster processor, my current system is more efficient, even with a slower one, according to him (and he lives and breathes computers so I trust his knowledge)
Oh, well :-( ;, I'm still thinking about wiping my hard drive and starting over from square one (with a fresh, empty drive I may be able to render better).
Or maybe I'll just make my old system my 'render computer', and my 'new' system my net surfing/gaming computer (if it has the minimum graphics requirements to run some of the games I have, that is)
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Well, actually, its not new.
Its a hand me down from another family member who got a better one for Christmas.
Still, its processor is better than the one I currently have, so it should allow me to (finally) do renders with complex shadows, as well as mirrors (and more than two characters in a scene, my recent bane).
Its going to take awhile to set up, though; I have to transfer stuff from my old drive to the new one, plus other stuff.
So look for much better rendered stuff from me sometime in the next month or so.
Edit: I'll be taking a small break from rendering new images until I get my new system set up, but it should be worth it ^_^
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I visited a friend I call my "I.T. Guy" today, and told him of my 'hand me down' system.
He told me that, in effect, the system I currently have is better than this new one, thanks to the upgrade in RAM (1 Gig) and the video card he picked out for me when I first got it.
Even though the new system has a faster processor, my current system is more efficient, even with a slower one.
Oh, well :-( ;, I'm still thinking about wiping my hard drive and starting over from square one (with a fresh, empty drive I may be able to render better).
Or maybe I'll just make my old system my 'render computer', and my 'new' system my net surfing/gaming computer (if it has the minimum graphics requirements to run some of the games I have, that is)
Think I'll update the post with this info.