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2013-01-11, 12:29:58

lacilaci

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Hi I'm considering an upgrade "hopefully sometimes soon"

I'm currently considering a i7 3930K sandy bridge - E, 64GB (8x8) RAM 1600MHZ  non ecc (Not sure which brand now) and asus  P9x79 or sabertooth x79

I would like to build a solid rig that I would fully use the potential of corona and vice versa.

Any recommendations or experiences with this or similar config? Any stuff to be aware about corona and HW?

Thanks :)

2013-01-11, 14:28:46
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Ondra

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Go for the newest/best Intel CPU you can afford. The difference in rendertimes between old-gen i7 and sandybridge i7 is 2×, between old-gen i3 and sandybridge i7 is 4×. I'll hopefully release a standalone benchmark scene with the next Alpha, so we can make a chart of different CPU performances.

(I also hope somebody from Intel is reading this and sends me a free Xeon Phi for development for promoting the company :D)
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2013-01-11, 15:00:05
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Go for the newest/best Intel CPU you can afford. The difference in rendertimes between old-gen i7 and sandybridge i7 is 2×, between old-gen i3 and sandybridge i7 is 4×. I'll hopefully release a standalone benchmark scene with the next Alpha, so we can make a chart of different CPU performances.

(I also hope somebody from Intel is reading this and sends me a free Xeon Phi for development for promoting the company :D)

I hope too ;-)

2013-01-11, 15:22:46
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lacilaci

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thanks for advice

how about sending them an e-mail :D (acually, you might consider joining their developer zone to get support https://secure-software.intel.com/partner/app/registration/developer?locale=en-US&scenario=partner) some info here maybe http://software.intel.com/en-us/membershiplevels
« Last Edit: 2013-01-11, 15:44:21 by lacilaci »

2013-01-11, 18:35:48
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it would be great if corona supported xeon phi ..

2013-01-13, 18:09:38
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Go for the newest/best Intel CPU you can afford. The difference in rendertimes between old-gen i7 and sandybridge i7 is 2×, between old-gen i3 and sandybridge i7 is 4×. I'll hopefully release a standalone benchmark scene with the next Alpha, so we can make a chart of different CPU performances.

(I also hope somebody from Intel is reading this and sends me a free Xeon Phi for development for promoting the company :D)

what about ivy bridge ? something interesting to expect from 2600K sandy bridge to ivy bridge ?

2013-01-31, 17:39:29
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kahein

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and with an Intel Xeon Phi Card with 60 cores ?
Asus Z10PE-D16 WS / Dual Xeon E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz / RAM 64 Go - GTX 970
Win 10 / Max 2017 / Corona 1.4

2013-02-04, 13:09:02
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Hi,

which of theese would you recomend?



http://ark.intel.com/compare/65719,65523,65524
Corona is like some king of addictive game... "Just one... More... Render... Before... Then i will do something... Useful"

HALT!Ausnahmezeit

2013-02-04, 13:15:46
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-K if you want to overclock, vanilla otherwise
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2013-02-04, 13:18:26
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-K if you want to overclock, vanilla otherwise

And do I want to overclock?

- this is "I-want-to-know-public-opinion" question :)
Corona is like some king of addictive game... "Just one... More... Render... Before... Then i will do something... Useful"

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2013-02-04, 13:37:52
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I wanted that one too... But I'm kinda worried about - max memory size 32GB

2013-02-04, 15:12:21
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I wanted that one too... But I'm kinda worried about - max memory size 32GB

but which chwuic wuich witch one? :)
Corona is like some king of addictive game... "Just one... More... Render... Before... Then i will do something... Useful"

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2013-02-04, 16:45:21
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3770K but It supports only max 32GB ram so I'm currently thinking about 3930K but I don't know, still have some little time to decide. Kinda expensive compared to 3770 but I'm not buying this every year so it might pay off..

2013-02-04, 20:49:27
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Maybe this could help?
http://www.notebookcheck.pl/Mobilne-procesory-rozpiska-osiagow.4344.0.html

Sorry it's in Polish but I think you get it. Higher = more powerful in tests listed at the top of table.
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2013-02-04, 21:57:12
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you're worried about 32gb memory limit? Jeez - what sort of scenes do you work on?

2013-02-04, 22:08:39
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I should probably start to worry about 32bit integers in some parts of Corona...
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2013-02-04, 23:23:55
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...couple of heavily displaced geo with high res 32bit exr for displacement and other high res textures all surrounded by lots of other scattered geometry and rendering it all at some huge resolution, and I believe even with 64Gigs of ram I'd be instantly on the edge of possibilities :D... Having the cash, I get a 3dboxx with 512GB ram :D lol... But yeah, for now I guess getting a 3770 with 32GB for half the price of 3930 and 64GB sounds pretty good...

2013-02-04, 23:30:33
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ok, first person to get the overflow when trying to use 4G polygons gets free beer ;)
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2013-02-06, 11:23:09
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kahein

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hi everyone

this week, my ressellers will loan me three xeon phi 5110p.
I could test corona on them if you can recompile corona for support xeon phi.
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2013-02-06, 13:29:11
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It won't be that easy, so there will be no support in the immediate future.
Rendering is magic.How to get minidumps for crashed/frozen 3ds Max | Sorry for short replies, brief responses = more time to develop Corona ;)

2013-02-06, 14:51:36
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kahein

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corona don't use parallelism
It optimize for multicore right
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2013-02-06, 15:02:10
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AFAIK phi acts as separate computer running linux. So I'll have to do DR first
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2013-02-06, 17:48:06
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DR ?
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2013-02-06, 18:01:24
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distributed rendering
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2013-02-07, 10:56:27
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ah yeah distributed, if you can even do that it's great !
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2013-02-07, 22:47:56
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From Monday I will probably have access to a PC with an i7-3770k. Can't wait to test some ponies.
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2013-02-07, 22:57:59
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From Monday I will probably have access to a PC with an i7-3770k. Can't wait to test some ponies.

From my experience ponies play smoothly even on low-end devices...  even on mobile devices with android for example. Flash player doesn't need much to run :)

2013-02-07, 23:41:31
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I'll try some cats, then.
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2013-02-08, 05:42:52
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AFAIK phi acts as separate computer running linux. So I'll have to do DR first

hehe a good reason to get started on it :) DR DR DR DR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need DR.

2013-02-12, 14:33:01
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Adding DR to Corona is like supercharing your naturally aspirated V8 !
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2013-02-12, 21:27:24
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Adding DR will be a great thing for very serious projects !