ihabkal

Hi Guys,
Is anyone using 8GB Ram and actually seeing a benefit in max x64?
Thanks

Dibbers

Hi Ihab

I've just got a new system with 8gb ram and Max 64, but haven't worked on a proper job with it yet. We'll see.

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freaker_ca

ya i did a scene with 41 million polys. no joke. 2,684 cars in the parking lot, 14 buildings, a power station, 3 sets of power lines and 580 3d trees.

on a more reasonable level, with the more memory you can get faster renders because max wont have to cache out to the hardrives which really slows things down. a pair of 10,000 rpm drives raid 0 and things will go even faster.

Billabong

I'm running 8 gigs and I can really see a difference, I have a scene with 6 million polys(no where near freaker's) but still ran it pretty well, I still get lagging when trying to navigate,and thats running Nvida 88000gtx, but it renders out this animation without any hitches

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aflack

Yep its great, you can pretty much render anything.

ihabkal

Thanks guys, that's really great.

Tommy L

Im assuming you guys are all running on win xp 64? any vista users yet?

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WAcky

I too thought 8gb would be a good idea. Alas!

Vista has a problem with 8gb of ram. I installed 8 gb of ram without too much of a problem, or at least i didnt realise it was going bad. Startup times went from 15 seconds to 10 minutes and after I installed SP1 the computer became unuseable. The processor was runnin 100% full time. I couldnt even open up internet explorer with two or more tabs open.

A mate of mine did some reading and let me know that vista has a big problem with 8gb of ram. I took out 4gb and now its running like lightning. Over clocked my 6600 to 3ghz and im loving it all over again. With this overclocking im gaining about 10 minutes per hour. When i buy a nice big heatsink and fan and we hit winter here down under im going to try for 3.5ghz +

Im yet to try a 6gb config but i have a feeling the performance will decrease again.

If you're using Vista (im using ultimate 64) then wait for a patch to fix this problem before thinking about 8gb of ram.

When i say it was unuseable, i mean slower than the computer you had 5 years ago when it was full of junk and took ages to open anything...

WAcky

Yeah i know. I was replying to Tommy's post. Should have quoted.

Exellite

Hey WAcky, Do you happen to have a link to the article your mate was reading regarding this issue vista 64 has with 8 gigs or RAM?

I would be intrested in having a read of that myself because this is the first I've heard of it and it's the setup I was aiming for when I buy my new PC.

There's no way your problems are down to you specifically? like maybe faulty RAM slots on your mobo or something? I've been there myself..

cheers
Mark